Everything was meant to be top notch. After a conference with the two most powerful people in the EU, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron, Brussels was set as the next destination for visits by the Prime Minister of Kosovo, Avdullah Hoti, and the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić. .
Those in Brussels would first be invited to dinner by the president of the European Council, Charles Michel, in the presence of the EU High Representative for Foreign Policy and Security, Josep Borrell. That dinner would take place on Saturday and would show how high on the agenda of the EU is the dialogue for the normalization of relations between Kosovo and Serbia. Michel is very busy calculating who will pay how much and how the nearly 2000 billion euros from the next seven-year EU budget and the post-crisis recovery fund will be spent. Even in this situation, he would find time for Kosovo and Serbia. A day later, on Sunday, July 12, at the headquarters of the EU's External Service, EEAS, the formal meeting of the parties would be held, which would also formally consider that the dialogue stopped for more than 18 months. Since the president of the European Commission, Ursuila van der Leyn, who has decided to live in a small improvised apartment at the headquarters of the European Commission, is also nearby, she had the idea to invite the two guests, Hoti and Vuçiq, for a meeting at the headquarters of the European Commission, writes KOHA Ditore.
But this Sunday's meeting will not happen. For several days, some diplomats in the EU claim that "it seems that the Prime Minister of Kosovo has trouble coming to the meeting and we are encouraging him to come". They even believed that the uncertainty that he has due to the situation in Kosovo will be overcome after the encouragement from Chancellor Merkel and President Macron.
However, it was the president of Serbia who first gave the news that the meeting will not take place on Sunday. Even before during the dialogue, Vučić was the one who gave the news about what will happen and when. He seems to have first-hand information about what is happening in the Government of Kosovo. Because there are people in the government who believe that he and not Hoti represents them in the dialogue, even though they are ministers in the Hoti government in Kosovo. Vuçiqi has found the right moment to stay three days in Paris and two days in Brussels, when the protests against him continue in Belgrade, for which he blamed "foreign agencies and Croatian media".