Serbia’s Janus-faced president wants to take Serbia into the EU, and at the same time wants to partition Kosovo. Can he have his cake and eat it?

It had been an unsettled and unsettling 24 hours in Prishtina with the announcement of the Kosovar government's rejection of the six point proposal for establishing EULEX across Kosovo, as negotiated between Belgrade and the EU.  This was the run-up to the London School of Economics' Tuesday night debate with respected commentators on Kosovo, Tim Judah, Anna Di Lellio, Jelena Bjelica and Daut Dauti presenting their views on Kosovo's Independence and the Balkans: regional implications and challenges.

Witnessing the European Union’s seemingly star-crossed EULEX mission take shape over the past few weeks has been not unlike observing a train wreck: it’s awful and ghastly, but locked in horrified awe you cannot look away.  It’s a wreck entirely of the EU’s own making, owing to their squeamishness and most unseemly habit of obsessive diplomatic hand wringing.

Nine months after the independence of Kosovo, the European Union is still winding in Kosovo. With the help of Russia at the disfuctional UN Security Council, Serbia is threatening to fail the EULEX mission.