Outgoing Slovak Minister of Foreign Affairs and career diplomat Miroslav Lajčak, it is speculated, could become the EU's first special envoy for the Western Balkans, reports EURACTIV.com today.
That position would be established by the European Commission in cooperation with the European External Action Service (EEAS).
At the end of 2005, in anticipation of the referendum in Montenegro, the then high representative of the EU for foreign policy and security, Javier Solana, appointed Lajčak as his special representative in our country.
Lajčak was a high representative in BiH and worked briefly in the EEAS.
Until now, the EU has not had a special representative for the region that aspires to membership in the bloc, and the negotiations between Belgrade and Pristina were conducted with the mediation of the former EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security, Federica Mogherini.
Belgrade and Pristina, with the mediation of Brussels, conducted a dialogue with the aim of reaching a comprehensive agreement, however, there has been no dialogue for more than a year.
The dialogue was interrupted at the end of 2018, when Pristina introduced 100 percent taxes on goods from Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
After taxis, the new brake was the elections, first the European one in May 2019, then in Kosovo in October, while in Serbia they are yet to follow, probably in April.
Since a few months ago, the USA has also had special envoys in the region - Matthew Palmer was appointed as the special representative of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for the Western Balkans, and Richard Grenell was appointed by President Donald Trump as the special envoy for dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina.
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