IFRI: Kosovo's secession threatens Europe's future
Kosovo's secession marked the end of the European order after the Cold War and threatens the future of Europe, the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI) said in its annual report presented in Paris on Wednesday
(KosovoCompromise Staff) Thursday, September 18, 2008
Among the other key issues, the report also deals with whether Kosovo is an isolated case or part of a wider phenomenon and what consequences the multiplication of states might have to the building of Europe.
A part of Serbia's territory was amputated, said the report made by the influential French institute, which said that separatist demands in Europe and other continents were multiplying.
"If one of the member-states falls apart, the EU future will take a serious blow," said IFRI, comparing the case of Kosovo with Belgium and separatist movements elsewhere in Europe.
A people's right to self-determination or the principle of nationality is an ideological concept which cannot be implemented in multiethnic regions without resulting in a war or mass moving of the population, the analysis of the situation in Serbia said.
Kosovo's independence is unsustainable, because the Serbian minority does not recognise authorities in Pristina, because the daily survival of this new state depends on the outside world and because Serbia does not recognise this new situation, said the analysis and added that Kosovo, which had never existed as a state, did not have natural borders.
Kosovo is independent today, not as a result of any planned action of the European Union, but because the United States unilaterally decided this in 1999, the IFRI report said and added that nowadays the United States too frequently decided and Europe performed.
