Can the EU Make Member States Recognise Kosovo?
Journal: Croatian Yearbook of European Law and Policy
Year: 2023

Because of their internal situations, Cyprus, Greece, Romania, Slovakia and Spain do not recognise Kosovo. Aware of its inability to create a common view, as in other cases, the European Council has noted that ‘Member States will decide, in accordance with national practice and international law, on their relations with Kosovo’ on a sui generis basis. Nevertheless, the EU has engaged in de facto recognition of Kosovo by treating it as an independent State. Their obligations rooted in a duty of s