UNMIK Headlines 7 March
• Ruling coalition without agreement on government reshuffle yet (Koha)
• Mustafa denies reports of a new Serb-majority municipality (dailies)
• “Kosovo will seek compensation from Serbia for last war” (Kosovapress)
• Veseli starts battle to take over PDK leadership (Zeri)
• Mustafa: Solving the political killings, priority for government (Zeri)
• Fire set to LDK Beqiri’s car (RTK)
• Demolli: Political crisis delaying creation of armed forces (Kosova Sot)
• Kosovo’s Ministry of Trade warns to block Serbian trucks (Koha)
• “Serbian elections will be held in Kosovo too” (Zeri)
UNMIK Headlines 3 March
• United opposition announces next protest (Epoka)
• Thaci: I will be a different President (Epoka)
• AAK claims Thaci’s election is anti-constitutional (Telegrafi)
• Ymeri: Justice is being selective (Zeri)
• “Serbia’s behavior might delay establishment of the Association” (Epoka)
• Collaku: Visa regime to be lifted this year (Zeri)
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs unblocks decreeing of ambassadors (Koha)
UNMIK Headlines 21 January
• Establishment of special court in violation of Constitution of Kosovo (Koha)
• Tahiri: Serbia’s parliamentary elections will not be held in Kosovo (Koha)
• Lunacek: Neither Belgrade nor Pristina implemented agreements (Koha)
• Opposition against Thaci for President (Zeri/Top Channel)
• “Opposition’s violence linked to special court” (Zeri)
• Political crisis is blocking the army (Kosova Sot)
• Lushtaku rushed to Pristina hospital and sent back to prison (Koha Ditore)
UNMIK Headlines 18 January
• Pristina-Belgrade dialogue to continue without Mustafa? (Koha Ditore)
• Mustafa: I will not resign (dailies)
• Haradinaj: People’s patience running thin (Koha Ditore)
• Thaci President, Veseli Prime Minister (Zeri)
• Grabovci: Assembly sessions to resume soon (Zeri)
• Kadaj-Bujupi: Opposition will block sessions (Epoka e Re)
• Municipality staff enter hunger strike to sympathise with Lushtaku (dailies)
Four persons arrested in anti-terror operation in Italy and Kosovo (media)
The Tirana-based TV station Top Channel reports that the Italian Police, in cooperation with the Kosovo Police, launched an anti-terror operation in the city of Brescia. Italian authorities said the operation code-named “Van Damme” resulted in the breakup of a terror group that was using social networks to spread the Jihadi ideology. The mastermind of […]
Read More →UNMIK Headlines 1 December
• Veseli: We urgently need a political solution (Epoka e Re)
• Derguti: Dialogue with Government, impossible (Epoka e Re)
• EU countries: Obstruction unacceptable, return to dialogue (dailies)
• O’Connell: Opposition’s place is in the Assembly (Telegrafi)
• AI calls for urgent investigation into Kosovo Police actions (Zeri)
• Lunacek: Kurti’s arrest at a bad time (Zeri)
• Lavdrim Muhaxheri, Ridvan Haqifi are believed to be in FYROM (Koha)
• Kosovo Police arrest terror suspect in Hani i Elezit (Kosovapress)
• Four arrested in anti-terror operation in Italy and Kosovo (Top Channel)
• ISIS graffiti in northern Kosovo (Zeri)
• Mustafa, Gashi hand over their deputy mandates (Epoka e Re)
• Poll: PDK ranks first, followed by Vetevendosje (media)
UNMIK Headlines 9 November
• US, Germany fighting for every vote in Kosovo’s UNESCO bid (Zeri)
• Possible scenarios of UNESCO vote (Epoka e Re)
• Thaci: Serbia is running racist campaign against Kosovo in UNESCO (Zeri)
• Veseli wants special Assembly session on topics raised by opposition (Koha)
• Ban condemns violence in Kosovo Assembly (RTK)
• Opposition warns for escalation of situation (Zeri)
• AAK: We will not permit session on budget (Kosova Sot)
• Veseli: There is no petition in the Assembly (Zeri)
• MP receives threatening message after conflict with PDK in Prizren (Koha)
Abrashi: Current government to conclude all issues with Serbia (Telegrafi)
Arban Abrashi, spokesperson of the Kosovo Government and Minister of Labour and Social Welfare said in an interview for Tirana’s Top Channel television that the opposition wants to send Kosovo to early elections but that this is unacceptable. He said that the actions of the opposition at the Assembly are uncivilized, undemocratic and vandalistic and […]
Read More →UNMIK Headlines 25 September
• Thaci praises Vucic’s constructive role in agreements reached (Koha)
• Collaku: SAA this year, visa liberalization next year (Zeri)
• “We will not support KAF law if it makes ethnic divisions” (Telegrafi)
• Aleksandar Jablanovic dismissed as leader of Serbian List (Zeri)
• Ahtisaari strongly supports Kosovo’s UNESCO admission (RTK)
• Pristina Hospital with luxury apartments for VIP prisoners (Koha)
• KIC: No one from Kosovo injured in Mecca stampede (Kosova Sot)
UNMIK Headlines 17 September
• Mustafa fears facing MPs on agreements with Serbia (Koha)
• Jahjaga: I didn’t influence breakup of opposition bloc in 2014 (RTK)
• O’Connell: Energies to be focused on real problems, not demarcation (Koha)
• Tahiri seeks reward from Brussels (dailies)
• Government adopts anti-radicalism strategy (Zeri)
• KSF to transform into army without constitutional changes (Epoka e Re)
• O’Connell: Implement the agreements reached in Brussels (Epoka e Re)
• “Association/Community limits Kosovo’s sovereignty” (Zeri)
• Ibrahimi admits there is crime within the judiciary (Koha)
• Association of Albanian municipalities does not pass (Epoka e Re)
UNMIK Headlines 16 September
• Thaci: UN membership doesn’t define statehood (RTK)
• Jahjaga: Serbia will recognize Kosovo’s independence (RTK/Top Channel)
• O’Connell: EU will not allow deviations in the Association (Koha)
• “No Association without disintegration of parallel structures” (Epoka)
• Opposition says agreements must be ratified in the Assembly (Zeri)
• Zbogar on visa liberalization: I see light at the end of the tunnel (dailies)
• Observation points removed, Civil Protection still active (Zeri)
• Kocijancic: We expect Serbia to implement minority conventions (Epoka)
• This is the document of Presevo Valley (Epoka)