Brussels knows which side is blocking dialogue - Vucic tells Politico

BRUSSELS - Even though people in Brussels know which side is blocking progress in the EU-facilitated Belgrade-Pristina dialogue, they "would never say that publicly," Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has told Brussels-based internet portal Politico.eu.

"The EU and the Americans agree with us," Vucic said in an interview.

The portal notes that Vucic has recently called for new local elections in four Serb-majority municipalities in the north of Kosovo-Metohija, and adds that, "despite the absence of a clear democratic mandate," Pristina's PM Albin Kurti has "encouraged" ethnic Albanian politicians to take office following the 2023 municipal elections that were largely boycotted by the local Serb population and "dispatched special police units to protect them, triggering a crisis that has inflamed passions on both sides."

The portal said that, after Kurti...