Reflection Forum on the run-up to the Trieste Summit on Western Balkans, Trieste (Italy)
In 2014, the Federal Chancellor of Germany launched an intergovernmental process with the countries of the Western Balkans. Its aim is to improve cooperation throughout the region and thereby reinvigorate European integration. The first conference, organised in Berlin, was followed by one in Vienna in 2015 and one in Paris in 2016. A fourth conference will be convened in Trieste, on 12 July 2017. A parallel series of conferences and meetings has been initiated by CIFE, CFA/ÖFZ, IAI and IFRI, together with other institutions, in order to encourage a European dialogue amongst think tanks and academic institutes on the Western Balkans and their European perspective.