The chief of the EU office in Kosovo, Natalya Apostolova, said the European Union believes in building bridges, not walls, when asked by Kosovo MPs about a two-metre-high concrete barrier which Serb authorities began constructing next to the Ibar River in the ethnically divided town of Mitrovica in northern Kosovo last week.
"The EU has never built nor supports walls. The EU builds bridges,” she said, adding that “the EU has a project, which is the revitalisation of the Ibar [River] bridge. The wall is not our project, and we cannot control it.”
Apostolova stressed that the EU is following the situation in Mitrovica.
Last Thursday, Kosovo’s Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning ordered that Serb authorities halt the building of the wall.