Balkan Religious Minorities Still Feel Excluded, US Says (Balkan Insight)
Religious minorities in the Balkans still struggle with a degree of discrimination and with a lack of official cooperation in regaining assets confiscated by the communist regimes, a US State Department report says. Despite progress in terms of legislation safeguarding equal rights for all religious minorities, most Balkan states still discriminate against some groups and […]
Read More →Government of Kosovo approves bill on religious freedoms (Telegrafi)
Government of Kosovo in its routine meeting today endorsed the draft law on religious freedoms in Kosovo paving way for the Assembly’s vote. Deputy Prime Minister, Hajredin Kuçi, said that draft law aims to recognise the legal status of religious communities. “Kosovo will respect religious communities by recognising their representatives but always by preserving secularism […]
Read More →UNMIK Headlines 11 August
• Lack of votes leads to postponement of demarcation vote (Koha Ditore)
• PDK and LDK support ratification of demarcation deal (Kosova Sot)
• Selimi: Demarcation will be undone by protests (Epoka e Re)
• Çollaku: If demarcation passes, visa liberalization by November (Zëri)
• Vučić: The solution is recognition of Kosovo, but we are not doing it (Epoka e Re)
• Mustafa: Serbia cannot block privatization in Kosovo (Koha Ditore)
• U.S. State Department: Obstacles to the functioning of religious groups (Epoka e Re)