NY Times is in
New York Times urges the United States and the majority of her EU allies to recognize Kosovo independence on December 10:
A sovereign Kosovo, like all new democracies, will need long-term help meeting legal, human rights, economic and other challenges, but its people deserve the chance to try.
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Eric Gordy, a Belgrade-based sociologist, rarely talks about Kosovo. And in this commentary he explains how everything Kosovo-related in Belgrade is not really about Kosovo. His examples: patronage of Kosovo Serbs gets the ruling party their votes; tensions are kept high by the weakening DSS to keep the elections from happening; and the "Ministry of Kosovo and Metohija" has seen its corpus of experts multiply.
The outcome of the negotiations is more or less known in advance: the parties will posture for the media for a few months, fail to reach an agreement, and the international mediators will seek to impose a resolution. The only issue that really remains in the air is whether the final status of Kosovo will be called by the name "independence" or by some other label.
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Serb street's opinion about Kosovo on Financial Times. With such jewels as: the number of Serbs thinking Serbia should go to war for Kosovo is now 10%, down from 12% in June.
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The new Telekom Slovenia/Ipko Net mobile operator will start offering its services by the end of the year. Investments worth €200 million are being made. Meanwhile the publicly owned Vala has improved since the time the idea of a second operator was first thrown a couple of years back.
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