'Stability is fragile': An overlooked European conflict zone is at a tipping point between peace and combat

• With Europe's attention on the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, peace and stability is far from guaranteed in another of the region's most volatile conflict zones, according to a top EU diplomat.
• Serbia-Kosovo relations — fraught ever since the pair's brutal conflict in the 1990s — remain "fragile" despite a new path to normalization being agreed, Miroslav Lajčák said.
• The agreement marked a major step forward for the long-time adversaries, but was later marred by a resurgence in violence.

Davos, SWITZERLAND — With Europe's attention centered on the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine, peace and stability is far from guaranteed in another of the region's most volatile conflict zones, according to a top EU diplomat.

Relations between Serbia and Kosovo, which have been fraught since the pair's brutal conflict in the 1990s, remain delicate one year on from a tentative agreement on a new path to normalization.

"The stability is fragile. We cannot take peace and stability for granted," Miroslav Lajčák, EU special representative for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue and Western Balkans, told CNBC in Davos last month.

The Belgrade-Pristina dialogue is a series of talks facilitated by the European Union designed to ease hostilities between the neighboring southeastern European countries.

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