International Conference: Current Security Challenges for the Western Balkan Region Addressed by Means of Joint Responsibility and Cooperation But it is also true, that diplomacy can only be as good as the politics itself is. Or expressed differently: Diplomacy cannot substitute politics. Politics must give clearance and margin to diplomacy because diplomacy is only the servant of politics. Bad governance cannot produce good diplomacy, because good diplomacy cannot compensate bad governance. Now, I will present four scenarios for the relation between Kosovo and its neighborhood in ten year – 2025. Not to predict the future, but to offer different visions of possible and plausible outcomes: 1. After a period of political crises – the entire 3. No deep and concrete political and Western Balkans shares for pragmatically economic transformation take place in the common interests with the region. Balkan region Western Balkans. Improvements seem as shared region. As a result the fatigue for new impossible due to stable corrupt regimes. Each accessions in the EU member decreases. country in the Western Balkan live next door – 2. Political crises lead to more democratic and but apart from each other. The EU member states are not willing for new accessions. 4. 5 economic reform that clear the way for improved relationships with each other and The countries in the common bound by common values. Balkan region as neighborhood continue to form an unstable common region. The EU member states are zone. The entire Western Balkans as a region in willing for new accessions. the upcoming European home lies in remains. The Thessaloniki- Agenda is only history. I started with Bob Dylan and I want to end with him: One of his famous songs is titled:“The times they are a changin”. For responsible and rational politics and diplomacy, the title is not a blueprint. But it is a guiding principle of perspective.