Even the temporary shelling of Serbia was... like sanctions!

It says: Merro Base

Kosovo's prime minister has only two arguments against EU sanctions. First, they are unfair and second, which he hopes will be temporary.

The European Union and member states have started to apply sanctions in Kosovo in all areas designated by the European Commission, following the Kosovo prime minister's reluctance to implement the situation's escalation plan in the north, created by tensions that have produced its co-ordinated policy with Western allies.

So far, high and medium-level meetings with European Union officials have been suspended, delegation meetings in European institutions have been cancelled, funds of vital importance for Kosovo have been frozen, and restrictive measures are being taken and in security co-operation, such as Germany's case.

Sanctions are not something that is consensused and you have the opportunity to judge them as right or wrong. They are determined precisely that consensus and co-operation are lacking. So it's not up to Albin Kurt to judge the EU or the US, one to call the other unfair and naive.

Neither the US is naive nor the EU is unfair. They are simply in conflict with Kosovo's state policy and are showing it red lines.

Albin Kurti's second argument is that he hopes sanctions will be temporary.

To hope that they will be temporary means that you will reflect and meet the standards that the EU and the US require. Only in that sense can you say that they are temporary when there is something that depends on you.

But in terms where Albin Kurti does not reflect but calls them unfair, sanctions are not temporary.

If Kurt thinks there's gonna be a day and the US and the EU will get tired of sanctions and say “better get rid of”, he must be either evil or stupid.

To lie to militants by saying “We hope you have”, it doesn't mean you have a strategy. Hope is not a strategy, it's a superstition.

Sanctions not only do not stop, but they will be accompanied by other dramatic decisions for Kosovo if Albin Kurti enters the spiral and resistance to the West. It can be discussed until the withdrawal of the international presence in Kosovo and leaving Kosovo on the loose as a failed state.

There is nothing more eternal than temporary things. Even the bombings of temporary Serbia were, for 76 days, but changed the history of Serbia, Kosovo and the region.

I don't know what Kurt thinks when he says the sanctions against us one day will end, but it's certain, nothing will be the same when they're done. Before them it is certain that Albin Kurti will be finished. But the biggest fear is that with it, Kosovo will be severely damaged.