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Business Daily: What hope for Kosovo's economy?

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What hope for Kosovo's economy?

06/05/2024 GMT

BBC World Service - Business Daily, What hope for Kosovo's economy?

We go to one of Europe's poorest regions where economic promise is held back by politics

We head to one of Europe's poorest regions - full of economic promise but where a brutal past still casts a shadow.

Ed Butler travels to Kosovo to find out what the prospects are for this young, ethnically divided population. 

After Ukraine, it's Europe's poorest region, where a brutal past still casts a shadow. 

But it's also a territory full of economic promise – with precious minerals buried underground, and vast vineyards. If only the politics would stop getting in the way.

(Image: A wine maker in Kosovo, Milan Lakicevic, standing in front of stainless steel tanks, while holding a bottle of his wine.)

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