6 minutes agoJudah: The year 2019 is lost for dialogue
Periskopi(7 years ago)
(7 years ago)The multi-pronounced “window of possibilities”, which by the end of 2019 has reached a final agreement between Kosovo and Serbia, seems to have been finally closed. Even though the push for the achievement of historical “compromism” in recent months has come from both Brussels and Washington, reality on the ground is clearly speaking differently. So [...]
That is how well-known Western analysts, who see this development as a consequence of the situation created in Kosovo, assess after Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj's resignation.
British journalist and author Tim Judah, who has conveyed developments in Kosovo and the region since the 1990s, says the Brussels youth dialogue is very unlikely this year. He says this conclusion is drawn from a simple estimate based on actual facts.
The simple “Matematic shows that youth dialogue is very unlikely until next year. If elections in Kosovo are held in the autumn, then likely it will take several months to create the new Government, when Serbia will enter the election period”, Judah says of “Chrene”. So he adds, even if the tariff issue was removed from the negotiating table, I don't see anything that could happen for a very long time”.
He calls this development bad news, while failing beats the absence of a visionary leadership.
In the general aspect of anything you might think about changing borders and so on, losing time is bad news. It has been 20 years since the end of the war, and Kosovo is still trapped by its legacy. By 1965 the relationship between France and Germany had been transformed in unimaginable ways for the previous generations. To a large extent, this was a matter of visionary leadership. Do we have this here? I don't think we have the”, says Judah.
