A ‘unity team’ to strip Kosovo? (Prishtina Insight)
By: Shpend Kursani Kosovo President Hashim Thaci’s initiative for a “unity team” to represent Kosovo in negotiations with Serbia may strip Kosovo’s statehood down to its last item of clothing. In a recently published piece in local media, Kosovo President Hashim Thaci flexed the idea of a “unity team” as a way to approach the […]
Read More →Kosovo: Domestic Entrepreneurship and Help From the Diaspora (IMF News)
Kosovo’s economy has been growing at an average of 3.4 percent since the landlocked country declared its independence in 2008. Its growth has been supported both by the international community, including the IMF, and also by its own people that work outside the country. We talked with Bedri Hamza, who was Governor of the Central […]
Read More →UNMIK Headlines 28 September
• Hoxhaj indicates turning point in dialogue with Serbia (media)
• O’Connell: Supreme Court enabled “criminals” to run for election (Zeri)
• Justice Minister Tahiri supports current border demarcation agreement (Koha)
• KSF Minister Berisha meets COMKFOR Major General Fungo (Zeri)
• Kosovo fails to meet 22 priorities agreed upon with EU in 2016 (Koha)
Weakened Merkel is Bad News For the Balkans (Balkan Insight)
By: Marcus Tanner An enfeebled Angela Merkel means a weaker, less courageous Germany – which will not do any of the Balkan states hoping to join the EU any favours. Like Britain’s Theresa May, Angela Merkel has come out of her general election looking a lot weaker than when she went in. Weeks ago, the […]
Read More →Montenegro Snubs Kosovo Plea to Review Border Deal (Balkan Insight)
In an attempt to convince neighbouring Montenegro to review the controversial border deal, Kosovo’s Foreign Minister has visited Podgorica – but without apparent results, as yet. Despite the visit to Montenegro of Kosovo’s new Foreign Minister, Behgjet Pacolli, on Tuesday, the deadlock between the two countries over their border demarcation agreement – which Kosovo MPs […]
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