The prime minister of Kosovo has the hurt look of a new boy at school who thinks he has done everything right to fit in and still finds nobody likes him.
But Albin Kurti — who sent ethnic Albanian mayors into four Serbian-majority towns last week against the advice of the US, the UK and EU, Kosovo’s closest friends — is unrepentant.
They punished his stand with the exclusion of his forces from Nato-led military exercises. He believes the reward for his being metaphorically left off the football team will eventually be the vanquishing of his oldest living foe, the ultra-nationalist President Vucic of Serbia, whose former boss once imprisoned him.
“We need the help of the US and UK and EU,” he told The
