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Migration flows from the Western Balkans to Germany: implications and recommendations

GLOBAL BUSINESS AND FINANCE MAGAZINE
September 18, 2025
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Migration to Germany is shaping the Western Balkans for better and worse, highlighting the need for reforms to harness benefits and mitigate drawbacks. Migration has long shaped the demographic and economic realities of the Western Balkans, with Germany emerging as the primary destination for emigration. Since the 1990s, persistent emigration, combined with negative natural population […]

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Migration and regime change: Outflows follow democratic decline, inflows fuel illiberal drift

GLOBAL BUSINESS AND FINANCE MAGAZINE
May 29, 2025
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Recent years have seen a global shift towards illiberal forms of governance. Migration is often a central force in these dynamics. This column investigates the two-way interaction between international migration and political regime change. The author shows, first, that substantial immigration into politically fragile democracies can exacerbate institutional weaknesses. Second, democratic decline tends to increase […]