The European Union could commit a major strategic blunder in its immediate neighbourhood with the appointment, expected in March, of Slovak foreign minister Miroslav Lajčák to lead the negotiations between Serbia and Kosovo on a final normalisation agreement.
His precise capacity – whether as a special envoy in charge of the negotiations only or for the whole Western Balkans, or as a kind of all-Western Balkans EU special representative – remains unclear.
What is clear is that t...
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Already a member? Login hereToby Vogel and Bodo Weber are senior associates of the Democratization Policy Council, based in Brussels and Berlin, respectively.
Toby Vogel and Bodo Weber are senior associates of the Democratization Policy Council, based in Brussels and Berlin, respectively.