On Thursday, 9 February, European leaders called on Serbia and Kosovo to make urgent progress in normalising relations through the EU-facilitated dialogue led by High Representative of the Union Josep Borrell. Tensions in northern Kosovo are still high.
In its conclusions, the European Council welcomed the recent European proposal aiming to rebuild relations between the two sides “on a new and sustainable basis as a historic chance that should be seized by both parties, including with a view to realising their European perspective”.
Upon his arrival at the European Council, Mr Borrell had announced that he had called the Serbian and Kosovar leaders to return to Brussels “in a couple of weeks” in order to work seriously on this proposal. “Now, it is time to de-escalate and to work constructively”, he admonished.
In their conclusions, [European] leaders also urged both sides to implement the obligations they committed to within the framework of the dialogue—including the agreements approved in 2013 and 2015 to create an Association/Community of Serb-majority Municipalities in Kosovo—“fully and without conditions”.
See the conclusions: https://aeur.eu/f/5a9 (Original version in French by Camille-Cerise Gessant)