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France warns of 'endless soap opera' on Balkans EU membership (Aljazeera)

Paris wants the EU to change the way it admits new members.

France stuck to its hard line position against European Union membership talks for North Macedonia and Albania on Tuesday, warning it could not approve negotiations until the bloc reformed the "endless soap opera" of admitting new members.

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Montenegro fires football coach for boycotting Kosovo game (Aljazeera)

Ljubisa Tumbakovic skips match amid Serbian campaign against Serbs playing in games with Kosovo.

Montenegro has fired national coach Ljubisa Tumbakovic after he boycotted the European Championship qualifier against Kosovo.

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Patriotic Highway: A Tale of Justice and Corruption in Kosovo (AlJazeera)

A Swedish judge in Kosovo takes on EULEX's largest corruption case and fights to keep politics out of her courtroom.

"Every case has a unique meaning for the future," says Marie Tuma, a Swedish criminal judge.

She is working with EULEX in Kosovo, an EU-operated mission which aims to get the state's justice system on its feet.

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Women of Krusha (AlJazeera)

The story of how the women of a Kosovan village rebuilt their lives after many of their men were killed in 1999.

In southwest Kosovo, on the banks of the River Drin, lies the village of Little Krusha. In 1999 it was part of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia with a population of around 1,000, both Albanian and Serbian.

According to witnesses like Marte Prekpalaj, what happened in Little Krusha on March 25, 1999, not only decimated the village's male population but was one of the most violent incidents of the 16-month Kosovo War.

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Running battles in the streets of Kosovo (Aljazeera)

Large anti-government protests organised by ethnic Albanian opposition parties erupted in Kosovo’s capital Pristina this week, more than a month after parliamentarians there approved a new coalition government. The protests were the largest since Kosovo unilaterally declared independence from Serbia in 2008.
Many Kosovars are dissatisfied with the new government, which has just ended a six-month political stalemate that followed the parliamentary elections of last June.

Kosovo's ruling party claims election victory (Aljazeera)

Turnout of only 43 percent reflected widespread frustration among Kosovo's 1.8 million people [AFP]

The ruling party of Prime Minister Hashim Thaci has declared victory in Kosovo's parliamentary elections in which the Serbian minority is taking part for the first time since the territory broke away from neighbouring Serbia.

An exit poll conducted by the Gani Bobi social research institute put Thaci's Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) on 33 percent, just ahead of the opposition Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) on 30 percent.

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