It is Kosovo’s fragile democracy that will pay the price of any deal struck by Hashim Thaci to partition the country. The EU should think twice.

“Who do I call if I want to call Europe?” former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger famously asked.

In 2009, Kissinger belatedly got his answer when the Treaty of Lisbon created the post ofHigh Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy.

But the decade since has done little to consolidate the EU’s 28 states around a coherent, united policy on Kosovo.

See at: http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/must-kosovo-pay-the-price-of-the-eu-s-mistakes--08-14-2018