Spain’s new prime minister may have lined up with Catalan and Basque nationalists in toppling his predecessor, but Pedro Sanchez’s choice of cabinet suggests no let-up in Madrid’s hard-line stance on Catalan independence, and by extension Kosovo.
Indeed, unconfirmed reports in Serbia suggest Spain’s new Socialist government has asked to take part in sensitive European Union-mediated negotiations between Belgrade and Pristina, nervous about the shape of any binding agreement designed to finally settle their relations a decade after Kosovo declared independence.
