"Both societies must at the same time make an additional effort to come to terms with the demands of the present and standards of the developed socie-ties among which they strive to be counted. This happens above all by becoming active citizens able to function and contribute to the newly emerging circumstances of the globalised world. There is a major gap between the rhetoric of civil society at the centre of international efforts to democratise Serbia and Kosovo on the one hand, and the struggle to enshrine the rights of ethnic groups at the heart of Ahtisaari's proposal. The new Serbian Constitution clearly proclaimed Serbia as a state of Serbs and other nationalities, contrary to what it was before - a state of all its citizens, at least on paper. Serbia and Kosovo must continue to develop civil society as a credible social actor (...)."