‘New chapter’: What a left-wing victory means for Kosovo (Al Jazeera)
The left-wing Vetevendosje, or Self Determination Movement party, won snap elections held on Sunday in Kosovo, with 25 percent of the vote. It was the fourth election in Europe’s youngest nation since it declared independence from Serbia in 2008. While Kosovo’s population is just 1.7 million, about a million diaspora Kosovo Albanians formed a large […]
Read More →Key Takeaways From Kosovo’s Watershed Vote (RFE)
The leader of the left-wing opposition party claiming a surprise victory in Kosovo’s parliamentary elections has pledged to start coalition talks to end the dominance of parties led by former independence fighters and turn a corner in Europe’s newest state. Onetime student leader Albin Kurti, of the upstart Self-Determination (Vetevendosje) party, vowed to turn to […]
Read More →Mission impossible: Next EU foreign policy chief warns of EU irrelevance (Reuters)
The European Union must learn to speak with one voice on the international stage and also develop a “military capacity to act” or slide into irrelevance, eclipsed by Washington and Beijing, its incoming foreign policy chief said on Monday. See at: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-commission-borrell/mission-impossible-next-eu-foreign-policy-chief-warns-of-eu-irrelevance-idUSKBN1WM1QW
Read More →New EU diplomatic head pledges focus on Balkans, Russia (Al Jazeera)
Josep Borrell urges bloc to stand firm on economic sanctions against Moscow until there is ‘tectonic change’ in Kremlin. The European Unions’s incoming foreign affairs chief said on Monday he would focus on the Balkans and Europe’s eastern neighbours, while urging the bloc to stand firm on sanctions against Russia. See at: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/10/eu-diplomatic-head-pledges-focus-balkans-russia-191007170121590.html
Read More →Kosovo Voters Want a New Future, but Old Problems Linger (NYT)
Ever since Kosovo ended its war with Serbia two decades ago, its dominant political figures have all been men who rose to prominence as fighters and held onto power despite failing to secure a lasting peace and presiding over a floundering economy. But in parliamentary elections on Sunday, a new generation of politicians offered them […]
Read More →Kosovo election: Opposition parties claim win (BBC)
Opposition parties have claimed the greatest number of votes in Kosovo’s general election. Centre-left Vetevendosje and centre-right Democratic League (LDK) are each expected to win about 25% of the vote. The election was called in July when Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj resigned to face questioning by a war crimes court in The Hague. https://bbc.in/31TsksJ
Read More →Two Opposition Parties Win Kosovo Parliamentary Elections (RFE)
Kosovo’s two major opposition parties — the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) and Vetevendosje — appear to have upended the ruling party, in power for 12 years, during snap parliamentary elections held on October 6. With nearly 96 percent of the ballots counted as of 3:56 a.m. local time on October 7, the website of […]
Read More →Opposition parties overturn Kosovo politics with election victory (Euronews)
Albanian nationalist opposition party Vetevendosje was poised for a narrow victory in Kosovo’s parliamentary elections, according to preliminary results early Monday, with another opposition party in close second. Election Commission results based on 80% of votes counted gave the party 26% of votes, slightly ahead of the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) party which won […]
Read More →We Know Why Vucic Considers BIRN the Enemy (Balkan Insight)
By attacking BIRN once again, Serbia’s President is, as usual, trying to divert his own public from social unrest, corruption scandals – and his increasingly authoritarian grip on institutions. Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and his proxies routinely label BIRN and its journalists liars and traitors. His well-practiced authoritarian concept of “enemies” and “foes” has been […]
Read More →For Serbia and Kosovo, Support Comes With Strings Attached (Bloomberg)
After 20 years, the two countries remain enemies. And the superpowers seem to want them to stay that way. For centuries, small countries have relied on bigger ones to protect them. The trick was to avoid becoming too much of a pawn in the greater game of the superpowers. Spanned by mountains that run more […]
Read More →Schoolbooks Perpetuate Kosovo-Serbia Divisions in Classrooms (Balkan Insight)
Kosovo Albanian and Kosovo Serb children are taught under different educational systems, using textbooks that give differing versions of history – and sometimes perpetuate ethnic prejudice and nationalist ideas, experts say. https://bit.ly/2n8Lw6u
Read More →Serbian president decries fine against Lista Srpska (Prishtina Insight)
Serbian president Aleksandar Vucic has condemned the 30,000 euro fine issued against Lista Srpska by Kosovo’s Elections Complaints and Appeals Panel following a complaint submitted by BIRN. In an interview for Radio Television Serbia, RTS, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic criticized a penalty of 30,000 euros administered to Belgrade-backed Kosovo Serb political party Lista Srpska. The […]
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