Confessions of an Islamic State fighter (The Economist)
Fitim Lladrovci travelled to Syria to fight a holy war. Now back in Kosovo, he continues to call for jihad. Alexander Clapp is granted a rare interview See at: https://bit.ly/2KHtIso
Read More →Plans for land swaps in Kosovo and Serbia run into the ground (The Economist)
“EVERY idiot with a map and rifle is getting excited,” says an international official in Pristina, the capital of Kosovo, still barred from membership of the United Nations ten years after it unilaterally declared independence from Serbia. Serbs and Albanians have been transfixed as their leaders have recently discussed swapping pieces of territory populated by […]
Read More →Kosovo’s long, slow recovery (The Economist)
IN 1991 Armend Malazogu leapt off the back of an army lorry. Then aged 18, the Kosovo Albanian was escaping being drafted into Serbia’s fight with Croatia. The Yugoslav civil wars were just beginning and would eventually spread to Kosovo. Now, 18 years after the end of the Kosovo war and almost ten after the […]
Read More →The EU must show the Balkans they still have a chance of joining (The Economist)
Europe’s inner courtyard is drifting towards crime and authoritarianism http://econ.st/2sWwAWU
Read More →UNMIK Headlines 20 May
• 26 political entities to participate on 11 June elections (RTK)
• Ymeri: Acceptance of election results depends on their flow (Lajmi)
• Hoyt Yee writes to Arbana Xharra (Lajmi.net)
• The chaotic western Balkans take sudden turn for the better (The Economist)
Moscow is regaining sway in the Balkans (The Economist)
Aid, warplanes and propaganda convince Serbs that Russia is their friend http://www.economist.com/news/europe/21717390-aid-warplanes-and-propaganda-convince-serbs-russia-their-friend-moscow-regaining-sway
Read More →The Yugoslav tribunal shuts down, a Kosovo tribunal starts up (The Economist)
Today’s war-crimes tribunals have more modest aims than in the past http://www.economist.com/news/europe/21714385-todays-war-crimes-tribunals-have-more-modest-aims-past-yugoslav-tribunal-shuts
Read More →Clinton-lands (The Economist)
The end of an era in Kosovo, Bosnia, Serbia and beyond
Read More →Applications deferred (The Economist)
A region still enthusiastic about the European Union is being rebuffed http://www.economist.com/news/europe/21700685-region-still-enthusiastic-about-european-union-being-rebuffed-applications-deferred
Read More →A setback for Kosovo amid bitter rows over its ancient churches (The Economist)
THERE is something supremely changeless about the daily rites of an Orthodox Christian monastery, such as the 700-year-old community of Visoki Decani on the western fringe of Kosovo, which occupies one of the most aesthetically graceful, and gloriously decorated, religious monuments in Europe. But in recent days the abbot, Sava Janjic, has been combining his […]
Read More →Knocking on heaven’s door (The Economist)
EVER since the end of the Balkan wars in 1999, the most important question in the region has been when and how to join the European Union. Slovenia made it in 2004 and Croatia followed in 2013. For the rest, however, the goal is still far off. The prospects of Albania, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro […]
Read More →Where the past isn’t even past (The Economist)
A special court to try Kosovars for war crimes moves closer
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