Thus The Wall Street Journal today. “After Ukraine, EU looks for influence in areas like the Balkans,” explains the newspaper. Serbia’s foreign minister Ivica Dačić is in the picture accompanying the article, but he is wrongly called the country’s prime minister. The prime minister Aleksandar Vučić is also in the picture, but behind Dačić. The rest of the article is equally as confused. Anyhow, the European Union’s foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini and the commissioner in charge of enlargement Johannes Hahn are focusing on the Balkans as of late. Slovenia and Croatia are in the European Union already, the article claims even though Slovenia is not really a part of the region. Serbia and Montenegro have started accession talks, while Macedonia and Albania are in pre-negotiation “candidate” status. Bosnia and Kosovo are in limbo, though. Mogherini and Hahn have visited Bosnia recently, but the article offers little of substance about the visit. Kosovo is mentioned only once in the article, and only in passing. It is clear that the Union could be of great help in bringing the fraught region into the fold, but it is also clear that both money and brains will be needed to achieve anything worth mentioning. According to the article, the Union has earmarked close to four-billion euros for the Balkans. Good news. But the brains seem to be missing. The main focus of the rest of the article is Vladimir Putin once again. His recent visit to Serbia alerted the Union officials that something needed doing. Congratulations! And that is about all that one can learn for the article. Slim pickings, to be sure. The first thing that the Union will need doing is getting to learn about the Balkans from a few experts around the globe. It is high time, too.