Centre for Southeast European Studies

A survey of Croatian high school pupils showed that less than a third of the participants consider Croatia's World War II Nazi-allied state a fascist state and over half were either undecided or unwilling to give their opinion.

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.

After ruling the country for three years as Prime Minister, Vucic will be sworn in as Serbia's new President in parliament on Wednesday.

His victory in the April 2 elections prompted some foreign politicians to congratulate him, predicting that he would contribute to regional stability and to the EU accession process.

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.

BELGRADE - Director of the Centre for Southeast European Studies at the University of Graz Florian Bieber agrees with Serbia's PM Aleksandar Vucic that the region of the Western Balkans is facing possible instability.

The causes of the current instability have nothing to do with the region, but primarily with the EU's main topic, the migrant crisis, Bieber told Politika.

BELGRADE - Director of the Centre for Southeast European Studies at the University of Graz Florian Bieber agrees with Serbia's PM Aleksandar Vucic that the region of the Western Balkans is facing possible instability.

The causes of the current instability have nothing to do with the region, but primarily with the EU's main topic, the migrant crisis, Bieber told Politika.

This is the first debate in the Balkan Forum series supported by the European Fund for the Balkans and produced in cooperation between Europarl TV from Brussels and NOVATV from Skopje.

The debate hosts MEPs Ivo Weigel, Edward Kukan and Miltijadis Kirkos, and professor and director of the Centre for Southeast European Studies at the University of Graz, Austria Florian Bieber.