North Macedonia

In the sixth episode of Henrik Enderlein Fellow Besa Shahini’s podcast miniseries exploring the EU accession process in the Western Balkans and the lessons for EU enlargement policy, she talks to Wouter Zweers, research fellow at Clingendael's EU & Global Affairs Unit, and Lura Pollozhani, researcher at the University of Graz, about North Macedonia’s troubled path towards EU accession: Once considered a front-runner, the country lost its reform momentum due to the continuous blocking of its road towards EU accession.