This week, a new prime minister of Kosovo was named — something the ousted prime minister Albin Kurti calls a 'parliamentary coup d'etat' engineered by political rivals and supported by a U.S. envoy.
The strains emerged over U.S. efforts to find a quick solution to Kosovo's long-troubled relationship with neighboring Serbia, of which it used to be part. After only weeks in office, Kurti's government was toppled, and this week a new prime minister was named — something Kurti calls a"parliamentary coup d'etat" engineered by political rivals and supported by a U.S. envoy.
"You have these malign actors using regions like the Balkans for proxy battles by abusing nationalist sentiments," he says."So why not do something big that resolves this thing once and for all?" Grenell — who resigned this week as U.S. Ambassador to Germany but remains Serbia-Kosovo envoy — has urged a quick deal that would bring economic benefits.
"In the past, American envoys, be they from State Department or from the White House, they were meeting us halfway, they were mediators," he says."It is the first time now that we have an American envoy, he has the same identical stance with Serbia." "It appears Grenell put extraordinary pressure on the government of Kosovo," says Molly Montgomery, a former U.S. diplomat in the Balkans and now a nonresident fellow at the Brookings Institution."And he also seems to have given up the United States' traditional role as Kosovo's main champion."
Kurti suggests Grenell is trying to rush a Kosovo-Serbia deal to clinch a quick foreign policy win for President Trump in an election year.
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