a few seconds agoShea: Political stability in Kosovo, otherwise clear road ahead in the Euro-Atlantic integration process
Periskopi(a month ago)
(a month ago)Former senior official of NATO, Jamie Shea, estimates that activism at the US Congress over the issue of Kosovo's membership in the military alliance should be understood more as the deployment of a long-term agenda than an immediate impact. He says it keeps Kosovo in Washington's political attention and creates room for a future possibility, when conditions in Kosovo-Serbia relations and within themselves NATO be more favourable.
But, frankly, until there is political stability in Kosovo, because three sets of elections in 18 months are not a good sign... so until there is more stability after the June elections, there is not expected to be a clear way forward in the Euro-Atlantic integration process”, says Shea for Radio Free Europe.
Kosovo, in less than a month, will hold the third parliamentary elections within a period of one and a half years, as the previous two cycles failed to produce stable institutions due to a lack of consensus among political parties.
Shea also agrees that putting under pressure from non-recognition states is important, but adds that Kosovo cannot rely only on the US, stressing the need for a more balanced approach towards Europe.
Kosovo should have a more balanced lobby effort and lobby as strongly in Berlin, Paris, London or Warsaw as in Washington. Support in the United States alone may have worked in the past, in the years of BAR90, but today is no longer an effective” strategy, Shea estimates.
