ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses the engagement of the EU in Kosovo, starting from the argument that the EU’s influence in Kosovo has been expanding gradually and stretches into the political, judicial, economic and security spheres. The EU’s omnipresence in Kosovo is a result of more than a decade-long period of direct involvement in stabilisation and reconstruction as well as in member state building. Throughout these years, various EU institutions have been involved in the establishment of political, judicial and economic institutions and a system that mirrored the predominant liberal-democratic model of a polity. The EU’s involvement in Kosovo has been characterised by the lack of a clear and shared vision for state building and it has been susceptible to its internal disagreements and predominance of particular state interests over the wider European ones, as well as to Kosovo’s peculiar legal and political conundrum.
