Moderator: Zoran Nechev

Zoran Nechev specialises in EU-Western Balkans relations and external dimensions of justice and home affairs. He heads the Center for EU integration of the Institute for Democracy “Societas Civilis” Skopje, a Macedonian think tank organisation devoted to research and capacity-building in matters related to EU in general, and the enlargement process more specifically. Since 2014, he has been an academic guest at the Center for International and Comparative Studies, ETH Zürich examining the effects of EU’s conditionality policy on rule of law in the Western Balkans. As a Senior Associate Fellow at the EUISS he was involved in activities related to the ‘Global Strategy’, as well as justice and home affairs related to the Western Balkans.