A Balkan bust-up

摘要

IT WAS ONLY 51 days old, but covid-19 was used to kill it. On March 25th a big majority of deputies in Kosovo's parliament voted to snuff out the government of Albin Kurti, a radical reformer. They may have been doing America's bidding. Donald Trump's administration wanted the truculent prime minister out of the way in order to claim peace in Kosovo as a (rare) foreign-policy success in the run-up to America's presidential election. Its friends have provided.