The freedom to seek a better life - migration and the EU

Nous sommes tous des immigrés, il n'y a que le lieu de naissance qui change.

We are all immigrants. It's just our birthplaces that change. [anonymous, from evene.fr]

A l'immigration subie, je préfère l'immigration choisie.

I prefer chosen migration to imposed migration. [Nicolas Sarkozy, in an interview with Le Figaro, January 2005]

A main source of frustration when exploring policy-making at the EU level is the feeling that the main stakeholders are often left out of the debate. Decisions are elite-driven, policy analysis takes into account the substance of directives and regulations, but only briefly glosses by the consequences on the people they affect.

Why was Sarajevo the Jerusalem of Europe?

Why did it work? Why did Christians, Jews and Muslims live there peacefully for such a long time?

Nobody in my class answered my question. (Top: Srebrenica massacre commemoration in Sarajevo - summer 2007.)

Let me put this into context: we are talking about conditionality, EU accession as an incentive for "Western Balkans" to reform their justice systems and to bring war criminals to justice and models of democratization. Which models of democratization should be adopted in the region?