A deal or a trap?
Is the EU's focus on the Association of Serb-Majority Municipalities all that it seems?
Perspectives | Dialogue2023.04.24
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.
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