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Introduction JOURNAL OF BALKAN AND NEAR EASTERN STUDIES 2021, VOL. 23, NO. 1, 11–14 https://doi.org/10.1080/19448953.2020.1852005 Jovo Ateljevic and Shampa Roy-Mukherjee a b University of Banja Luka; University of East London Strictly speaking, the economies of Central, Eastern Europe and the Balkans (CEEB) are no longer ‘transition’ economies, even though the process has never been com- pleted in a number of countries for various reasons. Most of these countries are by now full-fledged market economies operating under the guidance and surveillance of Washington and Brussels, whether members of the Eurozone or not. As such, they are recipients of all policy directives and austerity measures streamlining them to the standards required to make them more tuned with the new treaties of the EU promulgated after the global financial crisis, such as the Fiscal Compact and the European Semester programme. In a sense, the so-called ‘transition’ period was short-lived and ‘democracy’, if it ever existed in the real sense of the word, was also short-lived. CEEB economies seem to be converging with the rest of the European periphery, such as Portugal, Italy and Greece, in an environment of economic stagnation and slump and subjected to severe austerity and bondage in the wake of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Taylor & Francis

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JOURNAL OF BALKAN AND NEAR EASTERN STUDIES 2021, VOL. 23, NO. 1, 11–14 https://doi.org/10.1080/19448953.2020.1852005 Jovo Ateljevic and Shampa Roy-Mukherjee a b University of Banja Luka; University of East London Strictly speaking, the economies of Central, Eastern Europe and the Balkans (CEEB) are no longer ‘transition’ economies, even though the process has never been com- pleted in a number of countries for various reasons. Most of these countries are by now full-fledged...
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JOURNAL OF BALKAN AND NEAR EASTERN STUDIES 2021, VOL. 23, NO. 1, 11–14 https://doi.org/10.1080/19448953.2020.1852005 Jovo Ateljevic and Shampa Roy-Mukherjee a b University of Banja Luka; University of East London Strictly speaking, the economies of Central, Eastern Europe and the Balkans (CEEB) are no longer ‘transition’ economies, even though the process has never been com- pleted in a number of countries for various reasons. Most of these countries are by now full-fledged market economies operating under the guidance and surveillance of Washington and Brussels, whether members of the Eurozone or not. As such, they are recipients of all policy directives and austerity measures streamlining them to the standards required to make them more tuned with the new treaties of the EU promulgated after the global financial crisis, such as the Fiscal Compact and the European Semester programme. In a sense, the so-called ‘transition’ period was short-lived and ‘democracy’, if it ever existed in the real sense of the word, was also short-lived. CEEB economies seem to be converging with the rest of the European periphery, such as Portugal, Italy and Greece, in an environment of economic stagnation and slump and subjected to severe austerity and bondage in the wake of

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