Kosovo Clashes Show EU’s Balkan Ambitions Are Faltering
- Serb protesters clash with NATO forces in northern Kosovo
- Kosovo’s premier trying to show he can govern all his country
A KFOR peacekeeper and Kosovan riot police in Zvecan, Kosovo, on May 30.
Photographer: Dejan Simicevic/AP Photo
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The European Union’s efforts to mend relations between Kosovo’s Serbian and Albanian communities are unraveling as violence spills across the north of the country.
The worst clashes in a decade erupted on Monday when NATO-led peacekeepers were called in to contain clashes between Serbian protesters and the Kosovo police. Thirty soldiers and dozens of Serbs were injured.