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EU Should Enlarge, Even Out of Despair – COMMENTARY
3 October 2024
Leaked pages from the Franco-German proposal for Kosovo and Serbia hint towards renewed inadequacies. If Brussels wants to codify itself as a security guarantor of the Western Balkans, it will have to do better than ambiguous statements and weak diplomacy.
A compromise between Kosovo and Serbia seems forever on the horizon. Yet, the current war in Ukraine and Russia’s destabilising potentials in the Balkans are certainly the driving engine of a speeded-up commitment of Paris and Berlin in the region.
Their firm engagement has rebooted more decisively than ever mediation between Pristina and Belgrade. Yet, their good purposes have not been met by a clever EU diplomatic will.
The so-called Franco-German proposal is about a deal for Kosovo’s final status sponsored by Paris and Berlin.