Eulex in Kosovo: a shining symbol of incompetence

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The costly EU mission in Kosovo has betrayed its mandate – it must be audited and reformed

Andrea Capussela

guardian.co.uk, Saturday 9 April 2011 12.00 BST

The EU's largest civilian mission, Eulex-Kosovo, was meant to prove the possibility of an effective common foreign policy. An excessive expectation, perhaps, because the EU has always been divided on Kosovo – five member states did not recognise its controversial independence, declared in 2008, and this mission became the substitute for a common policy....more...

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