Alejandro Esteso Pérez is a political scientist and researcher specialising in EU enlargement and Western Balkan politics. He is a 2023 Fellow at the Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group (BiEPAG) and an external lecturer on contemporary Western Balkan politics at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). He currently pursues doctoral studies at the University of Graz in Austria.
The memorandum of understanding signed on July 19 between Serbia and the EU, under the close oversight of German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, has crystallized the EU’s transactional approach...