Koha Ditore’s publisher, Falka Surroi, criticizes Kosovo political leaders engaged in the dialogue with Serbia, for lack of transparency on the recently reached agreement on justice. According to her, point 9 of this agreement legalizes Serbia as a decision making party in Kosovo’s justice system. She claims that the agreement discriminates everyone in Kosovo but Serbs.

Blerim Burjani writes that regain of the trust of Kosovo people currently appears to be impossible. However, he writes, if there is a political will of the current governing coalition and support of the opposition to draft a joint agenda for the benefit of Kosovo, a little hope could be returned. Not everything requires budget to reach a new consolidation of Kosovo, trust and institutional sustainability, he writes further.

Representatives of the Serbian List will meet next week with top officials in Belgrade to discuss the situation in Kosovo occurred after the Kosovo government dismissed Minister Aleksandar Jablanovic, BETA learns from a source close to the "Srpska" list.

The Prime Minister of Kosovo, Isa Mustafa, informed today his cabinet on the achievement of the agreement for justice in Brussels. Mustafa said during this meeting that the agreement proves extension of the sovereignty also in this field and that the agreement is an achievement which assures unified system of justice.

The paper claims in its front-page editorial that the proposal of the opposition parties to the government of Kosovo to set up a fund to prevent the influx of people leaving for European countries by using it to create new jobs is an unsustainable idea because unemployment is not something that can be solved by a fund. Such funds would end up being misused by corrupt officials and reach a minimum effect.

Kosovo may write off a range of debts racked up by citizens before 2009, the government said on Thursday in a move to tackle widespread dissatisfaction fueling unrest and a new wave of emigration to western Europe. Just two months in office, the government has been rocked by some of the worst civil unrest since Kosovo declared independence in 2008. It is also grappling with a dramatic surge in the number of Kosovars smuggling themselves illegally into the European Union.

Kosovo government has today decided to set up a commission tasked with reviewing the possibility of forgiving all debts businesses and people of Kosovo have to institutions and public enterprises until 31 December 2008. “2008 is a year of capital changes in Kosovo, it is the year of declaration of independence, the adoption of the Constitution and implementation of Kosovo laws. We therefore consider it necessary to have a fresh beginning, a detachment from the past,” said Finance Minister Avdullah Hoti. He specified that the commission would look into outstanding taxes and utility bills.

Journalist Enver Robelli writes in an opinion piece that the image of Kosovo has been destroyed by the government and not by the majority of citizens. Robelli argues that the “concerned citizens of Kosovo can fix the image of their country through peaceful resistance until they achieve qualitative changes in politics.” Robelli writes: “Stones were thrown in the streets of Pristina last Tuesday, directed especially against the bad governance perennial.

Prime Minister of Kosovo Isa Mustafa has officially appointed Petrit Selimi as Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ramadan Ilazi as Deputy Minister of European Integration and Agim Krasniqi as Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Finance. The first two deputy prime ministers are members of Hashim Thaci’s Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) while the third comes from the Isa Mustafa’s Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK). Other deputy ministers, around fifty of them, are expected to be appointed in the coming days.

Prime Minister of Kosovo Isa Mustafa in a meeting of the government today expressed regret over the people injured in the protest yesterday and the support for the police in guaranteeing a safe and secure environment. He reiterated that the protest was politically motivated. “The main cause of yesterday’s escalation of the protest was the ultimatum for removing the police cordon,” said Mustafa.