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Talks in Brussels to Keep Serbia and Kosovo Looking Westward

Aug 19, 2022 | 15:10 GMT

Trucks loaded with sand form a barricade in a road near the Kosovar town of Zubin Potok on Aug. 1.

Trucks loaded with sand form a barricade in a road near the Kosovar town of Zubin Potok on Aug. 1.

(Photo by ARMEND NIMANI/AFP via Getty Images)

The recent flare-up in tensions between Kosovo and Serbia does not suggest that Kosovo or the wider Western Balkans region is in imminent danger of collapsing into widespread violence, but such ethnic grievances will continue to destabilize the area....