In May 2019, at WORLD.MINDS in Belgrade, 20 years to the day after the bombing of Belgrade by NATO troops, former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder stated unequivocally that in retrospect, if he had to make the decision again, he would authorize the aerial bombardment of the former Yugoslavia again. Schröder said that "the easiest solution would be to first accept Serbia into the European Union and then within, as an integral part the EU, find a solution [to the Kosovo issue]."