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Besides positive developments in the region, which are in particular connected with Croatia’s finalization of negotiations with EU on membership and encouraging signals being sent by the Presidents of Croatia and Serbia in the process of reconciliation, heavy impasses in regional peace-building still remain to be coped with. Unfinished state-building, respectively state weakness in Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) and Kosovo, fragile interethnic relations in Macedonia as well as rising tensions inside the Islamic community in the Serbian region of Sandžak remind the regional actors and the Euro-Atlantic community that more efforts are necessary to achieve positive peace in this post-war area.