The leaders of Kosovo and Serbia, Albin Kurti and Aleksandar Vucic, meet in Brussels on Thursday to discuss the implementation of a European Union-brokered agreement on normalising relations, but a closer look at the annex of the agreement setting out the concrete steps they need to take shows only minimal progress.

Under an 11-point agreement reached in February, Serbia and its former southern province committed to develop normal, good-neighbourly relations on the basis of equal rights, a state of affairs that would represent a major improvement on their current relationship.

In March, in the lakeside town of Ohrid in North Macedonia, an implementation annex was agreed, setting out seven steps to reaching the goal of the February deal.

But beyond endorsing a declaration on missing persons and establishing a joint committee to monitor implementation, little else has been done, raising fresh questions about the effectiveness of years of EU mediation between Belgrade and Pristina.