The former leader of the Vetevendosje Movement, Albin Kurti, writes in an opinion piece today that the teargas that he threw at the Assembly of Kosovo last week was of small quantity and it was no mass attack, arguing that lots of cans with teargas were thrown in the past towards Vetevendosje activists and dissatisfied protesters.  “Moreover, we did not use rubber bullets on Thursday. What is this hysteria and this panic?”

The paper’s editor Lavdim Hamidi, writes in an opinion piece today that the President of the Assembly, Kadri Veseli, should be held accountable for the latest developments in the Assembly. According to the author, Veseli should not call a session without creating workable conditions for it. "Even with unreasonable actions of the opposition trying to prevent the session, the ruling parties had the tendency to adopt laws in such conditions. This way of adopting laws will not contribute at all in unblocking the work of the Assembly.

Naser Sertolli writes that the political crisis in Kosovo is deepening each day, due to the objections of the opposition parties on the establishment of the Association/Community of Serb majority municipalities and demarcation of the border with Montenegro. This crisis notes Sertolli, has distracted the attention from some of the major developments in the region and further, which have even reached proportions of global crisis.

The Kosovo Centre for Security Studies supported by European Union Office in Kosovo, yesterday organized a round-table where it was debated on the challenges that journalists face when reporting on violent extremism in Kosovo. During the meeting it was said that Kosovo journalists should be careful when reporting on matters related to religious radicalism and extremism. Journalist Florie Ademi said that the media should be more responsible and balanced, while journalists need to be more specialized in reporting on matters of religion.

“He knows very well that the current blockade by the opposition is not related to the Association or Demarcation, because these two issues cannot be undone.

Leader of the Liberal Democratic Party Cedomir Jovanovic should dump another bucket of cold water on himself, said Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Djuric as response to the views which Jovanovic has presented in an interview with the Pristina daily Zeri.