Editor After Ivanovic's assassination, Kosovo insists on extending sovereignty in the north

But the truth is that our institutions did not have such a responsibility. They have failed to extend the country's sovereignty in the northern part of Kosovo, never for ten years of independence. That part is still administered by Serbia, representing a large, impregnable stone that can lead to the country's eventual division. The cause of this unforgivable failure is ignorance and the concentration of heels only in the growth of party forces, by local institutional leaders.

The late Oliver Ivanovi himself had said with his mouth several months ago that he felt threatened by gangs operating freely in the north. But neither should we. We should not assume that simply and only Serbia manages that section. No, we're dealing with an virtually unadministration space. With no one's land. Or, rather, say to a gangland that doesn't answer anyone. Of course, this is the responsibility of Serbia, but it should not be prejudged that such a thing is well thought out and precisely calculated by them. There's no logic here. Although, for the average mind, the various schemes must be reduced to as few actors as possible and in a more understandable order. Serbia, Russia, Kosovo, the EU and so on. But the truth is, large uninstituteed spaces are often created in the Balkans, from which there are various criminal gangs and informal activities.

How is that possible? May I ask a government official who's used to simple explanations. Well, it's possible because institutional logic is often intervened by various tribal and criminal logics. Gangs have the power to blackmail, threaten and kill. Tolerating the logics of uninstituteized action produces irreparable damage to societies. And with such logic, our prime minister, Ramush Haradinaj, is currently acting. Direct political action is a famous phenomenon in the still-developing, undeveloped and unconscious society for the consequences of the direct political stock. Because, ladies and gentlemen, the directness of the stock points to a lack of consistency, especially the long-term ones.

Kosovo would have to constantly express concern in Brussels about the high level of organised crime, the gangs threatening northern citizens, who had burned Ivanovic's car earlier. Kosovo would have to actively talk about the informal economy stemming from border roads in the north, which are scattered throughout Kosovo. Concern about food safety. Also to be concerned without hypocrisy for the citizens of the north themselves, living daily in fear and uncertainty about that institutional vacuum. But he didn't.

Kosovo also used the nationalist narrative in this case, only talking about displaced Albanians from that part. But it had no weight because it was a non-traditional, and ignored by Brussels. We also had a large number of Serbs who were displaced from various settlements in Kosovo. This terrible division in HINA/they still pulses into our institutional logic.

In response to the uninstituted spheres of power, in dealing with gangs, Kosovo and Serbia cannot be hostile countries. That's because both are states, and as long as they are states, both are essentially opposed to gangs, with the uninstituteized spheres of power, different moral and national narravities. The gangs, here and there, have little significance about their ideological affiliation or the flag on which they are wrapped, should in no way be legitimized. And it shouldn't be within the logic of HINA/they'll include gangs and criminals.

Ivanovic's murder would have to be used by Kosovo as an argument more to extend the country's sovereignty to northern Kosovo. Kosovo's borders are also accepted by Serbia, though it still claims our country belongs to it. However, it must be repeated, that Serbia accepts Kosovo's current borders. So there's no point in our side being silent about the north. And accept absurd consensus for that part from people in Brussels who have no idea of the problem. The establishment of institutions in the country's north is an easy issue to argue with, without even mentioning Kosovo's independence. With simple institutional logic. And right here, Kosovo should be overly persistent.

A country's territorial sovereignty is important, but not as important as that, it is also the sovereignty of this institutional logic. Any breach of this logic, as is currently happening in Kosovo, leads to the crushing of our state's idea.

Clearly, the EU has its shortcomings, but it is far from the most successful international project that has ever worked. And Kosovo should follow the path towards the EU, not through tribal politicians like Haradinaj and Thaci. Kosovo should cultivate institutionalisation of constitutionalism, more difficult to apply, but would undoubtedly give much greater impetus to the EU. And the EU is very institutionalized, I believe this is known by our leaders who repeatedly repeat that they are following the Euro-Atlantic path.

No, the truth is that Kosovo is not following the Atlantic path. A large part of Kosovo's citizens who enjoyed Ivanovic's murder also have no idea what it means to enter the EU. In the first place, freedom and human rights should be respected. Also, religious perception of man should be taken away from the mind: man is what he is, a consistent clue. Even if the late Ivanovic committed war crimes, justice would have to be taken over. Law institutions. And besides, people shouldn't be represented only innocency before they are judged differently from the relevant institutions, but also presumptions of innocence when they are tried and carry the sentence for eventual crimes. Oliver Ivanov was a loyal Serb to the state of Kosovo. Among the rare. And if we are interested in not doing ethnic cleansing, then we would have to cultivate relations with such Serbs at the expense of de-structive Serbs. If we are interested in the integration of the Serb community in Kosovo, and this is one of the pillars of our independence, then we should not make such naive exceptions.

A day before Ivanovi was killed, Kadri Wessel declared that “would not stop until Nis” addressing Serbia. Ramush Haradinaj's brother, Dauti, when the first was being held at The Hague had declared: “If Ramush is extradited, there will be no Serb in Kosovo”.

This logic is not institutional. That's gang logic. And this road does not lead to the EU at all, but towards a permanent spin in the closed cycle of history, towards a permanent impasse in the Balkans.