Aiming High: A European Vision for the Dialogue Between Kosovo and Serbia
Country Kosovo
Date 9 September 2011
Author KFOS and Foreign Policy Club
Publisher Foreign Policy Club, Kosovo Foundation for Open Society
In the summer of 2010, in an effort to encourage political debate about Kosovo’s future relations with Serbia, the Kosovo Foundation for Open Society and the Foreign Policy Club started to prepare ideas for a negotiating platform to positively transform the relationship between the two countries. The platform’s key recommendation was to anchor the process of normalization of relations between Kosovo and Serbia to the respective European integration process for both countries. On 9 September 2010, the EU assumed responsibility for finding a lasting solution to the decades-old deadlock in Kosovo-Serbian relations. The UN General Assembly Resolution calling for dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia marked an important step in taking responsibility for the Kosovo problem away from the UN to where it belongs: Europe. In fact, the Resolution itself commits the EU to „achieve progress on the path to the European Union‟.