This episode is produced by the REUNIR Horizon Europe Project. Host Madalina Dobrescu welcomes Jelena Pejić Nikić, senior research at the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP) and a PhD candidate at the University of Belgrade. They discuss the socioeconomic threats posed by external actors in the EU's candidate countries in the Western Balkans, and how the EU can help strengthen socioeconomic resilience in these countries.

This episode is produced by the REUNIR Horizon Europe Project. Host Madalina Dobrescu welcomes Tinatin Akhvlediani, research fellow at the EU foreign policy unit at CEPS and a visiting professor at the College of Europe and the International School of Economics at Tbilisi State University. They discuss the socioeconomic threats posed by external actors in the EU's candidate countries in the Eastern neighbourhood, and how the EU can help strengthen socioeconomic resilience in these countries.

This episode is produced by the REUNIR Horizon Europe Project. Host Madalina Dobrescu welcomes Florian Bieber, professor of Southeast European History and Politics and director of the Centre for Southeast European Studies at the University of Graz. He is also the coordinator of the Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group (BiEPAG). They discuss one of REUNIR's working papers on political threats posed by external actors in the EU's candidate countries, focusing on the strategies used by external actors to interfere in the political affairs of the candidate countries in the Western Balkans.