The April Agreement – A Step towards Normalization between Belgrade and Pristina?

What does it take to win the Nobel Prize for Peace? Alfred Nobel was quite precise: You have to be "the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations“. To the surprise of many it was not only the representatives of the Albanian and Serbian lobbying groups in the US, but also the European Social Democrats which came to the conclusion that EU diplomacy chief Catherine Ashton, Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dačić and his Kosovo counterpart Hashim Thaçi had met Alfred Nobel’s description. Their achievment: The Agreement they signed on April 19th in Brussels. The American lobbyists call it a „key and historic watershed“, the Social democrats more cautious „a window of opportunity“ to substantially advance peace.

Andreas Ernst

Andreas Ernst


Andreas Ernst is a correspondent and collaborator for NZZ am Sonntag and Neue Zuercher Zeitung covering the Western Balkans based in Belgrade. Studies in Social and Economic History, Media Sociology and Constitutional Law in Zürich and Berlin. He holds a Ph.D. in Modern European History (University of Zuerich).


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