6 years from signing agreement, fail to normalise relations with Serbia

Six years after reaching the first agreement on normalising Kosovo-Serbia relations, the Kosovo Democratic Institute (KDI) estimates that lack of full implementation of this agreement has failed to meet citizens' expectations. This agreement, brokered by the European Union and signed by then Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci, and [...]
This agreement, brokered by the European Union and signed by then Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci, and Serbia's Ivica Dacic, was ratified in the Kosovo Assembly on 27 June 2013 as an international agreement. This is the first and only agreement ratified under the process of normalising relations with Serbia.
The same has not been ratified by Serbia's Assembly. Serbia's Constitutional Court had even singled out the Brussels Agreement as political and illegal, so it had refused to examine its constitutionality.
The <x0-> historical agreement” was an EU attempt to solve problems between the two states, the Voice newspaper writes. Its 15 points were aimed at regulating issues that are related to the Association/Unition of the Serb Majority municipalities, integrating security and justice structures, organising local elections in Kosovo's four northern municipalities, energy, telecommunication and relevant European routes.











