War for Democracy (Gazeta Express)
The General Secretary of the Alliance for The Future of Kosovo (AAK,) Burim Randani, writes that for years, irresponsible individuals lead Kosovo towards a serious state of anarchy. “These individuals do not know what democracy is. They only recognize the language of money, bribe, and corruption. In other words, they only know about personal, family […]
Read More →Will the name of Prime Minister be pulled out from an envelope? (Gazeta Express)
Berat Buzhala considers that even if the Constitutional Court decides that the President should give Hashim Thaçi the mandate to create the new government, it is globally known that he does not have the sufficient numbers. Therefore, he says, if the Constitutional Court authorizes only the Democratic Party of Kosovo to create the new government, […]
Read More →Haradinaj and Dean discuss current developments in Kosovo (gazetaexpress)
Leader of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK,) Ramush Haradinaj, met today at AAK premises with the former U.S. Governor and Director of the Board of National Democratic Institute (NDI,) Howards Dean. They discussed the current developments in Kosovo and further cooperation of AAK with NDI, economic development, rule of law and European […]
Read More →Mustafa clarifies LDK’s position towards Pacolli and AKR (Express)
LDK leader, Isa Mustafa, said he offered cooperation to Pacolli but he refused because he was confident his party would pass election threshold. “I have contacted many political parties during the pre-election activity. I met several times with the leader of the Justice Party (PD), Movement for Unification (LB), Alliance for Future of Kosovo (AAK), […]
Read More →Kusari-Lila: Time to reflect (Express)
Deputy leader of New Kosovo Alliance (AKR), Mimoza Kusari-Lila said it is time for the party to reflect and take decisions about its structures. In a Facebook post, Kusari-Lila congratulated Kosovo on elections and said: “Time to reflect and decide for all political structures. The Kosovo voter demonstrated high democratic culture and civic value. Thank […]
Read More →UNMIK: Zarif requests SRSG high participation in elections (Express)
The Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) and Head of UNMIK, Farid Zarif, during his recent meetings in Belgrade, Pristina and Mitrovicë/Mitrovica, has stressed the critical importance of maximum participation of all communities throughout Kosovo, in Sunday’s Kosovo Assembly elections. Further in the UNMIK press release, Mr. Zarif has underlined that “diligent efforts must […]
Read More →Mustafa: Those who are using today’s tragedy for political gain should be held responsible (Express)
The leader of the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), Isa Mustafa, visited Obilic, where he said he was shaken by today’s explosion there. He accused the leader of the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK), Prime Minister Hashim Thaci, for trying to use the tragedy at the Kosovo Energy Corporation for political gain and for campaigning […]
Read More →Hydrogen explosion at KEK (Express, Telegrafi, Indeksonline)
Major explosion happened at the power plant Kosovo Energy Corporation (KEK,) outside Kosova A boilers. Sources said for Express that there are several people injured and there might be casualties as well. The detonation was heard in several parts of Pristina. Gazeta Express did not manage to confirm this news officially, since officials of this […]
Read More →Hashim Thaci’s two options, each worse than the other (Express)
Member of the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) Berat Buzhala writes in an opinion piece for Gazeta Express that if the leader of his party, Hashim Thaci, manages to score another victory and beat the largest opposition party, Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), this would be more a defeat of his main rival than an […]
Read More →Jessen-Petersen at a meeting with Haradinaj, welcomes “The new direction”
The leader of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK,) met with former UNMIK chief, Søren Jessen-Petersen. Haradinaj wrote on his social network page, Facebook, that Petersen has welcomed “New Direction,” (the motto of this party in the election campaign.) “It was a pleasure to meet with my friend and with the great friend […]
Read More →Le Monde: Mass grave in Serbia might be the biggest in Serbia (gazetaexpress)
Work on finding the bodies of the missing persons from Kosovo war has started in April in south-western Serbia. So far, 21 bodies of the missing Albanians have been found. Only yesterday, 17 bodies were found. According to the French daily, Le Monde, DNA tests for four bodies are still in process. There are many […]
Read More →Kosovars, top traffickers and trafficking victims (Express)
Human trafficking in Switzerland is a business mainly run by Kosovars. In 25 percent of discovered cases of trafficking, citizens of Kosovo were involved, found the 2013 annual report of the Swiss federal police. According to the report, the trafficking has taken on more sophisticated forms and it is no longer done only through illegal border […]
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