German "stick-and-carrot": What did Scholz say to Kurti but not so directly to Vučić?

The first great Balkan assignment of the new German Chancellor was successfully performed: both Vui and Kurti came to Berlin.
These are politicians, as Deutsche Welle writes, in whose hands is the solution of the currently biggest political problem in the Balkans - the relations between Serbia and Kosovo.
Apart from regular statements about the improvement of economic and political relations, then about the citizens of the two countries who live and work in Germany and who serve as a "bridge between homeland and Germany", the focus is on the continuation of frozen negotiations between Serbia and Kosovo, which are at the lowest level since the Brussels Agreement was signed in 2013.
A special meeting between Aleksandar Vui and Albin Kurti on Wednesday night, which was held in the presence of Miroslav Lajk, the EU special envoy for negotiations between Belgrade and Pritina, gives additional weight to previous meetings in the chancellery.

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No more mirages? Tanjug/AP Photo/Michael Sohn

Olaf Scholz obviously cared that the phase of Germany's increased involvement in the Western Balkans continued during his tenure as chancellor. "The countries of the Western Balkans have a place in the European Union: it is not an empty promise, it is not a clich," Scholz said. Somewhat later, at a joint press conference, Vui will say that the chancellor told him that the perspective "is not a mirage, it is not an illusion", but something that will "really happen".
Scholz tried to explain the importance of the agreement with the stick and carrot method: the agreement...

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