Mushkolaj: The bitter taste of defeat (Express)
Political commentator and reporter, Imer Mushkolaj, writes in an opinion piece that “losing the elections leaves one with a bitter taste. Parties from the PAN [PDK-AAK-NISMA] coalition might have experienced it badly, but the people had an even worst experience with their governance. An arrogant and irresponsible governance”. Mushkolaj argues that countless delays by the […]
Read More →EU Enlargement: The Balkans Brexit Fallout (Balkan Insight)
Some may wish the EU would simply honour its earlier commitment to integrate the Balkans region, but the time for wishful thinking has long passed writes Timothy Less from Cambridge University. Today, European leaders will almost certainly again reject the request by Albania and North Macedonia to open negotiations on EU membership. In doing so, […]
Read More →Serbia’s President Was Real Loser in Kosovo Election (Balkan Insight)
Whatever the final shape of the new government in Kosovo, it is clear that Serbs will have far less influence on it than the last one, writes Serbian journalist and editor Milenko Vasovic. In terms of votes alone, the biggest loser in the recent parliamentary elections in Kosovo was Ramush Haradinaj, the former prime minister […]
Read More →Kelmendi: Return to 2007 (Koha Ditore)
Adriatik Kelmendi, author of Rubikon show on KTV and columnist, writes in an opinion piece that U.S. President Trump’s decision to appoint Richard Grenell as his special envoy for the Kosovo – Serbia talks comes after failed efforts to normalise relations between Kosovo and Serbia by EU mediators. He recalls that the last time when […]
Read More →Surroi: The name of the change (Koha Ditore)
“LVV and LDK face only one alternative: making this country normal or leaving it the way it is,” writes publicist Veton Surroi in an opinion piece published in Koha Ditore today. Surroi says that an unusual day dawned in Kosovo on Monday, a day after early parliamentary elections: “This day had something more than what […]
Read More →Who speaks in the name of LDK? And what is now the first and foremost duty of Albin Kurti? (Dialogplus)
By Enver Robelli There are over 195 thousand voters of LDK and these want an answer to: what now? but they want the answer from the party, the leader, the general assembly – and not private unauthorized persons. Now the moment of truth has come. And in the moments of truth, the ones that got […]
Read More →Robelli: The day has come to believe! (Koha Ditore)
Columnist Enver Robelli writes today in the paper that the Kosovo electorate has handed over a joint victory to Vetevendosje and the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) and the two need to demonstrate historic responsibility in managing it. “There should be no room for triumphant and excluding poses towards one another. The one that comes […]
Read More →A victory that goes beyond politics (Prishtina Insight)
Sunday’s election results were a political earthquake that will resonate beyond the formation of the next government. The electorate have exhibited a refusal to surrender to the blackmail and nepotism that have been endemic in Kosovar politics for the last 20 years, writes Eraldin Fazliu in an opinion piece. He says Vetevendosje’s victory in yesterday’s […]
Read More →Shala: No finale without unity (Lajmi)
Blerim Shala, advisor to Kosovo President Hashim Thaci, argues in an opinion piece that, “political unity among Kosovars is the key that can open the doors to the finale of the dialogue with Serbia and mutual recognition between the two states”. Shala recalls that the United States and the four biggest Western countries (which up […]
Read More →Solutions for these elections (Prishtina Insight)
Jeta Xharra, Country Director of BIRN office in Kosovo and editor-in-chief of TV programme, Life in Kosovo, writes in an op-ed for Prishtina Insight that Kosovo requires hard work and practical solutions to cure many of the ills plaguing it. “Kosovars are now being promised that if the tariff is removed, Kosovo’s path to ‘prosperity’ […]
Read More →Kosovo women need answers not an ‘iron lady’ (Prishtina Insight)
Despite being the only woman running for the position of prime minister in Kosovo’s upcoming elections, Vjosa Osmani is not addressing the needs of the country’s women, writes Shqipe Gjocaj in an op-ed for Prishtina Insight. Gjocaj says Osmani’s rhetoric during the pre-election campaign in Kosovo is not much different to that adopted by the […]
Read More →Surroi: Good news before October 6 (Koha Ditore)
Publicist Veton Surroi writes in an opinion piece that the upcoming parliamentary elections in Kosovo, which will be held on October 6, “have produced good news even before they are held” because the new government could be led by either Vetevendosje’s (VV) Albin Kurti or LDK’s Vjosa Osmani, the Haradinaj-led Alliance for the Future of […]
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