Mr. Holger Haibach, Head of the country office of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation for Croatia and Slovenia, participated in the eighth edition of the annual conference on the Western Balkans in Budapest, from March 12th to 13th, 2024. Mr. Haibach reported during a panel discussion on the demographic challenges in Croatia and Slovenia as well as in the Western Balkan states. The forum was organized by the Hungarian Institute of Foreign Affairs (MKI) and the Office of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Hungary. Numerous experts and high-ranking politicians from the region discussed at the forum topics such as energy security and European integration of Hungary and the Western Balkans, coping demographic challenges, and the position of the Western Balkans in international politics.