Serbia is no closer to consensus on Kosovo nine months after Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic called a series of roundtable discussions on relations with the country’s former southern province. Critics are sceptical of Vucic’s soul-searching.
When Serbia’s president, Aleksandar Vucic, announced a national dialogue on Kosovo in July 2017, he vowed to spare future generations of Serbs the burden of having to resolve relations with the country’s majority-Albanian former province.
But 17 roundtable discussions have only served to expose the depth of disagreement within Serbian society.
Critics say the initiative is a charade, an exercise in obfuscation as Serbia’s government tries to come to terms with the difficult decisions it will have to take on Kosovo if Belgrade is to make progress on the path to European Union membership.
