Comments on: Kosovo: an EU foreign policy success or failure?

By: August

August — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:36:14 +0000

Thank you for your article and I have mixed your point of you about this problem. You of course each country can follow this example in future and you can’t stop it. But at the same time I think it deals with the procrastination in the past.

By: Jonatan

Jonatan — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:10:29 +0000

Thanks for interesting post. You have raised indeed serious problems. There were promising alternatives proposed, but never seriously considered by people in power to decide.

By: [BLOCKED BY STBV] Retire Cyprus

[BLOCKED BY STBV] Retire Cyprus — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 16:36:20 +0000

Retire Cyprus…

I have to say, that I could not agree with you in 100%, but it’s just my opinion, which could be wrong….

By: Raul

Raul — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 11:13:17 +0000

“What might have been is…history.” You are right. But it is a pity that Kosovo won’t really be independent for years, will not be able to join all the international organisations and will continue to be economically dependent.

By: Quentin

Quentin — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:27:51 +0000

Your article is thought provoking. I can’t but agree that recognition of Kosovo’s independence is an unfortunate solution, but there is currently no better a solution. And I agree that it will be the first EU protectorate.

By: Quintin

Quintin — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 17:07:03 +0000

It is a good comment on Kosovo, thank you. All I want is that all countries in the world live in peace. I don’t want any wars. People should aspire to prosperity.

By: Global Voices amin´ny teny malagasy » Osetia Atsimo:Naka tàhaka an’i Kosovo ve?

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:01:25 +0000

[...] Hoy i Stanley Crossick tao amin’ny blaoginy tamin’ny 22 febroary 2008 : Vaha olana mampalahelo ny fankatoavana ny fahaleovantenan’i Kosovo, nefa koa tsy misy vaha olana tsara kokoa noho izany amin’izao fotoana. […] Nisintaka tamin’i Serbia tsy nahazo ny fankatoavan’ity farany i Kosovo; ary ny Firenena Mikambana dia tsy nahavita nanohana ity fahaleovantena ity noho ny fanoherana mafy nataon’i Serbia sy Rosia, notohanan’i Sina. Na izany aza, tokony ho noresahana tao amin’ny fiflan-kevi-pilaminan’ny Firenena Mikambana ity tranga ity, mba hampisy lanjany ara-drariny kokoa ity fahaleovantena ity, rehefa tsy ho ara-dalàna ihany, arahana drafitra tohanan’ny maro an’isa, na eo aza ny vato tsy azo ivalozana. Ireo Minisitry ny Raharaham-bahiny ao amin’ny Fiombonam-be Eropeana dia nanazava tsara fa tranga maningana ity raharahan’i Kosovo ity ary tsy tokony ho tari-dàlana fakan-tahaka mihitsy, fa tsy hahalala izany I Espana sy Sipra. [...]

By: Global Voices Online » South Ossetia: Did Kosovo set a precedent?

Global Voices Online » South Ossetia: Did Kosovo set a precedent? — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 01:00:57 +0000

[...] Crossick wrote on his blog on February 22, 2008: Recognition of Kosovo’s independence is an unfortunate [...]

By: Stanley Crossick

Stanley Crossick — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:42:40 +0000

I have read the diatribe of Johan, Galtung, Hakan Wiberg and Jan Oberg on the Transnational Foundation website, which, inter alia, denounces Martti Ahtisaari’s mediation of Kosovo’s future status as “partial and non-objective”, but offers no better or indeed alternative solution, except by implication, preserving the status quo

By: Slobodan Mitric

Slobodan Mitric — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:21:56 +0000

The moment one sees words “there was no currently no better solution” or one of several variations of “there were no alternatives” – a reasonably informed reader KNOWS that the writer has not done his or her homework. There were promising alternatives proposed, but never seriously considered by people in power to decide. See, for example, the website of the Transnational Foundation….

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:14:33 +0000

Independence was decided back in 1998 (and promised ‘unofficially’ by the US), not recently. EU member states can congratulate themselves on partnering the US in emasculating the United Nations further (lest us not forget how monitoring of elections was wrested away from the UN by the OSCE and since used for political manipulation, i.e. ‘generally free and fair’ 1996 election in Russia where the ‘right man’ won). The UN cannot protect the West now.

EU policy is now a clone of Tito’s policy, Smaller Serbia, Bigger Yugoslavia (EU in this case).

It failed then, it will fail again.

Kosovo was an economic dead-weight on the former Yugoslavia and now the EU has take up the subsidy challenge, i.e. to fund into the foreseeable future a dependent territory (Kosovo) at the cost of billions and billions of Euros that will no doubt be hidden within the ‘Structural Funds’.

The European taxpayer have no say in this.

Of course, I could be wrong and Kosovo will become a paradise and a haven of peace that retired EU Commissioners, film stars and oligarchs will build their villas there and retire… Let’s not then mention former Ombudsman for Kosovo (2000-2005), Marek Anton Nowicki’s parting shot, “Kosovo: Pro Memoria”…

By: Some random thoughts on Kosovo « Kosmopolit

Some random thoughts on Kosovo « Kosmopolit — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:43:21 +0000

[...] good commentary on Kosovo can be found on stanley’s blog that writes “Recognition of Kosovo’s independence is an unfortunate solution, but there is [...]

By: Kosovo: an EU foreign policy success or failure?

Kosovo: an EU foreign policy success or failure? — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:16:51 +0000

[...] Sheldon Drobny wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptRecognition of Kosovo’s independence is an unfortunate solution, but there is currently no better a solution. It is easy to say that EU foreign policy has failed because we could not unanimously agree this recognition. … [...]