On 17 May 2006, the Hungarian Europe Society organised an international workshop concerning the political and security challenges of the Western Balkans. At this event, together with the Hungarian participants, experts, politicians, journalists and senior officers of NGOs arriving from Croatia, Serbia and Montengro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia and also representatives of European institutions were expected to discuss the most fundamental issues of the future of this region with special emphasis on the perspectives of EU-accession and the question related to the peaceful coexistence of different national and ethnic groups.