Political Breakfast with Wolfgang Ischinger

Berlin, October 9, 2007

In his function as the EU Representative at the Kosovo Status Talks, Wolfgang Ischinger, Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Great Britain, addressed members of the German Bundestag Parliament as well as representatives of the Federal Chancellery, the Foreign Ministry and the Federal Defence Ministry on the stage of the negotiations between the political players from Belgrade and Pristina regarding the final status of Kosovo.

Ambassador Ischinger reported on the positions of Serbia, the Kosovo Albanians, the Russian Federation, the USA as well as the EU and introduced possible models of solution. Furthermore, he discussed the consequences of the status solution for the neighbouring countries of Kosovo and elaborated on the prospects of European integration of the region.

This Background Discussion sets forth the Körber Foundation’s continuing interest in European foreign policy and EU policy toward South Eastern Europe, in the framework of which a Political Breakfast with Martti Ahtisaari , the former UN Special Envoy for Kosovo was staged in February and a field trip to Kosovo and Serbia mounted in the year 2005.

The Körber Foundation regularly invites a small circle of senior Berlin foreign policy professionals to its Background Discussions . As is the case with the Bergedorf Round Tables, the discussions take place confidentially and away from public attention.