Kosovo Opposition Force MPs to Flee Parliament (Balkan insight)
Ruling party MPs were forced to adopt the 2016 budget while barricaded in an alternative hall, after opposition MPs again threw tear gas in the main chamber.
Ruling party MPs were forced to adopt the 2016 budget while barricaded in an alternative hall, after opposition MPs again threw tear gas in the main chamber.
Sava Janjic, the Abbot of Visoki Decani Monastery, says Serbian heritage needs to be settled within the Brussels dialogue before any further discussion on UNESCO status.
http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/fr-sava-time-to-go-forward-and-start-dialogue-11-12-2015
The blockade of the Kosovo parliament caused by protesting opposition MPs who demand that the Prime Minister withdraws Kosovo's signature from the agreements with Serbia on an Association of Serbian Municipalities and with Montenegro on border demarcation has brought the country’s main institution to a practical standstill. It has polarised the political scene significantly.
http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/opposition-is-pulling-kosovo-into-the-unknown-11-05-2015
Kosovo’s parliament ratified the Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA) on Monday with 86 of the legislature’s 120 MPs voting in favour.
http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/kosovo-parliament-ratified-saa-11-02-2015
The foreign ministries in Pristina and Belgrade entered their final week of lobbying on Monday ahead of UNESCO’s general conference in Paris, which is expected to take a decision on November 9 about whether to allow Kosovo to join.
A Pristina court rules the prime minister’s office must make travel expense documents public after three-year legal battle for access.
http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/birn-wins-legal-case-against-kosovo-pm-s-office-10-29-2015
Serbia has accused Kosovo of violating the Brussels agreement by obstructing the formation of the Association of Serbian Municipalities in Kosovo.
http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/serbia-slams-kosovo-over-obstructing-brussels-agreement-10-29-2015
Two Serbs were given suspended sentences for attacking EU rule-of-law mission police and property and endangering UN staff during unrest that flared after Kosovo police were deployed near Serbia’s border.
http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/two-sentenced-five-acquitted-on-eulex-attack-case-10-26-2015
Kosovo and Montenegro’s government commissions on missing persons signed an agreement to exchange information to help find the remaining people who disappeared in the 1990s wars.
http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/kosovo-montenegro-reach-agreement-on-missing-person-s-10-22-2015
Ahead of a UNESCO meeting on Wednesday which will discuss Kosovo’s membership bid, a heated debate between Albanians and Serbs has continued online.
http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/kosovo-s-unesco-bid-battle-continues-on-twitter-10-20-2015