Compilation of the week

A lot of déjà vu, but also a premiere. The decision of the Council of Europe, incomparable to anything in practice, has provoked strong reactions. As expected, they differ in Belgrade and Pristina. On the other hand, another meeting in Brussels ended without reactions and results. While we await the new one, in the middle of next week, let's summarize this one in the Compilation of the week.

"The last week of March, a premiere, but it feels like we've already seen this movie. Distrust, problems, meetings, and the path to a solution still seem too far. These distances are visible, says the chief Pristina negotiator Besnik Bislimi, even when the delegations meet up close.

"These proposals are still too far apart," Bislimi said, announcing a new visit to Brussels next week.

If it wants to, the European Union will need to assess and bring the proposals closer as soon as possible, because for some, time and mandates are running out. And it seems there won't be any reruns.

"The European Union either doesn't have or doesn't want to reach a solution," Petar Petkovic, Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija, said summarizing Brussels' progress in the dialogue so far.

When a solution cannot be reached in the region, or even in Europe, suggestions come from another continent. Thus, the US Ambassador to Kosovo, Jeffrey Hovenier, has some suggestions.

"Our vision is a free and peaceful Europe, which includes Kosovo," Hovenier said, explaining what the short-term and long-term goals were of the decision to bomb made 25 years ago.

Brussels is not the only one lowering the barriers this week. Both in premiere and in rerun.

After the first requested, announced, but unheld session of the UN Security Council on the bombing of Yugoslavia, Serbia's Foreign Minister, by all accounts, was not surprised.

"It's cynical that today we can't even speak about it in the Security Council, and 25 years ago they didn't even ask if they were going to bomb us," Dacic said in New York.

Strasbourg, on the other hand, embraces Kosovo. A new step towards the Council of Europe has been taken.

In Pristina, understandably, there are high expectations.

"This, as predicted by the bodies of the Council of Europe, will promote the development of human rights, the development of democracy in Kosovo," Constitutional Law Professor Mazllum Baraliu commented.

Due to this reverse order in the development of human rights, as well as the blank trust, many are skeptical.

"Once again, the situation shows that precedents are being set for Kosovo, that decisions are being made that are completely unprecedented and incomparable to previous situations," political scientist Ognjen Gogic says.

Although appearing before the global audience for the first time, such a decision, they say in Pristina, is correct and just. Kosovo officials guarantee this with a letter to those who have never had doubts before.