No EU without Kosovo recognition, EP rapporteur claims

STRASBOURG, PRISTINA EP Rapportueur for Kosovo Ulrike Lunacek says Serbia will not be able to join the EU unless it recognizes Kosovo’s independence, Radio Free Europe reports. “I have said it several times because the EU will not allow another Cyprus in the EU. The EU will not accept any country without defined borders,” Lunacek said and added that the EU was against the partition of Kosovo. No EU without Kosovo recognition, EP rapporteur claims She expressed belief that Serbia would demand a wide autonomy and maybe a special status for northern Kosovo in the talks with Pristina. The EP parliament said that it was impossible for Serbian and Kosovo PMs Ivica Dacic and Hashim Thaci to agree on the partition because it was clear that the partition was impossible and that changes could not be changed in the Balkans. According to her, the biggest problem in the negotiations would be the implementation of the agreement on the integrated management of the administrative crossings. “I am convinced, however, that Belgrade would not play with its European perspective,” Lunacek pointed out. Ulrike Lunacek (Beta, file) Tanjug

No EU without Kosovo recognition, EP rapporteur claims

She expressed belief that Serbia would demand a wide autonomy and maybe a special status for northern Kosovo in the talks with Priština.

The EP parliament said that it was impossible for Serbian and Kosovo PMs Ivica Dačić and Hashim Thaci to agree on the partition because it was clear that the partition was impossible and that changes could not be changed in the Balkans.

According to her, the biggest problem in the negotiations would be the implementation of the agreement on the integrated management of the administrative crossings.

“I am convinced, however, that Belgrade would not play with its European perspective,” Lunacek pointed out.