Video Period 24 minutes 45 seconds
Tensions rise within the Balkans with assaults on police, mass police resignations and delayed elections.
What seems to be a easy row about automotive licence plates has amplified already strained relations between Serbia and Kosovo.
The European Union is urging all events to de-escalate.
Kosovo was once a part of Serbia. However ethnic Albanians make up 92 % of the 1.8 million individuals who reside there.
About 6 % are ethnically Serb, and so they say they’ve been marginalised.
Serbs started blocking border crossings on Saturday after the arrest of a former policeman. He was one in every of 600 officers who resigned final month in protest towards Kosovo’s plans to ban Serbian licence plates.
Serbia’s President Aleksander Vucic blames Kosovo for upsetting the scenario.
What’s the larger situation at play right here?
Presenter: Laura Kyle
Visitors:
Xhemajl Rexha – Chairman of the board of the Affiliation of Journalists of Kosovo
Darko Trifunovic – Director, Institute for Nationwide and Worldwide Safety of Serbia
David L Phillips – Director, Program on Peace-building and Rights at Columbia College
