Europe on the Move. A Commentary

Abstract

Erhard Busek, former special coordinator of the Stability Pact for Southeastern Europe, assesses the present European crises—the refugee crisis, the financial crisis, the Greek crisis, the Ukrainian crisis, the Brexit crisis—from a Southeast European perspective, and from the perspective of one who has worked substantively toward the stabilization of the postwar societies of the successor states of Yugoslavia in the 2000s. This stabilization process has been a long and arduous task, albeit one that has borne fruit in spite of all the remaining fragilities. It would be a great mistake to forfeit what has been achieved, and not to take the achievement as a lesson for meeting the present challenges: developing a real conflict and crisis management process is a worthwhile endeavor.