Director of the IAS, prof Dragana Mitrović, PhD participated as an invited panellist in the expert seminar on EU and China investment and development policy towards the Western Balkans, entitled “The Western Balkans, the EU and China: Development perspectives of a region in Europe“, organised by the Austo-French Centre for Rapprochement in Europe, German Institute for International and Security Affairs, French Institute for International Relations, Centre international de formation europeenne and Cooperation and Development Institute in cooperation with the Istituto Affari Internazionali in Brussels on November 15, 2017. The conference was part of the pan-European Initiative “Reflection Forum on the Western Balkans” as the expert component of the “Berlin Process”. Professor Mitrovic was a panellist in Panel 1: China’s engagement in South-eastern Europe: A view from the region, but also took part in the following ones.