Florian Bieber

Author Ahmet Erdi Ozturk is a young associated professor of politics and international relations and Marie Curie Fellow at Coventry University and London Metropolitan University.

Although the book has only been published very recently by Edinburgh University Press, it is already being touted as an important addition to Turkey-Balkan studies.

Florian Bieber from Graz University asked what's the role of Matthew Palmer, recently appointed Special Representative of the US State Secretary for the Balkans.
"If Trump names Richard Grenell special envoy for Serbia & Kosovo, what is the role of Matthew Palmer?", Bieber wrote on Twitter.
He also added that this is "a worrying message for joint EU-US position".

Experts on the Western Balkans, as well as international law and civil society figures, took to social media to voice their concerns on Tuesday after the new European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, announced Hungary's Laszlo Trocsanyi as her proposed Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Policy.

Florian Bieber spoke for Vienna daily Kurier to say that "great" powers want to deal with the Western Balkans now.

Intellectuals, experts and organisations from the Balkans and abroad have signed an open letter calling for the rejection of proposals to resolve the Kosovo-Serbia dispute through a "border correction".

The EU will "hold out the prospect of membership" to "six Western Balkan countries," writes the Financial Times.

They are Albania, Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, but also the self-proclaimed state of Kosovo.

They are Albania, Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, but also the self-proclaimed state of Kosovo.

According to the report, the Western Balkans "loomed ever larger for the EU" as one of the main route for migrants trying to reach the EU, while "EU strategists also fear that Russia is expanding influence in a region where it has traditional allies."

Florian Bieber, a Balkan expert at the University of Graz, Austria, has compared the banned referendum on Catalonia's independence to "several Balkan cases."

Florian Bieber, a Balkan expert at the University of Graz, Austria, has compared the banned referendum on Catalonia's independence to "several Balkan cases."

Kurz, who was accused of supporting authoritarianism after appearing at an election rally for Macedonia's embattled ruling VMRO DPMNE party on Sunday, stated that he "attended the rally in my capacity as member of the European People's Party."

The European People's Party is a centre-right transnational coalition made up of other political parties.