In his outgoing address as Kosovo Specialist Prosecutor, David Schwendiman said that gathering evidence and locating witnesses to indict former members of the Kosovo Liberation Army had been tough.

In his parting speech, the chief prosecutor at the Hague-based Kosovo Specialist Chambers, David Schwendiman, said on Thursday that his office had collected a mass of evidence – but repeated that the court was not set up to "change history" or put one ethnicity on trial.

Antonia Battaglia, researcher and published author, writes in a commentary that the fate of Kosovo Serbs is a test for EU and its efforts to normalise relations between Pristina and Belgrade could fail to bring forward the desired effect, until both EU and local officials take into full account the needs of the Kosovo Serb community as well. She writes that many Kosovo Serbs complain that the EU’s approach does not address their concerns while their rights are at the same time not adequately safeguarded by either Belgrade or Pristina.

Te latest World Happiness Report suggests the people of most Balkan countries have little to smile about.

With the partial exception of Romania, the Balkans is not a very happy part of the planet, according to the latest World Happiness Report 2018, produced by the UN’s sustainable development solutions network, SDSN.

Senior American official's Balkan tour shows that America is committed to preventing disputes between Balkan states from becoming ‘frozen conflicts’, analysts say.

The new US Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, Wess Mitchell, started a tour of Serbia, Kosovo, Macedonia and Greece on Monday, aiming to address various potential frozen conflicts in the Balkans region.

Ethnic Albanian and Serb women managed to find a common language and overturn gender stereotypes when they started their own female-run meat-processing plant in a little town in Kosovo.

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Women's rights organisations from the Balkans are marking International Women’s Day, on March 8, with a series of rallies designed to raise awareness of discrimination, violence and unfair treatment.

Women's rights activists all over the Balkans will be leading other rights organisations and leftist groups at a series of rallies on Thursday, marking International Women’s Day and demanding better rights and more equal treatment.

The European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity, ENTSOE, says the energy dispute between Serbia and Kosovo has affected the continent's digital clocks.

Disputes between Serbia and its former province over energy and a lot of other issues have been accused of damaging many things in the Balkan region.

Now, however, the two neighbours have been accused of disturbing Europe's digital clock system.

The Pristina authorities and international missions failed to jail the perpetrators of a series of political assassinations and gun attacks after the Kosovo war ended - but survivors hope a new Hague-based court can succeed.

See at: http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/kosovo-s-political-murders-unpunished-but-not-forgotten-03-05-2018

BIRN Kosovo's Kallxo website has protested after police expelled its reporter, Taulant Osmani, from the Kosovo parliament while he was following the stalled vote on the demarcation agreement with Montenegro.

Serbian leaders heaped praise on Russia during Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov's visit to Belgrade – while Lavrov in turn said Russia would not relent in its opposition to Kosovo's independence.

Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov on Thursday accused the EU and NATO of creating an “unhealthy situation” in Europe, while his Serbian hosts thanked Russia for its support and repeated that Serbia will not introduce Western-style sanctions.