A change requiring drivers with Serbian registration plates to put on temporary plates

Two interior ministry offices in northern Kosovo were attacked near border crossings blocked by local Serbs angered by a ban on cars with Serbian license plates entering the country, police say.

Preliminary investigations show that the burning of the Vehicle Registration Center in Zubin Potok was intentional. 2 hand grenades were also dropped in Zvecan, but fortunately didn’t explode.

Serbia deploys troops on heightened alert at Kosovo border as Pristina accuses Belgrade of trying to ‘provoke a serious international conflict’ after attack on vehicle registration offices.

What people are saying?

dtf1947 Serbs have never gotten over the loss of Kosovo, a region that is central to their national ethos (they lost a battle there hundreds of years ago, but it was a glorious defeat). So this is really about nationalistic macho and domestic issues of some kind.

Gregory Deacon Can’t really be over just license plate, that sounds like the kind of scapegoat Serbia would use to take back Kosovo.

Chuck Baer Yes, there was a thousand years of peace in the Balkans before license plates ruined everything.