Summary of the week 17

A week of big and somewhat smaller disappointments. But also a week of significant reminders. About holidays, successes, failures... A week in which we mostly looked back again. And we'll do it once more in the Summary of the Week.

Even when we don't expect much, we get very disappointed. Nobody asked us about the strategy for the European Championship, so they won't ask for the solution either. That doesn't stop us from offering one.

Even before the last match of the Serbian national team, fans were disappointed: "I would change half the team because we are generally bad," says one of the anonymous strategists from North Mitrovica. He explains: "People who don't fight for the crest, for the team, for the country, don't deserve to play for the national team."

On the field for forgetting, in the stands for remembering. And apparently, for a return. At the first next opportunity. Fans prepared to retort to the guests with "Mirdita" and waited for them all day.

Maybe it was a good day for fan lessons, but not for the festival. This time, therefore, without "Mirdita."

Director Danilo Beckovic says we didn't need the European Championship or the Serbian-Albanian festival to know the situation is "tense."

"This is actually a consequence of the constant heating up of the political situation in the former Yugoslavia," says Beckovic.

Not much was expected from the match in Brussels either. It ended without a result and without a winner. Although, judging by the demands presented, not everyone played to win, but for the audience. The domestic one.

"Prime Minister Kurti presented three new demands, which he says are conditions for continuing the dialogue," summarized High Representative Josep Borrell at this week's Brussels meeting.

Talks without strategy, mandates without end. And while there are no new chances for returnees from Germany, for others, like Miroslav Lajcak, overtime has begun. Experts say, with no chance of changing the result even in stoppage time.

"There is no greater political significance here. It's more of a technical matter. He practically remains to hand over authority to his successor," explains Milica Rakic Andric from the New Social Initiative for Kosovo Online.

Certainly more than politics. For many, Vidovdan is destiny and essence. On the biggest Serbian holiday, however, without Serbian symbols.

"It's terrible that we have to hide what we wear, whether we carry our state's symbols, that we have to hide if we wear something, that we can't raise the flag here where Miloš gave his life," says one of the many visitors to Gazimestan.

Historians understand the anger of those who had to mark Vidovdan according to special rules set by Pristina.

"Vidovdan is a watershed that teaches Serbs about what was and directs them to what they need to know. To what will be," says historian Luka Jovanovic.

We have learned what was. What will be is determined elsewhere. Despite different cheering, Brussels this week got new people who will, by all accounts, lead old politics.