Abstract:
The regional integration process is seen positively by the EU as a way to keep theBalkans on the path of development without making them immediately memberstates. EC used neo-functionalism and the spill-over effect as guiding principles in this process and it created the Energy Community of Southeast Europe. However, a newapproach is needed in order to develop this idea properly and that is the neo neo -functionalism. ECSE's course of development depends on many factors that may ormay not have positive spill-over into other areas and with that become the stepping stone of deeper regional integration.
