Kosovo is facing another hurdle in its path towards joining the Council of Europe (CoE), as Western European countries ask for significant steps towards an association for its Serb-speaking minority.
Local media singled out France and Germany as the two countries pushing towards the creation of an association that should ward the Serbian minority in the north of the country working on education, health care, land planning and economic development as a condition to approve Kosovo’s membership next Friday during a vote at the Council of Europe, the foremost human rights association in the area.
Kosovo is wary on the association because…