The European Union has criticized on Tuesday a police action by the Kosovar authorities in the north of Kosovo against financial offices, describing it as de-escalating and one-sided.

“Monday’s operations prove once again that the Kosovo authorities prioritize unilateral and uncoordinated actions more than cooperation with friends and allies on the ground,” EU spokesman Peter Stano said in a press release.

During Monday’s action, the authorities in Kosovo closed six facilities of the Post Savings Bank and the People’s Bank of Serbia in the four municipalities with a Serbian majority in the north of Kosovo, writes Radio Free Europe.

During the action, which the Kosovo authorities said was about establishing “order and legality”, various evidence, including money, were confiscated.

Like the United States earlier, the European Union called the decision of the Kosovar authorities an uncoordinated and de-escalating action.

“The closing and confiscation of these offices without prior warning, or without coordination, just a few days after the last dialogue meeting, which also dealt with the issue of these Postal Savings bank facilities, it is an de-escalation and goes against the spirit of normalization and harms the good will of Kosovo in achieving the normalization of relations through dialogue”, stated in the communiqué.