The UK and the Western Balkans

International Relations and Defence Committee Closed Inquiry
Opened: 16 Oct 2023 Closed: 16 Feb 2024 Parliament page
This short inquiry is a follow-up to the Committee’s report The UK and the Future of the Western Balkans , published in January 2018. It also presents an opportunity to scrutinise HMG’s commitment to “step up engagement with…the Western Balkans…to boost their prosperity, security, and resilience to Russian interference”, as … Read more
5 Oral sessions
3 Letters
5 Events
Activity timeline 8 events
25 Jan
2024
Correspondence
17 Jan
2024
Oral evidence
8 Jan
2024
Correspondence
8 Jan
2024
Correspondence
13 Dec
2023
Oral evidence
6 Dec
2023
Oral evidence
29 Nov
2023
Oral evidence
25 Oct
2023
Oral evidence
Oral evidence sessions 5 sessions
17 Jan 2024
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Christian Schmidt · Office of the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina
13 Dec 2023
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Air Chief Marshal The Lord Peach GBE KCB DL, Prime Minister's Special Envoy to the Western Balkans Leo Docherty MP · Cabinet Office Victoria Billing · Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office
6 Dec 2023
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The Rt Hon The Baroness Ashton of Upholland LG GCMG · House of Lords
29 Nov 2023
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Christopher Levick · Westminster Foundation for Democracy Dr Tena Prelec · Centre for Advanced Studies Southeast Europe (CAS SEE), University of Rijeka Maja Raicevic · Women's Rights Centre (Montenegro)
25 Oct 2023
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Dr Jessie Barton Hronesova · School of Slavonic and East European Studies Ian Cliff · Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office Professor James Ker-Lindsay · The London School of Economics and Political Science Professor Jasna Dragovic-Soso · Goldsmiths College, University of London Sian MacLeod · Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office
Correspondence 3 letters
25 Jan 2024 The Chair to the Rt Hon the Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton (FCDO), House of Lords inquiry into the UK and the Western Balkans, dated 25 January 2024
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8 Jan 2024 Leo Docherty MP (FCDO), responding to a request during the Committee session on 13 December 2023 for more information on illegal migration and the UK’s relations with the countries of the Western Balkans, dated 02 January 2024
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8 Jan 2024 Chris Levick (Regional Director, Europe & Central Asia, Westminster Foundation for Democracy) to the Chair, providing supplementary evidence and recommendations to the Western Balkans short inquiry, dated 4 January 2024
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