Why is it so hard to fix Kosovo’s problems?
The Europeans | European news, politics and culture
Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer
4.8 • 162 Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Last week, dozens of NATO peacekeepers were injured after violent protests broke out in northern Kosovo. What is going on, and why do Kosovo's problems seem so hard to fix? This week we dig into the deeper context behind the unrest with political analyst Agon Maliqi. We're also talking about why much of Europe is antsy about who's going to be steering the EU next year, and a bizarre dispute in the art world.
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You can follow Agon on Twitter at @AgonMaliqi.
This week's Isolation Inspiration: Turn of the Tide and Fatma Aydemir: The State of European Literature at the Forum on European Culture, De Balie.
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00:22 The sunny side of the continent
02:14 Bad Week: Looming EU presidencies
12:37 Good Week for Dutch art trolls?
23:20 Interview: Agon Maliqi on why it's so hard to fix the Kosovo-Serbia relationship
35:46 Isolation Inspiration: Turn of the Tide and the Forum on European Culture
40:36 Happy Ending: The magic of Enhanced Rock Weathering
Producers: Katy Lee and Wojciech Oleksiak
Mixing and mastering: Wojciech Oleksiak
Music: Jim Barne and Mariska Martina
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Europeans, the weekly podcast about Europe the continent, not Europe, the |
| 0:28.2 | Swedish rock band. This is Katie in Paris, where it has already been summer for too long. |
| 0:33.5 | I am ready for autumn in the first week of June. and I'm speaking to my lovely friend Dominic in Amsterdam. |
| 0:38.7 | What's going on over there? |
| 0:39.8 | Hi. |
| 0:40.9 | Yeah, I've been sitting in the sun all day, reading up on the latest happenings around Europe, and it's been pretty glorious. |
| 0:46.8 | So you're not sick of the sun? |
| 0:48.1 | No, definitely not. |
| 0:49.1 | This is my favourite time of year. |
| 0:50.8 | Also, you get like three hours of it in total over the year in Amsterdam. So, enjoy it |
| 0:55.6 | well at last, my friend. Three hours of what, sun? Yeah, that's rude, isn't it? I shouldn't say that. |
| 1:00.5 | It's not so bad here. And I'm happy that you're actually coming to visit me again for the third |
| 1:05.5 | time in two months. And I really hope Amsterdam will put on a better show when it comes to the weather this time. I just can't get |
| 1:11.3 | enough of you. I should probably come and visit you sometime. I've not been to Paris for years. |
| 1:15.3 | Rude. Anyway, we'll discuss that later. What's coming up on the show this week? Well, this week |
| 1:20.8 | we're going to be looking at what has been going on in Kosovo over the past few weeks. You've |
| 1:26.5 | probably seen headlines about NATO sending hundreds of extra troops to Kosovo over the past few weeks. You've probably seen headlines about NATO sending hundreds of |
| 1:29.2 | extra troops to Kosovo as part of a peacekeeping operation in response to violent unrest in the |
| 1:35.8 | north of the country. It all sounds very concerning and as with most news from the Balkans, |
| 1:42.0 | it can sometimes feel quite difficult for those of us who are not |
| 1:45.1 | in the region to completely understand what's happening and why. But we're in good hands this week |
| 1:50.2 | because we're going to be calling up Agon Malici, a policy analyst and activist later on in the show |
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