Fitim Gashi - European Policy Centre CEP Mon, 08 Jun 2026 07:44:34 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cep.org.rs/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/cropped-CEP_Icon-32x32.png Fitim Gashi - European Policy Centre 32 32 243999105 Shadow Report on the Kosovo-Serbia Normalisation Process https://cep.org.rs/en/publications/shadow-report-on-the-kosovo-serbia-normalisation-process/ Sun, 07 Jun 2026 11:04:26 +0000 https://cep.org.rs/?post_type=publikacije&p=20114 Between Agreement Implementation and Managing Tensions

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]]> This Shadow Report is the first independent, jointly produced assessment of the Agreement on the Path to Normalisation implementation, written simultaneously from Belgrade and Pristina. Its central contribution is the Normalisation Index – an original, replicable twin-component tool measuring (1) implementation of each Agreement and Annex commitment by Serbia, Kosovo*, and the EU, and (2) the engagement of the EU and the United States across four phases between 2023 and 2026. The Report combines the Index with structured fieldwork, focus groups, and desk research to identify six structural challenges behind the implementation gap, and translates them into five sets of actor-specific recommendations for the EU, the US, Serbia, Kosovo, and civil society.

Its overarching finding is stark: three years after Ohrid, overall Agreement implementation stands at just 21.1%, driven far more by external EU facilitation than by genuine political will on either side. The normalisation process has stalled not because political will is temporarily absent, but because the architecture of the process: unsigned commitments, ambiguous language, weak conditionality, and asymmetric incentives: has made non-implementation rational for both governments and unenforceable for the facilitator.

*This designation is without prejudice to positions on status and is in line with UNSCR 1244 and the ICJ opinion on Kosovo Declaration of Independence”

This document has been published as part of the project “Supporting the EU enlargement through the normalisation process between Serbia and Kosovo: Civil society as a driver of progress” and supported by the Open Society Institute – Sofia Foundation (OSIS) through the “Think Tanks for the Future of EU Enlargement Program” (TFEP). Views and opinions expressed are however those of the authors only.

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