FAZ: How Trump intervened in Kosovo's domestic policy

The year 2020 was common everywhere, but for Kosovo, Europe's newest state, this year would have been particularly troubled even without pandemics. This is about Donald Trump interfering with Kosovo's domestic policy, writes FAZ.

Apparently pending a slight foreign policy success in the Balkans prior to the US presidential elections, Trump had already appointed his ambassador to Germany at the time, Richard Green, as his special envoy for “peace negotiations” between Serbia and Kosovo at the end of 2019. These “negociata”, which at any moment could not be said to have had something as strategy, culminated in a meeting at the White House in early September 2020.

There, Serbian President Aleksandar Vuciq and Kosovo Prime Minister Avdullah Hoti signed two separate documents with some vague statements, sometimes deliberately confused in the presence of Trump, writes the German newspaper.

It was no surprise that Trump and Grenrell celebrated their strange diplomatic policy as a historic breakthrough. The fact that the memorandums signed in Washington were so good that they were forgotten only a few days later and have produced nothing so far, nor will they, writes FAZ, among other things in the article dedicated to political developments in Kosovo during the past year.