Small success at the Balkan summit: Belgrade and Pristina renew dialogue

For Pristina and Belgrade, but also for Berlin and Paris, this Balkan summit was a chance to put their relationship back on track …

Whether it's Brexit, trade relations with the United States, or their approach to the fight against climate change, the Franco-German engine of Europe seems well seized.

But Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron had a common goal with this Balkan summit in Berlin: to bring together the Serbian and Kosovar leaders to relaunch the dialogue and appease the recent renewed tension. Results: Merkel and Macron ostensibly showed good agreement, and Serbia and Kosovo agreed to resume talks. A new meeting is scheduled for early July in Paris.

 The smooth approach of the French President and the German Chancellor therefore paid:

"We do not intend to prescribe a solution in Belgrade and Pristina, but the will to work to look at all the possible options, to try to dispassionate the debate, and to make progress without taboos and without "There are regional tensions that arise from a few solutions, but the responsibility we all have is to work together so that both parties can resume the dialogue.".......