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What hope for Kosovo's economy?

What hope for Kosovo's economy?

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

Business Daily · BBC World Service

May 5, 202417m 28s

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Show Notes

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.)

Presented and produced by Ed Butler