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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...

Compromise sought on how reference should be made to Kosovo in international meetings. Negotiators from Serbia and Kosovo are expected to meet in Brussels in the coming weeks...

Germany is threatening to stop Serbia being made a formal candidate for membership of the European Union at next week's European Council. The leaders of the 27 member states...

Negotiations on practical matters to resume in September, chief mediator says. The European Union has cancelled talks between Serbia and Kosovo that were scheduled to take...

Caretaker EU special representative named. Disagreements between European Union member states have prevented the appointment of an EU special representative (EUSR) for...

Dutch refuse to give green light for membership talks and say there will be no fast-track without better war-crime co-operation. Serbia's expectation of a fast track to...

Serbia wants talks on Kosovo's status Dutch could veto EU membership talks. Differences are emerging between the European Union and Serbia about the meaning of a joint...

Belgian presidency to push for Serbia to be granted EU candidate status after Serbia softens its language on Kosovo. EU foreign ministers today agreed that Serbia's...

Belgrade drops controversial language from draft UN resolution. Boris Tadić, the president of Serbia, has agreed to drop language challenging Kosovo's independence from a...

Despite Russian opposition in the UN Security Council, the UN presses ahead with the transfer of assets and responsibility in Kosovo to the EU. UN administrators has...

The EU has taken a calculated gamble in taking its first contractual step with Serbia. It might just work. The Stabilisation and Association Agreement signed between the EU...

A man people hire if they need someone who can get results under taxing conditions. Pieter Feith may be the international community's top trouble-shooter in Kosovo, but even...

The EU could probably not do much to prevent Kosovo's independence. The status issue was decided long ago. What was not clear was the timing of the declaration, the exact...

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 foreign ministers of the EU will formally launch the EU's much-delayed peacekeeping mission to Chad when they meet in Brussels next Monday (28 January), but defer a...

Last week's (14 December) EU summit was a strange affair. Presidents and prime ministers queued up to praise the EU for maintaining its unity on tricky issues ranging from...

The EU is ready to dispatch hundreds of police and judicial experts to Kosovo as soon as the province declares independence in the coming weeks, according to diplomats. The...

The UN Security Council will debate the question of Kosovo's final status next Wednesday (19 December) but without taking any decisions, according to EU and UN diplomats....

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...

Russia's ban on meat imports from Poland will remain in place until Poland reconsiders a Russian offer made in April, Russia's ambassador to the EU Vladimir Chizhov said...