It is easy to criticise the European position on Kosovo, but much more difficult to say objectively what else the EU could have done. The situation was painfully simple: 90% of the population of Kosovo refused to belong to the Serbian Republic. A few years ago, Serbs and Kosovars were fighting one another in a cruel war, responsibility for which they must share. It took the West's armed intervention (sometimes itself excessive) to bring an end to the conflict. Long and patient efforts to try...