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Only the people of Kosovo can speak for Kosovo

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By Harry Bajraktari* The President of Serbia and the Prime Ministers of Albania and North Macedonia are moving to unite their countries in some form of “Balkans’ Schengen”, which mimics the visa-free, open economic area that EU members enjoy. The initiative has been greeted with a lot of suspicion and criticism in Kosova and its leaders have rejected an invitation to join. To Edi Rama, Prime Minister of Albania, this reaction seems like a mystery. It should not be. The project reminds people of another failed project. It was called Yugoslavia and it had great aspirations, but it collapsed amid…

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