
Can Europe help the Balkans keep its young emigrants?
High emigration rates are doing massive damage to the prospects of the western Balkans—would a stronger EU perspective reverse this outflow?
Author profile
Alida Vračić is director of the Sarajevo-based think tank Populari and a visiting fellow of the European Council of Foreign Relations in Berlin. She is also a non-resident fellow of the Europe’s Futures programme of the Institute of Human Sciences and ERSTE Foundation in Vienna.

High emigration rates are doing massive damage to the prospects of the western Balkans—would a stronger EU perspective reverse this outflow?