Is the media exaggerating the danger of Kosovo ?

Francisco Veiga, professor of eastern European and Turkish contemporary history in the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), considers that we shouldn't be fooled by alarmist analyses of Kosovo's future. "Once the media hype has died down, Kosovo's Albanians on one side and Serbs and Russians on the other will get on together in many domains. ... The media and some politicians are thinking as if we were back in 1991 [when war broke out in the Balkans]. But their sensationalist attitude is by no means a reflection of actual reality on the terrain. There will be no new war, at least not one waged by Serbia, for the simple good reason that Belgrade does not have the necessary forces, leaders or logistics for one. And other local actors do not have the leeway necessary to organise a war, should they to want one."

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