Less: Serbia can pay salaries and pensions in euros to Serbs in Kosovo

Professor at the Center for Geopolitics at the University of Cambridge, Timothy Less, tells Kosovo Online that he does not believe that the ban on the dinar in Kosovo fundamentally jeopardizes the position of Serbs living in Kosovo, who, he believes, can use euros and continue to live their lives more or less as before, provided that Serbia is "willing to finance the parallel institutions and pay pensions and welfare in euros."

"This issue is not so much the practical one, because I think there is a solution; it is more a matter of Serb resentment to accept Kosovo's move, which on a symbolic level sends a message that Kosovo is not a part of Serbia, and the proof of this is that Kosovo does not use the dinar, which is of course not something that Serbs accept, particularly not the Serbs living in northern Kosovo who want to remain part of Serbia and still see themselves as part of Serbia," Less says.

He points out that the US and Europeans have clearly stated their position that they do not accept the unilateral imposition of the euro and the effective ban on the use of the dinar in everyday financial transactions and have instead told Kosovo that it must negotiate this within the dialogue mediated by the European Union.