European Union Foreign and Security Policy Spokesman Peter Stano has confirmed that the European Union’s special envoy for the Kosovo-Serbia dialogue, Miroslav Lajcak, will be in Berlin on May 4, where he will also meet with the Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti, and with the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic.

The warnings are that Lajçak will also have a joint meeting with the two leaders. If realized, this will be the first meeting between Kurti and Vucic since July last year.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has invited President Vucic and Prime Minister Kurti on special bilateral visits to Berlin on May 4.

“At the invitation of Chancellor Scholz, the special envoy, Miroslav Lajcak, will be in Berlin on May 4 to meet first with the chancellor, and then in an informal meeting with President Vucic and Prime Minister Kurti,” EU spokesperson said.

In the EU, there have been several attempts to create conditions for a high-level meeting between Kurti and Vucic, in the framework of the dialogue for the normalization of relations, but so far without success.

EU chief diplomat Josep Borrell himself has said he will not invite the leaders to such a face-to-face meeting, without clear indications that concrete progress will be made at the meeting.

This informal meeting in Berlin, if realized, could be an opportunity to improve the atmosphere within the dialogue and to make possible even a high-level meeting in Brussels.

/Klara Ruci/