The paper seeks to address the issue not primarily as one of the Kosovar Albanians' 'right to self-determination', but as a challenge to Serbia to redefine its national identity and statehood in light of the impasse of its traditional national agenda, and the new opportunities that EU ...
Kosovo declared independence in 2008, a move recognised by most western nations, butBelgrade still considers its former provincean inalienable part of Serbia and issues Kosovo Serbs IDs and licence plates among other services. Serbs in Kosovo have erected barricades in protest several times in recen...
A land swap between Kosovo and Serbia could trigger a chain reaction in the Balkans, spelling the end for a number of former Yugoslav countries – and give a new reason for the US to keep troops in Europe, analysts have told RT.
The EU plan does not commit Serbia to acknowledging an independent Kosovo but it would recognise documents such as passports, diplomas and licence plates. Serbia would also not block Kosovo's membership of international bodies. A tough issue for talks on the implementation annex, where ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is disappointed Kosovo and Serbia have failed to agree on a solution to their dispute over car license plates used by the ethnic Serb minority in Kosovo, U.S. State Department spokesperson Ned Price said in a statement. Both Kosov...
Kosovo and Serbia previously agreed on the majority of the wording of the declaration, but specific words became deal-breakers. Kosovo insisted on having the wording “forcibly disappeared persons” in the declaration, while Serbia insisted on “disappeared persons” only. ...
However, he reflected that people in Serbia need to know that the membership in EU can only be realized once a solution is found for the issue of Kosovo and Metohija, Serbian southern province that unilaterally seceded in 2008, in a dialogue between Serbia and authorities in Pristina. ...
Nationalities Papers 43(1): 102-121.Beha, Adem. "Disputes over the 15-point Agreement on Normalization of Relations between Kosovo and Serbia." The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity, Vol. 43, Issue 1, 2015: 102-121
While Kosovo and Serbia reached a verbal agreement on implementing an EU-backed deal to normalise ties over the weekend, disagreements and a lack of clarity over what shape some provisions will take, remain.
He also said it was wrong of the West to focus so much on one issue when there was a broad range of agreements between Serbia and Kosovo that Belgrade had failed to honour. Kurti said one such commitment was to open the main bridge in the ethnically divided norther...