Thaci: Gazivode, Mitrovica and Trepca will remain within Kosovo (RTK 2)
“I am convinced that with the final agreement Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja will belong to Kosovo, and I guarantee that Gazivode, Mitrovica North and Trepca will remain within Kosovo,” President Hashim Thaci said after the meeting with Pristina negotiating team, to which he delivered a report on the dialogue with Belgrade, RTK reported. As Thaci […]
Read More →Shpend Ahmeti: Neither Vucic nor Thaci are honest (Danas)
Neither Vucic nor Thaci informed us what they have discussed in Brussels, nor if they had other meetings. We in Pristina, received no information at all, and it seems also in Belgrade they do not know what Thaci and Vucic are talking about, Shpend Ahmeti, Pristina Mayor and leader of the Social-Democratic Party in Kosovo […]
Read More →Ahmeti: PSD will be a major force (Kosovapress)
Pristina Mayor and new leader of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) said the party will become one of the major players in the political landscape in Kosovo but that his priority remains leading Pristina municipality. Ahmeti said the new PSD leadership is open to cooperation with former colleagues from Vetevendosje.
Read More →Kosovo Social Democrats Elect Pristina Mayor as Leader (Balkan Insight)
Vetevendosje defector and Pristina Mayor Shpend Ahmeti has been elected the new leader of the Social Democratic Party – a party formed back in the 1990s, which has enjoyed little success since then. The Mayor of Pristina, Shpend Ahmeti, on Wednesday became the new leader of the Social Democratic Party, PSD, which he and a […]
Read More →Vetevendosje: Ahmeti joined those who worked against Vetevendosje (media)
Vetevendosje has reacted to the recent resignation of Pristina Mayor Shpend Ahmeti from the party saying it was disappointed with the decision. “We thank Shpend Ahmeti for his contribution to our victories and naturally we expect him no less than delivering on the promises he made on the behalf of the Movement in 2013 and […]
Read More →SRS about Rikalo: Whose interests Srpska Lista and imposed Serb representatives are protecting? (KoSSev portal)
“How will Nenad Rikalo protect the interests of the Serb people in our southern province, when he proudly notes the fact that “for four years he was a member of a board of the SOROS foundation, together with Shpend Ahmeti, Ilir Deda and other prominent intellectuals from Pristina?”” Serbian Radical Party (SRS) said to the […]
Read More →Police investigates threatening graffiti in Pristina (media)
Kosovo Police are investigating graffiti daubed on the walls of one of University of Pristina faculties against President of Kosovo Hashim Thaci, Mayor of Pristina Shpend Ahmeti, and the head of Kosovo’s Islamic Community Naim Ternava. The graffiti was discovered today and it threatens the three officials with death for allowing the construction of a […]
Read More →Ahmeti: Veseli’s statements remind me of Gruevski (Klan Kosova)
Shpend Ahmeti, Pristina mayor from Vetvendosje movement, said that the statements of the leader of the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK), Kadri Veseli and the others from the same party, remind him of former PM Gruevski from the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. “Parliamentarian republic and democracy are the same everywhere, majority is a majority. […]
Read More →Brussels’ Balkan approach: Little carrot, broken stick (EurActiv)
Shpend Ahmeti, mayor of Pristina and member of Vetevendosje general council, writes in an opinion piece for EurActiv that the people of Kosovo are losing patience with EU and are accusing it of prioritising Serbian accession over their own sovereignty. “The question is raised whether the EU still has something to offer to the Western […]
Read More →Headlines 12 December
• Kosovo PM Mustafa meets Montenegrin counterpart Markovic (dailies)
• Rakic: Wall will not be demolished, only shortened (Zeri)
• Parliamentary foreign affairs committee to discuss Mitrovica wall (RTK)
• Opposition calls for interruption of dialogue (Epoka e Re)
• Ahmeti: The wall is a symbol of division not reunification (Kosovapress)
• EU: Kosovo and Serbia implement agreement on justice (Epoka e Re)
• Telephone code for Kosovo* (Koha Ditore)
• FYROM elections: Close battle between Gruevski and Zaev (Telegrafi)
Shpend Ahmeti the nation builder (Politico.eu)
Kosovo may have taken an important step toward international recognition this year, when it joined FIFA and won Olympic gold in Rio. But for Shpend Ahmeti, the mayor of Pristina, building a nation begins on the ground. Since his election in 2013, the 38-year-old Harvard graduate, former World Bank economist and university professor has been […]
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