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In Spain, 17 autonomous provinces control their budgets, urbanism and education, they surely don't have 95% ingerence. Just like there's no such thing as the Catalan army or the Basque Prime Minister, even though the Catalans and Basques are even more numerous, mathematically and percentage wise, than Albanians in Kosovo.

Without UN or EU recognition, the new Kosovo might have less legitimacy than the present one.

I don't know if it was inspired by the example of Czechoslovakia or encouraged by Kosovo, but Ankara's policy on the Cyprus issue is clearly changing.

The deadline is actually killing the prospects for arriving to a compromise solution. Why would the Albanian side have an incentive to engage in the talks if they know what they would be getting after December 10 if no compromise was reached?

"We are still alive, we have not disappeared, we are not subordinated to anybody, we are not dismantled... despite many obstacles put up by genocidal Serbo-Russian politics and their allies.

We have never been affraid of genocidal Serbo-Russian politics. On the contrary, we brought it to its knees, forcing them to surrended in front of our all-Albanian security forces. We have forced the Russians to withdraw from the Illyrian peninsula." (i.e. Balkans)

"The problem of Kosovo lies not in the patience of Albanians, but in the break up of Western consensus... We had Ahtisaari, now it seems that we came back to square one with 27 different voices."

"Belgrade's solution to the Kosovo status question is to call on the West to save Serbian democracy at the expense of regional stability and to bear all the financial costs, legal and security burdens associated with denying Kosovo its independence, and keeping it forcibly under Serbian sovereignty."

"Too many policymakers in Washington and some European capitals have yet to recognize that Slobodan Milosevic is dead"