Why the green light for Kosovo joining the Council of Europe is likely to be delayed
Kosovo's admission to the Council of Europe (CoE) is not on the agenda of the meeting of its Committee of Ministers, which is set to be held on 16 and 17 May. This will likely lead to delays in Pristina's admission to the pan-European human rights body. In the meantime, Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti has said that the procedure for creating a new administrative body for places where ethnic Serbs are a majority has emerged as an "unacceptable precondition" to Kosovo's membership as CoE's 48th member state. Kurti’s move to reject the precondition has dissatisfied France, Germany and Italy, wh...