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Mustafa may not visit the north of Kosovo soon (Danas)

According to unofficial announcements from Brussels, the head of the Kosovo diplomacy, Hashim Thaci should seek Kosovo's entry into the CoE in a meeting with the Secretary of the Council of Europe Thorbjorn Jagland. A membership in the European institution decides Committee of Ministers composed of 47 foreign ministers of member states, on the proposal of the Parliamentary Assembly. According to the Pristina daily Tribuna, BIH on the Adriatic League meeting in Tirana rejected the suggestion that Kosovo becomes the member of the Association of the US and regional countries to promote NATO int

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Kosovo Assembly fails to approve parliamentary committees (Radio Kosova)

The Kosovo Assembly failed to approve 14 parliamentary committees that were proposed last week. The motion received 58 votes in favor and 32 against and it required 61 to pass. MPs from the opposition parties opposed the ways the parliamentary committees were allocated because, according to them, the main committees will be chaired by the coalition parties. Assembly Speaker, Kadri Veseli, postponed this point of the agenda for the next session. Radio Kosova reports that the Government of Kosovo approved the draft law for budget for the year 2015.

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Mustafa to join Thaci in creating myths about European Integration (Koha)

Koha’s Brussels based correspondent, Augustin Palokaj, writes in an opinion piece, that Hashim Thaci, besides being Isa Mustafa’s partner in the power-sharing coalition, seems that he is also his political mentor. Palokaj writes that Thaci should be a phenomenon in Europe, who, gives promises that are not fulfilled and he continues with new promises, while no one asks why. After at least three-four years have passed that Thaci mentioned deadlines for visa liberalization, Mustafa promises that in the first half of next year, Kosovo will travel without visas.

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Kosovo unions warn new leader over promised pay rises (Reuters)

Trade unions in Kosovo threatened on Friday to go out on strike after the impoverished Balkan country's new prime minister vetoed annual 25-percent public sector pay hikes promised by his predecessor. Prime Minister Isa Mustafa told Reuters on Thursday a promise by his predecessor Hashim Thaci to raise wages by 25 percent per year over the next four years would be "impossible" to keep, but that they would rise in line with economic growth. "You have started running the country very badly, Prime Minister Mustafa," the head of Kosovo's union of teachers, Rrahman Jasharaj, wrote in a public lett

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Bajrush Morina, spokesperson for the Kosovo Government? (Gazeta Blic)

Kosovo publicist and director of Botapress newspaper, Bajrush Morina, will most likely be part of the Kosovo Prime Minister's cabinet, Gazeta Blic reports. Citing sources close to Prime Minister Mustafa, the news website reports that  new Prime Minister has decided to immediately appoint the Spokesperson for the Kosovo Government.  The source said that "I do not know if Bajrush Morina knows this, but there is a big chance that he will be offered this post”.

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Composition of Mustafa government is discriminatory (Koha Ditore)

Koha Ditore writes that bigger participation of women is asked for the Kosovo institutions. The gender quota set by law enables Kosovo women to be represented by 30% at the parliament and in municipal assemblies. But on the new Government, led by Isa Mustafa, which counts 21 ministries, only two female ministers have been appointed. This is also a very disappointing fact for the European Parliament rapporteur for Kosovo Ulrike Lunacek, the daily writes.

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Mustafa: Coalition with PDK for the interest of the state (Kosovapress)

Isa Mustafa, the Prime Minister of Kosovo tried through a post on his Facebook profile to clarify to the public opinion and voters of the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK,) the reason for the coalition with the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK.) Mustafa stressed that he was obliged to reach the coalition, being that none of the parties had the majority of votes that would allow them to create the government on their own.

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Parliament Approves New Govt in Kosovo (Associated Press)

Legislators approved a new coalition government in Kosovo on Tuesday, including the first prime minister who was not involved with the insurgents who fought for the territory's independence from Serbia. A general election was held in Kosovo June 8, but bickering among political rivals had prevented the formation of a new government until Tuesday's 65 percent vote of approval. Isa Mustafa, head of the pacifist Democratic League of Kosovo, was named prime minister.

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Thaci to hand over his duties to Mustafa on Friday (indeksonline)

Hashim Thaci, the outgoing Prime Minister of Kosovo, has decided to hand over his duties to the just-elected Prime Minister, Isa Mustafa, on Friday. “We inform all media that Prime Minister Hashim Thaçi shall hand over the office to the newly elected Prime Minister of the Government of the Republic of Kosovo, Isa Mustafa, on 12 December 2014, Friday, at 14:00 hours,” stresses a press release issued by the Office of the Prime Minister.

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