EU-Western Balkans Cooperation on Justice and Home Affairs Essays

This Special Issue of the ILLYRIUS, International Scientific Review, dedicated to the Jean Monnet Module “EU-Western Balkans Cooperation on Justice and Home Affairs” (EUWEB) elucidates part of the results of the first edition of the EUWEB Module that, hosted by the University of Salerno, offers a three-year specialization course on the EU Cooperation on Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) with the Western Balkans in the view of their accession to the Union. Admitted to financing by the European Commission for the period 2019-2022, the EUWEB Module provided for an in-depth and technical analysis of the JHA sector that is one of the main areas of cooperation between the EU and Western Balkans and concerns a matter of extreme political importance for the EU. In fact, in line with the EU’s ‘new approach’ to the accession process, opening chapters on judicial reform and fundamental rights (chapter 23) and on justice, freedom and security (chapter 24) have been a top priority in the negotiations with Montenegro and Serbia and now with Albania and Macedonia. It collects some of the essays of the First Edition of the Jean Monnet Module “EU-Western Balkans Cooperation on Justice and Home Affairs” (EUWEB).