The Objectives of the Kosovo-EU Stabilization and Association Agreement with the Focus on Minority Rights

Doi: https://doi.org/10.58603/LRHD7180

Abstract: The paper makes an analysis of the costs and benefits of the Kosovo’s political process integration into the European Union (EU) with the focus in the promotion of minority rights as political objective of the Kosovo-EU Stabilization and Association Agreement. Kosovo is the last state from Balkan Peninsula that signed a Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA) with the EU. While this is the first contractual relationship between the EU and Kosovo, then what is the political goal of this agreement and the impact into the minority rights? For other Western Balkans countries which signed SAA, the main objective was their integration and membership in the EU while such a target is not included in the Kosovo – EU SAA agreement. Thus, a specific attention of this paper is to analyse the impact of the SAA in general and the minority rights in Kosovo in particular.