Jovanovic: The Brussels agreement was disavowed because of the CSM; the same can happen with the European plan

The Brussels agreement had been disapproved due to the non-implementation of the provision on the formation of the Community of Serb-majority Municipalities, and without the CSM a similar fate might befall the Franco-German plan, journalist and foreign policy commentator Milovan Jovanovic assessed, Nova reports.

Speaking about the Franco-German proposal on Kosovo, Jovanovic said that it was a proposal for an Agreement on the road to normalization of relations between Kosovo and Serbia, which had the support of the EU and the US, and which had been in the works since the fall of 2022 but had not been signed yet.

"It is about an attempt to update the Brussels Agreement, which would enable faster movement towards EU membership, without any formal obligation of Belgrade to recognize the independence of Kosovo. The most important article of the agreement is the last one, in which it is stated that "both parties undertake to respect the roadmap for implementation attached to this agreement," Jovanovic said.

He said that the road map existed, but was still under construction, with no concrete details known to the general public.

The goal, he says, is to continue the dialogue process, with increased dynamics and in new negotiation coordinates, but the problem, he points out, is that the international community changes the rules of the game on the fly with the desire to reach some sort of solution.

"Realistically, I think we are far from that," he said and assessed that the CSM would be the most negotiated point and the most difficult to reach an agreement on.

"First of all, we see strong pressure from the US that the CSM must be implemented urgently, but Kurti still refuses to do so. The entire Brussels Agreement was practically disavowed due to the non-implementation of the provision on the CSM. A similar fate may befall the Franco-German plan," Jovanovic said.

When asked how he saw the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the work of High Representative Christian Schmidt, Jovanovic says that Schmidt is "the worst high representative that Bosnia and Herzegovina has had".

"Of the eight so far, he is without a doubt the worst high representative. This is a man who is deeply compromised, a man who does not know his way around, who does not know what he is doing, a man who makes very bad moves, disrupting the multi-ethnic, multi-citizen Bosnia and Herzegovina. Christian Schmidt, the facts say, openly favors the Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Dragan Covic. He is under the influence of official Zagreb, which they do not hide. They boast that under their pressure, lobbying, and suggestions, Schmidt changed the electoral law in favor of Bosnian Croats on election night," Jovanovic said.

Regarding the upcoming elections in Montenegro, Jovanovic said that all relevant research showed that the second round was inevitable and that it was realistic that the current president Milo Djukanovic would enter the second round, but that it was uncertain and most interesting who would be his opponent.

"Is it the leader of the Democratic Front, Andrija Mandic, or the deputy president of the Europe Now party, Jakov Milatovic? There will be an uncertain race to the very end. The leader of the Democratic Montenegro party, Aleksa Becic, has no chance of being in the second round," Jovanovic said.