No cigar: on Kosovo’s new deal, Catherine Ashton and the “single voice”

... prestige on this agreement, worked on it for a year, and she won. Yet the two leaders are speculated to be possible Nobel Peace Prize candidates, not Lady Ashton. Because, while her efforts deserve acclaim, we must not forget about her leverage: the European Union, already a Peace Prize laureate. Given the two countries’ socio-economic difficulties, Mrs Ashton’s greatest lure was evidently the prospect of EU membership. Moralising about the lessons learnt in the New York Times, Lady ...