KTV’s Editor-in-Chief, Adriatik Kelmendi, in an opinion piece today writes that the problem of Kosovo Serbs to a great extent is "a product of Belgrade’s coward leadership." "All governments in Serbia so far have attempted to hide from Kosovo Serbs the fact that Kosovo’s independence is irreversible process," writes Kelmendi. So, according to him, the government in Belgrade, for personal interests and by trying to avoid dealing with the weakness of economic development, creation of new jobs and other issues, continues not to be sincere with Serbs in Kosovo.

Publisher of Koha Ditore, Flaka Surroi, in an opinion on public perceptions of joyful events in Kosovo, argues that despite the UEFA membership and visa liberalization recommendation, Kosovo still faces many challenges. “It will be a big challenge for Kosovo to come out from the isolation shell where we lived for decades. Infrastructure, which was totally neglected for many years, will be a big challenge and, moreover, the biggest challenge will be to overcome the belief that football in Kosovo is be played only in the muddy fields.”

By Bekim Collaku
Kosovo European Integration Minister

Lumir Abdixhiku says that intensity of the good news this week resembled the week of the declaration of the independence of Kosovo which proceeded with numerous recognitions. He considers that Kosovo needed this after almost eight year pause, after the fall of the intensity, failure at UNESCO, economic, social, and political suffocation.

Opinion piece writer for the paper, Halil Matoshi, says that the British legal official of the UEFA, Alasdair Bell, surprised on Tuesday experts of the international right with his brilliant defense of Kosovo’s right to become member of the UEFA which is preceded by FIFA membership. “After the International Court of Justice’s rejection of Serbia’s question on whether the Governing Provisional Institutions of Kosovo had the right to proclaim independence of Kosovo, this was the most brilliant defense of Kosovo in the international arena,” writes Matoshi.

Associations representing families of missing persons, during a round-table organized yesterday to mark the week of the missing in Kosovo, did not exclud the possibility of protests to find out about the fate of the missing.

Brussels-based correspondent Augustin Palokaj writes in an opinion piece that the European Union and Russia have shown exceptional interest in Sunday’s parliamentary elections in Serbia. “Western politicians do not hide their wishes for Aleksandar Vucic, leader of the Serbian Progressive Party, to win the elections”. Palokaj notes that Vucic has maintained brotherly relations with Russia and meanwhile has gotten closer with the European Union and the United States of America.

KTV’s editor-in-chief Adriatik Kelmendi writes that the events of the last months in Kosovo could serve as indispensable lessons of political emancipation and sobriety with the first being that the time when two major political forces had to reach a coalition deal in order to achieve major political objectives is over. This, according to Kelmendi, was evident in the recent events in the Kosovo Assembly where the opposition parties, though small in numbers, chose unconventional means to oppose the majority-ruling coalition and achieved "relative" success.

Daily newspaper Koha Ditore's open letter to Prime Minister Isa Mustafa

"Mr. Prime Minister Mustafa,

When on Tuesday, you along with ministers Rrahmani and  Bajrami visited Kosovo Medicines Agency (KMA), our team, as invited by your office, sent a reporter to follow the event, with the aim of fulfilling our duty to inform the public.

Kosovo Government spokesman, Arban Abrashi, said today that the decision of the Kosovo Medicines Agency to ban Koha Ditore reporter Saranda Ramaj from covering Prime Minister Isa Mustafa’s visit to the agency on Tuesday, was unacceptable. Abrashi said that regardless of the reasons, reporters should not be banned and must be allowed to carry out their duties. He further argued that the government and Prime Minister Mustafa were not aware of the ban until reporters asked about the matter later on.