A deal or a trap?
Is the EU's focus on the Association of Serb-Majority Municipalities all that it seems?
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While Vučić has been loud and clear, the silence from the EU has been deafening.
Incorporating a regime into the EU without first addressing the country's expressed desire for territorial expansion seems like a recipe for disaster.
Implementing the ASM in its original form would fundamentally undermine Kosovo’s internal sovereignty and almost certainly bring down the Kurti government.
Aidan Hehir
Aidan Hehir is a Reader in International Relations at the University of Westminster. His research interests include transitional justice, humanitarian intervention, and statebuilding in the Balkans. He is the author/editor of eleven books and co-editor of the Routledge
Intervention and Statebuilding book series. In 2022 his novel “The Flowers of Srebrenica” was published by Qendra Multimedia.
DISCLAIMERThe views of the writer do not necessarily reflect the views of Kosovo 2.0.
This story was originally written in English.