Kosovo officials hospitalized after opening ballot boxes (The Washington Post)
More than 20 Central Election Commission officials have been taken to the hospital with health problems after opening five ballot boxes from Serbia, authorities in Kosovo said Sunday. Twenty-six officials had allergic reactions and skin problems after opening the ballot boxes, local media Kosovapress reported. Emergency center doctors said all had itching and reddened skin. […]
Read More →Kosovar Vote Count Halted After Skin Problems Linked To Serbian Ballot Boxes (RFE)
Vote counting has been suspended in Kosovo after several Central Election Commission officials reported health problems after opening five ballot boxes from Serbia. Avdyl Pacolli, head of an emergency clinic in the capital Pristina, told RFE/RL on October 13 that those affected said they had allergic reactions and skin problems. A Kosovo police official confirmed […]
Read More →Kosovo’s Election Winner Says Peace Impossible Unless Serbia Faces Its Past (RFE/RL)
Albin Kurti, the leader of Kosovo’s leftist-nationalist Vetevendosje (Self-Determination) party that won a plurality of votes in parliamentary elections, said that dialogue with Serbia has to include the “recognition of Kosovo’s independence.” Speaking to RFE/RL on October 10 in Pristina, the country’s likely future prime minister also said that unless Serbia faces its past, there […]
Read More →Red Star Belgrade refused Kosovo entry for Serbian Cup game against FK Trepca (BBC)
Red Star Belgrade said they are “bitterly disappointed” after a Serbian Cup game was postponed when their team bus was refused entry to neighbouring Kosovo. Red Star, who are in the same Champions League group as Tottenham, were set to play FK Trepca on Tuesday. The match was due to take place in the disputed […]
Read More →Kosovo Bans Serbian Team from Match in North (Balkan Insight)
Kosovo Police stopped Red Star Belgrade football team from entering the country on Wednesday, saying it had no permission to play a match with a local team in the Serb-dominated north. Kosovo authorities on Wednesday banned a football match from taking place in the disputed Serb-dominated north of the country between Serbian club Red Star […]
Read More →Trump’s envoy visits Kosovo in push for new talks with Serbia (Reuters)
A special envoy of U.S. President Donald Trump arrived in Kosovo on Wednesday three days after it held an election, in a new push to restart talks with Serbia to reach a final deal that would pave the way for Kosovo’s membership in the United Nations. Kosovo, a former province of Serbia, declared independence in […]
Read More →Trump Gave Grenell Full Mandate to Clinch a Quick Deal on Kosovo (Bloomberg)
The new U.S. envoy for Kosovo was given a full mandate by President Donald Trump to achieve an agreement between Pristina and neighbor Serbia as soon as possible, according to an official close to Kosovo President Hashim Thaci who did not want to be named. Richard Grenell, who’s also the U.S. ambassador to Berlin, spoke […]
Read More →Kosovo’s Likely Next PM Meets U.S. Envoy (RFERL)
The leader of the center-left party that won a plurality of votes in Kosovo’s October 6 early parliamentary elections has met with the new U.S. special envoy to Kosovo and Serbia, Richard Grenell. Albin Kurti, who is poised to become Kosovo’s next prime minister, met with Grenell at the U.S. Embassy in Kosovo’s capital, Pristina. […]
Read More →US envoy tries to spark talks between Kosovo and Serbia (Financial Times)
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Read More →Trump Envoy to Visit Kosovo After Opposition Wins Snap Election (Bloomberg)
U.S. President Donald Trump’s new envoy to Serbia and Kosovo will visit the region days after elections in the smaller of the two neighbors raise the possibility of fresh efforts to end one of the Balkans’ most stubborn disputes. Richard Grenell, who’ll also retain his role as ambassador to Berlin, will arrive Wednesday in Kosovo, President Hashim […]
Read More →Kosovo Election Winner Not In Hurry To Renew Serbia Talks (RFE)
The leader of the center-left party that won a plurality of votes in Kosovo’s early parliamentary elections on October 6 says he isn’t hankering to restart formal talks designed to normalize relations with neighboring Serbia. In an interview with the Associated Press published on October 8, Vetevendosje party chief Albin Kurti, who is poised to […]
Read More →Kosovo Election Winner Vetevendosje Seeks Coalition Partner (Balkan Insight)
Talks on forming a new government in Kosovo are due to start soon after the opposition Vetevendosje party came first in Sunday’s snap parliamentary elections. The party has made clear it wishes to seek to form a coalition government with another former opposition party, the Democratic League of Kosovo, LDK. With 98.15 per cent of […]
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