In the Western Balkans transformed into a pressure cooker since the wars in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s, the slightest disagreement can suddenly increase the pressure.
This is what happened last Sunday around the crossing points which separate the Serbian and Albanian parts of Kosovo.
Unlike more than a hundred countries in the world, Serbia has never recognized the independence of its former province, which it considers its
“historical cradle”.
Protesting against a change in the rules which would have required them, from August 1, to adopt Kosovo license plates and identity documents, the Serbs blocked the crossing points with heavy goods vehicles and trucks. tanks, erected barricades and fired shots at Kosovo police.
Helicopters from Kfor, the NATO force in the region, have been deployed in the north of the country.
Since Kosovo's independence in 2008, the approximately 50,000 Serbs living in the north of the former…
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