One of the main questions addressed in this book is whether the EU enlargement fatigue has resulted in broken promises leading to a “commitment fatigue” among the EU candidate states from Western Balkans. Until recently, political and business leaders from Western Balkans, almost without exception, have repeatedly highlighted their aspirations for joining the Union. The discussions about future of Europe would be incomplete, without investigating the relations between EU and Western Balkans. This book addresses academic researchers, policy makers, and higher education students.

Aleksandar Stojkov is Professor of Economics at the Iustinianus Primus Faculty of Law at Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje (North Macedonia). His interests are in international macroeconomics, public finance and data science. He is a former research fellow at CIRANO (Canada). His current project is an application of double machine learning in macroeconomics.

Thierry Warin is Professor of Data Science for Global Transformations at HEC Montreal and Principal Investigator at CIRANO (Canada). He is the former president of the International Trade and Finance Association (2020-2022) and also Researcher at CERIUM-CEUE (University of Montreal).