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The bloody escalation in northern Kosovo casts a bad light on the mediation efforts of EU foreign affairs envoy Josep Borrell and his special envoy Miroslav Lajčáku. They could be forced to make a course correction.
By Stephan Israel
Serbia's President Aleksandar Vučić and Kosovo's Prime Minister Albin Kurti are to clear the way for normalization between their two countries. After Monday's meeting in Brussels, both sides are expected to sign a deal before the end of March.
By Stephan Israel
At the Western Balkans Summit in Tirana, the EU demonstrates that it is finally taking the geopolitical importance of the region seriously. In addition to a new commitment to the enlargement perspective for the six countries, there are also concrete initiatives to bind the Western Balkans more strongly to the EU.
By Stephan Israel