Leading voice in the European Parliament expresses anxiety about UN plan for the EU's mission in Serb areas of Kosovo. A UN-sponsored plan under which the EU's police and justice mission in Kosovo would extend its reach into Serb-dominated northern Kosovo in return for as yet undisclosed concessions could lead the de facto `soft partition' of Kosovo permanent, a leading voice on Kosovo in the European Parliament has warned. Joost Lagendijk, a Dutch member of the Green group in the European Parliament who is currently drafting a report on Kosovo, said that he was all in favour of "constructive ambiguity" - the use of terminology that can be interpreted in slightly different ways by different sides - to facilitate progress in Kosovo, whose self-declared independence is rejected by its ethnic-Serb minority. However, Lagendijk told European Voice that he feared that the UN plan could make permanent the current political and administrative divisions in Kosovo. To prevent that, Lagendijk said, the European Parliament should be prepared to use its powers over the EU budget, from which Eulex is funded, if the EU mission began to apply two sets of law in Kosovo or to follow two separate chains of command.
A UN-sponsored plan under which the EU's police and justice mission in Kosovo would extend its reach into Serb-dominated northern Kosovo in return for as yet undisclosed concessions could lead the de facto `soft partition' of Kosovo permanent, a leading voice on Kosovo in the European Parliament has warned.
Joost Lagendijk, a Dutch member of the Green group in the European Parliament who is currently drafting a report on Kosovo, said that he was all in favour of "constructive ambiguity" - the use of terminology that can be interpreted in slightly different ways by different sides - to facilitate progress in Kosovo, whose self-declared independence is rejected by its ethnic-Serb minority. However, Lagendijk told European Voice that he feared that the UN plan could make permanent the current political and administrative divisions in Kosovo. To prevent that, Lagendijk said, the European Parliament should be prepared to use its powers over the EU budget, from which Eulex is funded, if the EU mission began to apply two sets of law in Kosovo or to follow two separate chains of command.
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