Florian Bieber: Kosovo's genocide charges against Serbia cannot be successful

"I don't see how that could be successful," he said, adding the purpose of the charges was to draw attention to war crimes Serbia's forces committed in Kosovo during the 1998-1999 war there.

It is, he says, focused on the past and the reasons why Kosovo is independent today.

According to Bieber, Pristina's problem is that Serbia can "live with the status quo," while Kosovo cannot.

He says that 13 years after Kosovo's declaration of independence, it "inclines more to defending its position and rights than to rely only on the European Union and the US positions."

"To what extent is (Kosovo's Prime Minister Albin) Kurti ready for a compromise and agreement remains to be seen since he lacks experience in conducting diplomatic negotiations," Bieber said.

However,  Biber sees Belgrade as a major problem in the dialogue, and the lack of its readiness to accept a compromise, leading to "some kind of the recognition of Kosovo."

Serbia's President Aleksandar Vucic's messages are not encouraging in that sense, while the EU doesn't have anything attractive enough to offer Belgrade to accept Kosovo as an independent state, Bieber says.