“Serbia can join EU without recognizing Kosovo”

Graz-based Center for South-East European Studies Director Florian Bieber says it is “quite realistic” for Serbia to join the EU without recognizing Kosovo.

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NOVI SAD Graz-based Center for South-East European Studies Director Florian Bieber says it is “quite realistic” for Serbia to join the EU without recognizing Kosovo. “If Serbia finds a way to cooperate, to normalize relations with Kosovo, I do not see that an official recognition is a condition, that Belgrade needs to send an ambassador to Pristina and vice versa,“ he stressed. “Serbia can join EU without recognizing Kosovo” “Of course, that can be an official stance of the EU some day but for now there is enough room to find another solution that would include normalization but not recognition,” Bieber stressed. He told Novi Sad-based daily Dnevnik that a meeting between Serbian and Kosovo Presidents Tomislav Nikolic and Atifete Jahjaga was a “historic” meeting and a new step forward in the Belgrade-Pristina relations and another proof that steps toward normalization of relations were being made. According to Bieber, a precondition for the success in the normalization of relations between Serbia and Kosovo is an EU offer for both sides that will include speeding up of Serbia’s EU accession and some economic offers. He said that the two sides were moving toward some kind of the so-called Ahtisaari Plus Plan when it comes to northern Kosovo. “I think some sort of partition is not acceptable to the EU and Kosovo but autonomy for northern Kosovo which would to an extent legalize the existing situation is. In that sense, the north will certainly be closely connected with Serbia,” Bieber noted. However, he added that Serbia should at least formally admit that the north belonged to Kosovo as well. (Beta/AP, file) Beta

“Serbia can join EU without recognizing Kosovo”

“Of course, that can be an official stance of the EU some day but for now there is enough room to find another solution that would include normalization but not recognition,” Bieber stressed.

He told Novi Sad-based daily Dnevnik that a meeting between Serbian and Kosovo Presidents Tomislav Nikolić and Atifete Jahjaga was a “historic” meeting and a new step forward in the Belgrade-Priština relations and another proof that steps toward normalization of relations were being made.

According to Bieber, a precondition for the success in the normalization of relations between Serbia and Kosovo is an EU offer for both sides that will include speeding up of Serbia’s EU accession and some economic offers.

He said that the two sides were moving toward some kind of the so-called Ahtisaari Plus Plan when it comes to northern Kosovo.

“I think some sort of partition is not acceptable to the EU and Kosovo but autonomy for northern Kosovo which would to an extent legalize the existing situation is. In that sense, the north will certainly be closely connected with Serbia,” Bieber noted.

However, he added that Serbia should at least formally admit that the north belonged to Kosovo as well.

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