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Conversation between Milena Mihajlović Denić, Programme Director of European Policy Centre - CEP Belgrade and WeBER 3.0 Team Leader and Bruno Monteiro, Senior Policy Advisor at SIGMA. Western Balkan Enablers for Reforming Public Administrations – WeBER 3.0 project is the third consecutive EU-funded grant of the largest civil society-led initiative for monitoring public administration reform (PAR) in the Western Balkans. WeBER 3.0 reinforces participatory democracy by enabling CSOs to actively engage and inclusively monitor PAR outcomes across the WB, advocating for the reforms’ consistency with EU requirements. WeBER 3.0 is implemented by six non-governmental organisations, one per each Western Balkan countries. The Centre for Public Administration Research (KDZ) Vienna is a EU-level based partner of the project. The project is supported by the European Commission and Austrian Development Agency - ADA This conversation was recorded in Belgrade, Serbia, in June 2026, as a fifth episode of the TEN TV Show. WeBER: www.par-monitor.org SIGMA, a joint initiative of the OECD and the EU, principally financed by the EU: www.sigmaweb.org

In this episode of European Talks, host Miloš Pavković (CEP Belgrade) spoke with Dimitar Bechev, Senior Fellow at Carnegie Europe and Director of the Dahrendorf Programme on Europe in a Changing World at the European Studies Centre of the University of Oxford's St Antony's College, about the stalled Belgrade-Pristina normalisation process. Drawing on CEP's Shadow Report on the Ohrid Agreement, the conversation examined why implementation has lagged so far behind political rhetoric, the role of the Association of Serb-Majority Municipalities as both obligation and obstacle, and whether the EU has the credibility and tools to break the current deadlock. Bechev offered a sober assessment of the path ahead, concluding that "managing the status quo" is more realistic than a legally binding agreement in the near term.

In this episode Fitim Gashi, Executive Director at Sbunker and Dr Marko Savković, Senior Advisor in ISAC Fund, discuss the stalled Kosovo*–Serbia dialogue, highlighting ongoing crises, low trust, and limited progress in implementing agreements. It examines the EU’s role, key political obstacles, and rising regional tensions, concluding that without stronger political will and clearer direction, meaningful normalization remains unlikely.

In this episode of #EuropeanTalks we are talking to Jeta Xharra, Country Director for Kosovo and Editor-in-Chief at BIRN., We examine the state of the Serbia–Kosovo dialogue following the 2023 Agreement and its limited implementation. From symbolic breakthroughs to stalled commitments, the discussion explores what has (and hasn’t) changed on the ground — including license plates, energy, and mutual recognition. The conversation also tackles nationalism, regional security concerns, the role of the EU and the U.S., and whether genuine normalization is possible in today’s political climate.