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Talk of Shifting Kosovo’s Borders Sparks Concern (Spiegel)

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Twenty years after the end of NATO’s intervention in the Balkans, the relationship between Serbia and its former province of Kosovo remains tense. Senior figures are talking about shifting Kosovar borders, setting a potentially dangerous precedent.

These days, his statesman’s uniform fits the former rebel commander perfectly: bespoke shoes, dark suit, golden cuff links. Flanked by reverent-looking toadies, Ramush Haradinaj recently sat down for an interview in Pristina, at the seat of the Kosovo government.

If it weren’t for Haradinaj and his comrades, Europe’s youngest republic might not exist. In the nineties, at the fiercest phase of the ethnic Albanian revolt against the Serbian occupiers in Kosovo, he commanded part of the Kosovo Liberation Army, a paramilitary organization known by its Albanian initials UCK. Haradinaj’s nom de guerre was “Smajl.” Today he is the head of government in a country searching for its place in Europe.

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