PRISTINA, Kosovo — The nomination of Kosovo’s new prime minister has been delayed after the winners of the June 11 election failed to gather enough votes to elect the new parliament speaker.
Former leaders of Kosovo’s war of independence from Serbia, who have won 39 seats, on Thursday told the parliament so far they have secured only 60 votes in the 120-seat parliament and asked for two more weeks.
Albania’s prime minister is urging Serbia to recognize Kosovo as a separate country, saying the acknowledgement would help stabilize the Balkan region.
Prime Minister Edi Rama wrote on his Facebook page Tuesday that Serbia’s recognition of Kosovo’s independence was “the clear solution from the darkness of the tunnel to the light of coming out of it.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/albanias-premier-urges-serbia-to-recognize-breakaway-kosovo/2017/07/25/4fe9945e-7142-11e7-8c17-533c52b2f014_story.html?utm_term=.3f007d887f9a
Events in the Western Balkans twice cast a long shadow across Europe in the past century — first in 1914 and then in the 1990s. Both times, the forces unleashed by the carnage could not be contained within the existing international order. And in both instances, proffered solutions failed to resolve the underlying tensions that brought about the conflicts in the first place.
A Kosovo court has sentenced an Albanian citizen who had put a flag of the Islamic State group at a crossroad in the capital Pristina to 180 hours of community labor.
When the U.S. intervenes abroad, we say it's justified. When Russia does the same, we say it isn't.
We don’t know how effective Russian President Vladimir Putin’s efforts were to get President Trump elected. We don’t know whether leaked documents, disinformation campaigns, or actual Russian agents joined forces with Trump to sink Hillary Clinton. But the evidence is clear, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that Putin expressed a preference.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/04/20/why-did-putin-oppose-clinton-decades-of-american-hypocrisy/?utm_term=.fb69f3de4f9d
Kosovo officially declared independence from Serbia in 2008. The Muslim-majority nation had been administered by the United Nations since 1999, when NATO bombed Serbia — a move that forced then-President Slobodan Milosevic to withdraw his troops from the breakaway province.
Kosovo prosecutors say they have charged a citizen with participating in terror groups after the person joined fighters from the Islamic State group in Syria.
Klan Kosova carries an opinion piece by Sandra Joireman originally published by The Washington Post.
Smoke, shouting, chaos and tear gas are the staples of a riot — or an assembly session in Kosovo. It has become common for opposition parties in this western Balkan state to delay votes through the use of tear gas and other obstructionist tactics. It happens so often that the government had to get more powerful metal detectors and augment the building’s ventilation system.