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The page one article "EU faces thorny choice on Kosovo" (June 29) raises some thorny issues. Depending upon how the world responds to the Kosovo final status conundrum - "phased independence" over the next few years for the Kosovar Albanian majority (the UN plan), or "substantial autonomy" for the province (Belgrade's position) - the decision has grave implications for the resurrection of violence between Serbs and Albanians and for the Balkans in general. What to do? This is clearly not the time for "old" thinking, which seems to have dominated the discourse over Kosovo thus far, with threats and counter-threats, talk of Russians holding EU foreign policy hostage, and the like
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