Kurti and Vucic meet on May 4 in Berlin

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.
The departure of Kurti and Vuçi. To Berlin has been announced since last week, at the invitation of the German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz.

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,” he said. EU spokesperson.

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.
The first meetings that took place between Kurti and Vuçi. In Brussels, an EU official described as “not easy, not pleasant and not meaningful”.

This official said that those meetings were more “monologues of these leaders” than a real dialogue.

Lajcak has announced that on May 13 he will host the next meeting of the chief negotiators of Kosovo and Serbia, Besnik Bislimi and Petar Petkovic, in the framework of dialogue on technical issues.
Discussions on the issue of car license plates are expected to continue at this meeting, which was not agreed upon by the parties at the last meeting in Brussels.

The Interim License Plate Agreement provides for the affixing of state symbols on the license plates of cars of Kosovo and Serbia when they cross into each other’s territory.

This agreement, reached on September 30 last year in Brussels, came after several days of unrest in northern Kosovo, where some local Serbs blocked the road, to oppose the then decision of the Government of Kosovo for reciprocity measures against Serbia.

With those measures, cars with Serbian license plates, upon entering the territory of Kosovo, had to put up temporary license plates – similar to what the drivers of cars with Kosovo license plates did when they entered Serbia./rel

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