The Eu Engagement in the Kosovo-Serbia Dialogue

Albanian question" in the early twentieth century. Back then, these powers were Britain, France, Germany, Russia, Italy, and Austria. They made up the core of the European Concert of Powers from 1815 to 1914. The London Conference of their ambassadors in 1913 recognized, among others, the newly independent state of Albania and its international frontiers with Serbia, Montenegro, and Greece. The redrawing of the maps of the Balkan states by the European powers left whole regions inhabited almost entirely by ethnic Albanians -Kosovo among them -outside Albania's state borders and their population scattered throughout the region. The 1913 London Conference of Ambassadors determined Kosovo's fate. Once invaded by -and part of -the Ottoman Empire, Kosovo, which has always been almost homogeneously ethnically Albanian, along with what is today Macedonia, was annexed to Serbia in May 1913." (Tarifa&Lukas 2007).