Securing an agreement on the future of Kosovo will be high on the agenda at European Union talks today.
EU foreign ministers are meeting in Portugal, where the status of the province will be discussed along with issues surrounding migration and climate change.
Ministers will try to overcome internal divisions over the future of the province and move towards a common position.
British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said it was a "major test" for European foreign policy. Mr Miliband has said that Serbia must present plans that are acceptable to Kosovo's ethnic Albanian majority if it continues to oppose independence for the province.
Kosovo is under the administration of the United Nations as its final status was left undecided at the end of the conflict between Nato and Serbia in 1999.
Leaders of the Albanian majority have reportedly threatened to declare independence if last-ditch talks fail to secure an agreement by December 10th.