EU-WESTERN BALKANS ? BETWEEN THE ITINERANT AND MORE INCLUSIVE ECONOMIC DIPLOMACY AND THE DWELLINGS OF PREFERENTIAL FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS

EU has been undertaking a vivid economic diplomacy based on the coupling of trade relations, with the objectification of institutional reform in the countries, pertaining to the Western Balkan region. However, as we will show across this article, EU`s approach has been creating abnormalities in development, as far as the regional countries are concerned, by not accounting the specificities of their domestic surroundings and by separating the different acknowledgements from the wider picture. The article is divided into three parts: the first one introduces the outwit of economic diplomacy through the reflection of the Preferential Trade Agrements and the second one recommends the view under which EU-Western Balkans Preferential Free Trade Agreements discharge the conspicous likeness of Europeanisation. The third part introduces a privy conspectus of how the nexus economy and security is limned in the case of the approach of the European Union towards the Western Balkans. Last but not least, the closing arguments will rely upon the cursory appreciation of how the EU-Western Balkan connection can be intercepted in the future.