DEVELOPMENTAL OBJECTIVES OF THE WESTERN BALKAN IN THE CONTEXT OF ITS FASTER INTEGRATION INTO EUROPEAN UNION
EU experts had a particular objective classifying a part of geo area of the South East Europe into Western Balkan region. The point is about a specific part of European economic and political area of cca 265 000 km2 with approximately 25 million inhabitants, where political actors still have neither defined strategy nor the future vision. That is one of the reasons due to which this part of the continent was given another waiting period for inclusion into EU. The objective of this paper is to, first of all, on the basis of available facts, recognise developmental units of the Western Balkan (low development, slowed transition, insufficient FDI influx, demographic problems, etc.), and analyse in detail the prior developmental aims in Western Balkan ( macro economic stability, liberalization, economy restructuring, institution building, integration into globalizational processes, etc.) and broader European context (European looses and gains due to the faster or moderate development of this part of Euro region). In the end, it wil,l of course, be necessary to establish the real possibilities and optimal realization of such defined developmental objectives in the time that comes.