The measures which Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić has recently proposed as a way to return to the status quo ante in Kosovo are mostly “wishful thinking”, but the implementation of the proposal related to the return of Serbs to the Kosovo judiciary and police could be a step towards normalising relations between Belgrade and Pristina, our interlocutors assess. They stress that the decision of Kosovo Serbs to boycott the institutions of Pristina, which was made in the fall of 2022, caused great damage to the Serbian community.
In his recent address to the public, Vučić presented Serbia’s actions in response to the latest crisis in northern Kosovo, the first among which was a return to the status quo ante, that is, “everything that has been achieved during the dialogue process”. This includes, among other things, the calling of local elections in northern Kosovo, the return of Serbs to the police and judiciary, as well as the withdrawal of special police forces from northern Kosovo.
