Serbia and Kosovo: EU strategy failed

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.

The day after the bloody escalation in northern Kosovo, Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić received the Russian ambassador in Belgrade. He had informed Vladimir Putin’s envoy that „ethnic cleansing“ was being carried out „in Kosovo“, Vučić wrote on Instagram to the handshake picture. Not a word on the social media platform about the attack by heavily armed paramilitaries on the Kosovo police, presumably directed from Belgrade.

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