Security, strategy and skullduggery: Public opinion in the Balkans

Edited version of my presentation to the International Democracy Union Forum in Zagreb on 30 April.

I hope to help set the scene for our Forum with some polling conducted throughout the Balkans and the wider region, completed earlier this month. I surveyed more than 10,000 people in 11 countries: Albania, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia and Turkey. We have looked domestic priorities, confidence in democracy, foreign interference and disinformation, and of course defence and security and the competing alliances that come face to face in this fascinating and critical part of the world.