Dialogue Under Mogherini’s Mandate Has Failed

Daily Koha Ditore reports on its front page that a final settlement between Kosovo and Serbia, under the mandate of EU High Representative Federica Mogherini, is not on the horizon.

Political commentators in Pristina argue that, despite optimistic statements by Mogherini and other EU officials, that an agreement between the two sides could be reached by the middle of this year, this is not very likely.

Political analyst Behlul Beqaj told the paper on Sunday: “the normalization of relations between Serbs and Albanians cannot be achieved with personal objectives. Hashim Thaci believed he could be saved from The Hague, Mogherini believed she could win the Nobel Prize, and Aleksandar Vucic believed he would become more important and successful than Milosevic”.

Ramush Tahiri, a political analyst, said “Mogherini has done her job” and that the approach toward the Kosovo — Serbia dialogue will be known after the new elections in the EU. Tahiri further argued that dialogue will not resume before September, “because there has been a clash in Kosovo”.