Weber: Current crisis in the north, deepest since the start of dialogue

German analyst Bodo Weber estimates that the situation of recent months in northern Kosovo is the worst since the launch of the dialogue process in 2011.

The senior member of the Council of Democratic Policy in Berlin stresses that all of this has happened at a time of negotiations on agreement between Kosovo and Serbia.

“This is the deepest crisis in political dialogue since its founding in 2011 and Kosovo-Serbia relations, perhaps even since serious barricades, violence and clashes between Serbian protesters or organised gangs, and KFOR in the summer of 2011”, Webster said in an interview for Review Democracy.

The last “we have seen the new phase of negotiations for the so-called French/EU initiative, which led to its complication. So within this year we've seen something we've never seen, in a negative sense, throughout the history of political dialogue”.

Weber has said the dialogue process has had some clear principles but also red lines.

For example, no more border changes discussed. That was de facto a precondition, expressed as the declaration of then Chancellor Merkel, to enter those” negotiations, he added. /Klan Kosova