Ethnic Serbs and Albanians are at each others’ throats

It was “an escalation on top of a previous escalation,” said Gabriel Escobar, an American diplomat charged with helping the EU to calm relations between Serbia and Kosovo, a republic of under 2m people which most of the Western world recognises as an independent country but which Serbia still considers its own land. On June 14th three Kosovo policemen were arrested by Serbian police, though the two sides dispute which side of the border they were on. On June 26th they were freed. But this latest of many Kosovo-Serbia crises persists.