KJC might face problems if its new members are not appointed
(KTV)
There has been five months since the Kosovo Judicial Council (KJC) met for the last time. Since then, a lot of work has remained unfinished, due to lack of quorum in this institution.
The members, who get appointed by the Assembly of Kosovo, have blocked the KJC’s work. According to the KJC Head, appointment of most of the members by the Assembly is in fact the problem on itself, as the politics indirectly influence on the judiciary through this appointment.
EU made remarks about this form of appointment. Ministry of Justice addressed the EU recommendation to the Assembly, but MPs of the previous legislation did not vote for it.
The person nominated for the Head of Assembly legislation committee said that the moment that the Committee will be functionalized, appointment of KJC members will be a priority.
Bahtiri condemns physical attack of ‘Serb extremists’ against Shosholli
(Klan Kosova)
Mitrovicë/Mitrovica municipality mayor Agim Bahtiri harshly condemned the physical attack, as his media reaction reads, of ‘Serb extremists’ against
Lavdim Shosholli, a 28-year old resident of Bosniak Neighbourhood in Mitrovica/Mitrovicë north.
Bahtiri considers that “the ugly action of the Serb extremists’ group, which happens after quite a long period of relative peace and significant improvement of interethnic relations in this part of the town, aims to damage these relations, to aggravate the situation and do the ethnic cleansing of Albanians from neighbourhoods in the north, which was stopping.”
Fight against corruption remains only a political promise
(KTV)
Pledges of the most senior leaders of Kosovo institutions that fight against organized crime and corruption remains their priority is not being implemented into practice, as the trend of the number of corruption cases that have reached statute of limitation is increasing.
There are hundreds of thousands of cases, which have reached the statute of limitation or backlogged, while a big number of them are mainly related to corruption.
Since 4 November 2013, the Kosovo Prosecutorial Council started implementing the Action Plan for solving corruption cases with priority; however, over a year and a half after, not even half of this Plan has been completed.
