@DanielSerwer is alaramed. "If you wanted to make common cause with Europe in the Balkans, Grenell is the last American you would choose for the task."

This is important. There is of course a difference between “accept” and “recognise”.

And what is that going to achieve?

Sceptical analysis (and a Tolkien metaphor).

Rakipi on hollow threat of Greater Albania.

Old problems resurface.

Alas, it still needs to be spelled out.

The Belfast Newsletter prints my email message.

If normalisation means anything, it means this.

The inimitable @JetaXharra tests the Serbia/Kosovo agreements by driving to Romania.

Great news. (And cadastral records?)

But is there a way forward?

From Bosnia to Somaliland, via Nagorno-Karabakh.

I'm in the 1.2.2014 broadcast, starting about 1 minute in.

Serbia's special way of keeping promises.

Toby Vogel with the full text.

I get interviewed on Serbia/Kosovo talks (which failed).

An accidental election technology specialist writes.

Outrageous behaviour from Milosevic-era minister.

Nicosia, Jerusalem, Mitrovica...

Extraordinary images; takes me back...

35-year-old policewoman becomes president!

No big surprise.

This is so very stupid

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