Right now, Kosovo's path to the EU and NATO faces another setback. There's been no functioning government, despite three elections in less than 16 months. The latest election this week produced a similar result to the last two: the party of the incumbent prime minister Albin Kurti won 43 per cent of the vote, a clear victory but not enough to govern without a coalition.

This week began with US President Donald Trump pronouncing that a ceasefire extension was so close with Iran, two or three days max, that it would only take an hour to finalise. Hours later, Tehran downed a US Apache helicopter off the Gulf of Oman, with the crew rescued from the sea. The attack was reportedly an attempt to deter the US's evolving efforts to increase air patrols that target Iranian drones in order to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.