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Can Memory Europeanize Us? The EU Memory Framework and Contested Memories of the Yugoslav Wars in Contemporary Serbia

Bilboard in Banja Luka. Text: “We are not genocidal people. We remember. Proud Serbia and Republic of Srpska”. Image: IMAGO/Aleksandar Djorovic

By Nikola Gajić

The EU memory framework is designed as a tool for integrating new member states. However, the discrepancy between the Serbian official memory politics and the EU commemorative practices regarding the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s– in particular the Srebrenica genocide–remains high. This endangers the regional reconciliation process and the country’s Europeanization process.

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