Alternative headline: Kosovo serbs are raising ethnic tensions by refusing to use the official currency of the country they live in
If the Serbs want to use the Dinar so bad, they can go shopping in Serbia anytime.
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Tensions between Kosovo and Serbia are too high for Kosovo to be escalating like this.
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I dont think it’s a good idea to be going against the experts in the US and the EU on this one. Unless you know something that they don’t.
From what I understand, as someone who has never been south of Munich, Northern Kosovo is at a high risk of violence, and there are minorities there that use the dinar, and have grudges against the Kosovo government. Actions that have the risk of angering this minority shouldn’t be taken unanimously. I mean, is it really worth the risk of people dying just to close some black markets in northern Kosovo?
edit: shouldn’t, not should
There is a Serbian minority in Kosovo. The fact that Serbia is a russian puppet doesn’t change the fact, that this is increasing tensions with the Serbian minority in Kosovo.
The move is condemmend by both the EU and US, so claiming tensions would exclusively come from Serbia as a Russian puppet doesn’t hold true.
I am all for defending the minority, but in this case they don’t seem to even respect the authority where they live in.
Why is it so hard to just use the local currency?? Have they not heard of money changer??
they don’t seem to even respect the authority where they live in.
…I mean, yes, from the Serbian perspective, Kosovo is an illegitimate state. The issue is not logistics, it’s basically civil disobedience.
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And if you are older than 12 years you know that things can be more complicated than that. Also democracies have instruments to protect minorities from despotic rulings of the majority.
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
The US has accused authorities in Kosovo of “unnecessarily raising ethnic tensions” after the government imposed a ban on Serbia’s currency and instructed its Serb minority to adopt the euro.
Police raids ordered by Pristina’s interior ministry on four organisations working in Serb-populated areas, which came days after the currency switch, have intensified fears of the security situation deteriorating.
Officials say the status of the organisations targeted in the police raids – parallel structures funded by Belgrade – should be addressed though EU-facilitated normalisation talks between Kosovo and Serbia.
The international community has urged the Kosovan government to postpone the euro-only policy, saying the currency switch decision, announced by the central bank in mid-January, did not allow enough time to adapt.
“These actions are unnecessarily raising ethnic tensions and as a consequence limit the options of the United States to serve as an effective advocate for Kosovo in the international arena,” he said.
Highlighting tensions, Serbia’s populist president, Aleksandar Vučić, said the ban on the dinar was part of a wider policy to ethnically cleanse the Serbs from Kosovo, describing it as a “criminal strike” against the 100,000-strong minority.
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