Global Powers Grapple with Escalating Kosovo-Serbia Tensions.

Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti criticized US Secretary of State Antony Blinken's foreign policy in Kosovo, calling it "naive" and accused him of appeasing Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic. The US had criticized Kosovo's government for actions that inflamed ethnic tensions in the Balkans. Violence erupted after ethnic Albanian mayors took office in the north of Kosovo, a predominantly Serb majority enclave of Kosovo, following April elections that were boycotted by Serbian political parties and their supporters. The renewed violence is another roadblock in the EU-facilitated process to normalize relations between Serbia and Kosovo, which has been ongoing for years.