How neutrality towards statehood shaped the dimensions of EU actorness in Kosovo? This article offers an understanding how neutrality towards statehood of Kosovo was employed by the EU to seize opportunities, shape its ability and legitimise its role in Kosovo. It evidences the variations of the principle of “naturality towards statehood” and catalogues how neutrality is applied throughout EU activities in Kosovo. Kosovo's relations with the EU are unique and atypical. ‘Unique’ because of Kosovo’s long-standing quest for statehood running alongside to its democratic state-building and accession process. They are ‘atypical’ due to the novel legal pathways and policies that the European Union (EU) and Kosovo had to undergo to address the lack of consensus among EU Member States in relation to the recognition of Kosovo. Understanding these unique and atypical features requires not only the study of the legal process linked with state-building within Kosovo. It also questions the role and policies of the EU in conflict management and state-building process in Kosovo, and signal how these features impacted the variations and limitations of EU actorness. Partially, the literature about EU actorness in state-building process in Kosovo highlights the strategies through which EU institutions and the Member States applied to overcome internal constrains related to non-recognition of Kosovo by five EU member states. The findings reveal that the EU’s strong actorness in Kosovo was partially made possible by agreeing that diversity on recognition should not impede the EU unity in engagement. The studies moreover confirm that EU was constrained to apply the available toolbox when engaging with Kosovo due to the nature of contestations that stem from individual positions of five EU Member States. That being the reason why the EU's approach towards Kosovo, compared to other Wester Balkans countries, is modelled through policies that ensure an engagement continuum but that are, by their very nature, depicted as neutral vis a vis Kosovo statehood. Neutrality, developed into an EU mantra that serves a dual purpose. It is a legitimizing principle and an authorization mechanism to ensure the EU engagement with Kosovo, and vice-versa. This paper demonstrates that neutrality has no fixed definition and is broadly applied when shaping the EU's involvement in Kosovo. The article elucidates variations of neutrality and explains how neutrality was utilized by the EU and specific member states to authorize the EU missions in Kosovo and keep the latter part of the EU enlargement process.