By: Tina Prelec
The EU began 2018 vowing to focus on strengthening the rule of law in the Balkans – but attempts to speed up an agreement between Serbia and Kosovo overshadowed this and helped raise tensions to a worrying level.
With a multi-front crisis between Belgrade and Pristina in full swing, and with the EU spokeswoman, Maja Kocijancic, saying that there is no timeline set for the next encounter between the two sides in Brussels, many are starting to wonder whether the dialogue is now effectively dead. In other words, whether the European Union is still interested in this issue.
It is my contention that, if anything, the EU has shown too much interest in this issue, in that it has forcefully pushed it into the foreground of the accession negotiations, to the clear detriment of the whole process.
See at: http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/serbia-kosovo-dialogue-where-the-eu-went-wrong-11-27-2018
