STUDY DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS VALUES AT STAKE Southeast Europe: A Normative Marketplace? Gazela Pudar Draško, Vedran Džihić, Bojan Baća, Nilay Kilinç, Senada Šelo Šabić February 2020 EU-rope has not yet achieved creating a common European sense of»who we are«. The question is whether EU norma­tive influence ever truly existed and whether substantial nor­mative transfers to Southeast Europe(SEE) have ever been achieved. The prevailing top-down »one size fits all« approach to democratization in South­east Europe must be contested in favour of a more nuanced methodology that considers the interests, grievances, and demands of each society. We cannot have societies with true European values without creating high-quality discursive spaces where SEE citizens can socialize as active citizens. We need to build a democracy of informed and engaged citizens that do not exclude each other.