Kosovo was a Serbian province that became a United Nations protectorate in nineteen ninety-nine.

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Inevitably, there is an element of improvisation about the policing of the international protectorate that Kosovo is becoming.

ECONOMIST: Who controls Kosovo?

The risk is that Kosovo becomes dependent on these missions and thus simply an EU protectorate, its leaders shoving responsibility for difficult issues on to foreigners all too willing to rule.

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