Flow of asylum seekers from Kosovo drops sharply in Germany (Deutsche Welle)
The number of Kosovars asking for asylum has fallen by 94 percent in the last two months, according to a German official. Berlin has said the vast majority of migrants are economic, and will not be allowed to stay. During early February, German officials would get up 1,500 asylum request from Kosovars every day. However, […]
Read More →Kosovo: Disinherited women (Deutsche Welle)
Women in Kosovo often fail to receive their inheritance. Albanian cultural traditions dating back to the Middle Ages, known as “Kanun”, state that only men can own property. Kanun has long been officially obsolete. Yet many women find they have to go to court to fight for their inheritance. Local authorities and women’s rights organizations […]
Read More →UNMIK Headlines 30 March
• Serbian List, eight-month deadline to government for Association (Koha)
• North reacts on dissolving of Civil Protection (Zeri)
• Vulin: Kosovo is not independent (Zeri)
• Limaj: I won’t remain silent (Zeri)
• Collaku: Number of citizens who left Kosovo is not 200,000 (Epoka e Re)
Kosovo wants to curb mass migration to Germany (DW)
“It is very distressing that people leave,” Kosovo’s Foreign Minister Hashim Thaci said in Berlin on Monday during a meeting with German top diplomat Frank-Walter Steinmeier. “We are making efforts to create jobs, so that people have a future in Kosovo,” Thaci added.At the same time, he called for an easing of visa restrictions for […]
Read More →Kosovo-EU migration turns into political point scoring in Serbia (DW)
There’s no end in sight to the flood of refugees from Kosovo into the EU. It’s a touchy issue in transit country, Serbia. Politicians are using the situation to score points, and conspiracy theories are rife. A group of mostly young men crowd together at the bus depot in Belgrade. They’re tense as they try […]
Read More →UNMIK Headlines 18 February
• Assembly marks independence anniversary with special session (Kosova Sot)
• Bavaria to return Kosovo migrants within few weeks (Epoka e Re)
• Veseli: Kosovo people are not fleeing from luxury (RTK)
• Talks on service liberalization within CEFTA underway (Koha Ditore)
Merkel urges ‘fair’ distribution of migrants in Europe (Deutsche Welle)
In view of the current mass exodus from Kosovo, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called for a fair distribution of asylum seekers within the European Union. The situation of refugees in the EU is “very unsatisfactory,” Merkel said in her weekly video podcast, which was released on Saturday. Europe must “offer the refugees reasonable conditions […]
Read More →Germany to send police officers to help stem Kosovo exodus (DW)
Germany has said it plans to send a number of police officers to join efforts to stem a tide of migrants from Kosovo trying to enter the EU. The exodus is posing problems for both Germany and Kosovo. Germany’s interior ministry announced on Thursday that it was sending 20 Federal Police officers to border between […]
Read More →Kosovo population drain challenges Germany’s refugee policies (Deutsche Welle)
The number of Kosovars seeking asylum in the EU has drastically increased. It poses a challenge to recipient countries in the region, including Germany, and is on the agenda at Kosovo-Serbia talks in Brussels. Seven years after declaration of independence from Serbia, Kosovo is seeing a dramatic rise in the number of its citizens leaving […]
Read More →A thin red line between Serbs and Albanians in Kosovo (Deutsche Welle)
As Kosovo and Serbia resume EU-mediated talks on normalizing relations on Monday, the demonstrations in Pristina, the most significant unrest since the former province of Serbia declared independence in 2008, indicate that Kosovars’ growing impatience may present a new hurdle to the dialogue. The protests were sparked by comments from an ethnic Serb minister in […]
Read More →UNMIK Headlines 5 February
• UN chief expects Kosovo to address its many challenges (dailies)
• Thaci: Jablanovic wasn’t dismissed because of opposition’s pressure (RTK)
• Serbia threatens with forming its own army in the north (Indeksonline)
• Serbian List problems bring about need for constitutional changes (Koha)
• Zero chances for Kosovo asylum-seekers in Germany (Epoka e Re)
Kosovo political leaders to declare: “Habemus Governo” (DW/Gazeta Blic)
Head of Deutsche Welle’s Albanian service, Vilma Filaj-Ballvora, writes in an opinion piece that disagreements between political leaders in Kosovo seem to be matters of perception and irrational interpretations of the Constitutions by the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK), on one hand, and the post-election coalition, on the other. The entire debate right now is […]
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