NEWS ‘Balkan Spring’ Protests Will Reach Kosovo, Kurti Predicts (Balkan Insight)
The leader of the Kosovo opposition Vetevendosje movement says he is convinced Kosovo will see the same kind of mass protests against corrupt governments that other Western Balkan countries have seen. The leader of the Kosovo opposition Vetevendosje [Self-Determination] Movement, Albin Kurti, says Kosovo can expect the same push on the streets for political change […]
Read More →Main Kosovo Serb Party Will Run in Snap Elections (Balkan Insight)
The Belgrade-backed Srpska Lista party on Wednesday said it will take part in early elections in May in the north, if only to stop Kosovo Albanians from taking over the municipalities it runs. The main Serbian party in Kosovo, Srpska Lista, which is backed by the Serbian government, on Wednesday announced that it will participate […]
Read More →Kosovo to Build Museum Commemorating Wartime Refugees (Balkan Insight)
Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj led a ceremony marking the beginning of construction of a museum in the village of Bllaca to commemorate hundreds of thousands of Kosovo Albanians who fled to Macedonian territory during the war. Ramush Haradinaj told a ceremony in the village of Bllaca in the border zone between Kosovo and North Macedonia […]
Read More →Rita Ora surprises 400 schoolchildren back home in her native Kosovo to support Soccer Aid for UNICEF 2019 (Daily Mail)
Award-winning singer Rita Ora has returned back to her native Kosovo on a humanitarian mission with Soccer Aid. The 28-year-old British icon, who has been a campaigner and advocate of the global charity since 2013, surprised more than 400 children at the Activate event in the capital of Prishtina on Wednesday after arriving in the […]
Read More →OSCE Broadcast 10 April
History of elections in North: Voting, murders, violence and politics (Klan Kosova) Kosovo symbols in ballot papers of elections in the north, according to CEC (GazetaExpress) CEC approves Operational Plan for organisation of elections in the north (KTV) Serbs again warn to quit institutions and destabilise north (KTV) Sherifi: Srpska Lista conveyed the message that […]
Read More →Hahn says US, EU want Western Balkans in Union (Beta, N1)
European Commissioner Johannes Hahn said in Washington on Wednesday that the United States and European Union want to bring the Western Balkans into the EU. Our shared goal on both sides of the Atlantic is to stabilize the region and bring all six Western Balkan countries into the EU based on established conditions. That’s in […]
Read More →Fatherland Movement: Participation in elections in north of Kosovo contrary to Serbian Constitution (BETA, Danas)
National Movement Fatherland from Kosovo and Metohija, headed by Slavisa Ristic, urged all Serbs in the north of Kosovo to boycott mayoral elections in the four northern municipalities, BETA news agency reported. “By taking part in these elections the Serbs as people are only legalizing and legitimizing yet another Albanian state in the Balkans. This […]
Read More →Alliance for Serbia agrees to form Alliance for Kosovo and Metohija (KoSSev, N1, Beta)
”The Alliance for Serbia supports the idea of creating an Alliance for Kosovo and Metohija – a sister organization, so that the voices of the Kosovo Serbs can be heard much more often and for them to be able to have a decisive influence on Serbia’s policy towards Kosovo, ” the Alliance for Serbia and […]
Read More →Vucic, Thaci expect nothing; meeting may have different goal (Vecernje Novosti, Srpski Telegraf, B92, Tanjug)
Another motive may be hiding behind the German-French invitation to Serb and Albanian leaders to gather in Berlin under the slogan of cooperation in the region. This motive could be, according to media reports, to exert pressure on Belgrade to agree to continue the dialogue with Pristina, without Pristina abolishing its tariffs on Serbian products […]
Read More →MP and journalist Lazanski to become Serbia’s new ambassador to Russia (Vecernje Novosti, B92)
Serbia’s new ambassador to Russia will be Miroslav Lazanski, a member of the Serbian National Assembly from the ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), and a military commentator. The proposal to name Lazanski as the head of our embassy in Moscow was adopted at a government session last week, Vecernje Novosti daily reported. Lazanski will be […]
Read More →UNMIK Headlines 11 April
• Germany and France to gather Western Balkans leaders on 29 April (media)
• Haradinaj: I am not requested to lift tariff anymore (media)
• Serbian List to take part in elections in the north (media)
• Daka: Elections in the north with Kosovo symbols (T7/Bota Sot)
• “Serbs’ decision to go to polls can initiate resumption of dialogue” (media)
• Thaci: Appalled by offensive statements of officials in Belgrade (RTK)
• Hoxhaj: Insulting war victims should be legally banned (Epoka e Re)
• Hoti: Impossible to negotiate with those who dispute Recak massacre (media)
• Rasic on Recak massacre: Respect for all the victims (RTK)
• Phillips: Border correction, bad idea (Bota Sot)
• Lluka: Serbia knows the whereabouts of each missing person (Telegrafi)
• MPs call for extraordinary session on youth fleeing Kosovo (media)
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