The paper’s Brussels-based correspondent Augustin Palokaj writes that as the prime ministers of Kosovo and Serbia are set to meet early next year in a new round of dialogue for normalization of relations, authorities in the EU are trying to view in a positive light the recent ruling of the Kosovo’s Constitutional Court on the legality of the Association/Community of Serb-majority municipalities instead of focusing on the real problem: the fact that certain parts of the agreement establishing the Association/Community are unconstitutional. As a matter of fact, says Palokaj, the Pristina-Belgrade dialogue which produced the agreement on the Association/Community has lacked transparency from its outset. “And this was intentional,” he adds. The EU, as a facilitator of the dialogue, has actually encouraged ambiguity of the process in order to help the parties to manipulate their respective public opinions, instead of truthfully informing them about the outcome of talks. “It is surprising how the EU encouraged this manipulation game and only now, after several years, admits that there should be more transparency in the dialogue,” writes Palokaj adding that the lack of transparency only made the situation much worse.