This paper addresses the legal and economic aspects of the integration of the countries of South Eastern Europe into the European Union, and its political and legal framework is the stabilization and association process. This process is adapted to the circumstances of each of the Western Balkan countries, and in this paper it is analyzed on the case of Bosnia and Herzegovina. On the other hand, the economic integration of these countries into the European Union takes place at the regional level, notably through the creation of a free trade agreement (CEFTA), which also, in addition to economic, has the political dimensions in terms of normalization of relations between the member states, but also the integration in a single market before joining the common, free EU market.
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