If Kosovo makes practical moves towards unification with Albania, the government in Belgrade will come under strong domestic pressure to stop the process.
Biden must work within the parameters of this new reality – not the one that existed in the 1990s when Biden formed his views about the Balkans. But has the strategic logic changed?
Many of the region’s politicians are now beginning to wonder out loud – and often opportunistically – just what the benefits of a European future really are.
It is
urgently necessary to mobilise, not only against the existing form of
negotiations between Kosovo and Serbia, but also against the eventual agreement,
and possible result of, the present negotiations.
