The future of Kosovo still hangs in the balance

Predictably, the deadline for a deal on Kosovo's future passed without a settlement last week. The region's population may be 90% ethnic Albanian, but Serbia's opposition to independence remains deep-rooted.

It was "entirely predictable" that the deadline for a deal on Kosovo's future would pass on Monday without settlement, says Ivor Roberts in The Independent.

Serbia's opposition to Kosovo's independence is deep-rooted. Kosovo is the "cradle of Serb civilisation" and its loss to the Ottoman Turks over 600 years ago was felt "as keenly as the loss of Jerusalem by the Jews to the Roman imperial forces".

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