The EU fails to scratch a truce between Serbia and Kosovo

• Tension NATO calls for calm in the 'powder keg' of the Balkans

• International Kosovo Serbs threaten to unilaterally declare their autonomy

"Today's meeting was not a normal or regular meeting. It was a crisis management meeting," said

, at the end of the high-level meeting held in Brussels between the Serbian president,

, and Kosovar Prime Minister

.

The meeting ended without agreement.

And it speeds up the hands of the clock, which are already running unstoppably towards that September 1, when the so-called

threatens to reactivate again.

The lack of reaching a common point did not leave great surprises in the community capital.

Already before the

, in Brussels it was perceived as the only good news that the two leaders shared the same table after more than a year later.

welcomed the Balkan leaders in

with great ambitions, but with few illusions because the tension of recent days in the

already made it possible to foresee a high-voltage meeting.

"[The escalation] comes at a critical moment for

. With the Russian invasion of

we have seen the return of war to our continent. Therefore, it is not the time to add additional tensions, but to find solutions to entrenched problems" , assured the head of European diplomacy during the subsequent press conference.

The leader of

recognized that "he does not give up".

The dialogue will continue over the next few days, but nervousness is growing within Europe in the face of new sources of tension on its borders.

The war in Ukraine, the tension between the

and

or the time bomb that is already the Sahel raise fears of more global volatility with a new focus on the

powder keg .

The

hoped that the talks will resume "in the coming days."

"It is not the end of the story. There is time until September 1. I do not give up," advanced

, who, however, barely gave details of what format and under what calendar this dialogue will take place.

And the worst enemy is time.

There are only

that replaces the identity document and Serbian license plates with other Kosovars at its border posts comes into force.

The measure has been postponed several times.

The last one at the beginning of August.

But if approved, it would unleash an unpredictable wave of tension in northern Kosovo that has already pushed

to speak out, assuring that it is ready to intervene to guarantee stability.

The

has sponsored the dialogue between

This format is, de facto, the only official one for both to advance in the normalization of relations.

But after a decade of intermittent meetings, the results show little progress and many frustrations.

The main candy that the community teaches the Balkans is to highlight that good relations are a non-negotiable requirement to be part of the

.

Serbia, which opened accession negotiations in 2014, is one of the most advanced countries in the enlargement process.

For its part, the status of

is reduced to that of a candidate country.

also has the handicap that

, do not recognize it as an independent and sovereign country.

Something that became clear again after the last tour of President Pedro Sánchez in the region, where he reiterated that

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