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Diplomats fear nationalist backlash in Serbia. Serbia is expected to resume talks with Kosovo in Brussels next week in a bid to gain official recognition as a candidate for...

EU mediator blames Serbs for breakdown of talks, while Serbs say they will not talk while there is violence. EU-mediated talks between Serbia and Kosovo have collapsed in...

The EU's diplomatic mediation between Kosovo and Serbia does little to address the underlying conflict. The deadly violence that flared at Kosovo's border with Serbia last...

Kosovo occupies a singular spot in the EU's enlargement policy. The European Commission talks to the government in Pristina as if it were any other would-be member of the...

Stefan Fule, the European commissioner for enlargement, says that progress on joining the EU is in the hands of the applicant countries themselves. This autumn, several...

The ICJ's opinion leaves Romania, Slovakia and Spain with a responsibility to decide whether to reject or accept a Kosovar state. The International Court of Justice (ICJ)...

An advisory opinion by the International Court of Justice on the legality of Kosovo's independence could give new momentum to plans to partition. The International Court of...

Ruling likely to trigger further recognitions of former Serbian province Kosovo's declaration of independence from Serbia on 17 February 2008 did not violate international...

Like the UN's mission before it, Eulex has yet to bring to book those involved in politically motivated crimes in Kosovo. When it comes to international engagement with...

A lack of consensus among the EU's member states about Kosovo's status is hindering progress in the justice system. When Kosovo declared independence in February 2008, there...

Eulex has helped Kosovo, but the mission itself needs more support from the EU. Last December, the EU launched the biggest mission in the history of the European Security...

The plight of Roma forced to return to Kosovo. When it comes to Kosovo, EU states seem to agree on one thing – that it is time for those who fled war and persecution to go...

The EU has pursued an odd way to try and start the healing process in the former Yugoslavia. Your analysis of Kosovo is balanced and honest but short on context (‘An...

Eulex has the right mandate – to remove the flaws in Kosovo's rule of law. It now needs the chance to pursue it. Your article ‘Flawed tactics in the Balkans' (20-26...

Macedonia and Montenegro support Kosovo's statehood, prompting Serbia to expel Montenegro's ambassador. Two former Yugoslav republics, Macedonia and Montenegro, yesterday...

Why is the west giving Kosovo independence when it refuses to recognise Transdniestria, South Ossetia and Abkhazia? These three places are nominally independent – at least...

I am proud to be Spanish, at a time when the Spanish government has not turned Spain into a rogue state, unlike other European governments which have violated international...

The EU is at pains to offer Kosovo a credible chance to join the Union, after five member states pledged not to recognise its unilateral decision to break away from Serbia...

With Kosovo widely expected to declare its independence this Sunday (17 February), the EU is poised to put in place an international presence in the country, under a plan for...

The diplomatic end-game over the final status of Kosovo will begin on Monday (10 December), when diplomats from the six-member Contact Group will present their report to Ban...