Germany Urges Kosovo to Postpone Currency Change in Serb Enclave
- Serbia says Kosovo plan would squeeze out dinar as of Feb. 1
- ‘We strongly appeal’ for a delay, German spokeswoman says
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The German government urged Kosovo to delay plans to enforce the euro as its sole currency amid worries that the move could compound ethnic tensions by disrupting cash access to ethnic Serbs in the country’s north.
Kosovo, which unilaterally declared independence from Serbia in 2008, has used the single European currency provisionally for over two decades, though isn’t a euro member. New currency restrictions announced for Feb. 1 prompted Serbian complaints that it would threaten dinar payments to ethnic Serbs living in Kosovo.