Kosovo-Serbia Deal – Saving Faces or Saving Borders (Balkan Insight)
By: Gezim Krasniqi
The contradictory reactions to proposals to resolve the Kosovo issue through border changes has exposed the international community’s confusion over what its priorities are.
Recent announcements by the presidents of Serbia and Kosovo, that they are considering border changes to reach a historic peace settlement, have sent shockwaves across the region.
Speaking at the Alpbach forum in Austria, Serbia’s President, Aleksandar Vucic, and Kosovo’s Hashim Thaci emphasized the need to reach a compromise solution that will solve the Kosovo issue through some sort of border adjustment or demarcation, and called on the European Union to support these efforts.