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The European Union announced on 15 September an additional EUR 2 million in funding for a cultural heritage project which fosters reconciliation in Kosovo, promoting stability and peace in the wider Western Balkans region.
How to turn symbols of division into symbols of dialogue? “It is the power of the European Union to create dialogue, peace, understanding where we had confrontation or difficulties”, said EU High Representative Federica Mogherini at the Mitrovica bridge in Kosovo in March 2017. And it is exactly in Kosovo, where the European Union, working together with the UN Development Programme (UNDP), showed that cultural heritage protection can be a powerful bridge to overcome ethnic and religious differences. The EU and UNDP took a threefold approach engaging all communities and combining confidence-building measures, restoration of cultural sites and capacity development at community and institutional levels...(link)