The OSCE Mission in Kosovo and the German Embassy begun today a project to support the Kosovo Police in combating high-level corruption. The project, financed by the Government of Germany, will be implemented by OSCE mission and foresees the establishment of a key group of criminal investigators and prosecutors from the Kosovo Police and the Special Prosecution, as well as strengthening their capacity to investigate cases of high-level corruption effectively.

The Italian Ambassador to Kosovo, Andreas Ferrarese, said on Wednesday that it is not Europe who is being damaged by the migrants from Kosovo, but Kosovo itself, because it is losing its youths and talents. He also said that Italy would benefit from Kosovo migrants because, according to him, they are young, hard-workers, skillful, and most important, there “are no differences in mentality between Kosovo and Italian people.”

The paper’s deputy editor-in-chief Lavdim Hamidi writes that on the first 100 days of the Kosovo government, Prime Minister Isa Mustafa will probably not prefer to present his cabinet’s work using figures as these are not something to be proud of for someone who has a PhD in economics, like Mustafa. However, Mustafa has to mention the fact that during his term in office, 100,000 people migrated from Kosovo.

First Assembly of the European Investors Council (EIC) was held on Thursday in Pristina, attended by ambassadors of European Union member states, representatives of key local and international organizations and diplomatic guests.

Kosovo has been accepted as the 215th member federation of the International Basketball Federation (FIBA). 
The decision, taken during the FIBA's Executive Committee meeting in Geneva, sees the governing body become the latest to formally approve Kosovo's membership after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) granted full recognition to the Kosovo Olympic Committee at its Session in Monte Carlo in December.

Erhard Busek, the former head of the Stability Pact, told Klan Kosova on Thursday that Serbia should recognize the independence of Kosovo as soon as possible. Busek said the only way toward the European Union is to acknowledge the new reality in the Balkans and added that full reconciliation between Kosovo and Serbia will take time. Commenting on the issue of visa liberalization for Kosovo, Busek said the isolation of Kosovars is not right.

Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Rural Development, Memli Krasniqi, met on Monday with representatives of "Women of Krusha" association, with whom he discussed the development projects of the Programme for Agriculture and Rural Development for 2015. Krasniqi informed them for the criteria foreseen in the call for applications for investment grants for all women farmers.

The United States Embassy in Pristina announced Arbana Xharra, Editor-in-Chief of Zeri, as the winner of the Secretary of State’s prestigious International Women of Courage Award (IWOC) for the European Bureau. The Secretary of State's annual IWOC Award honors women around the globe who have exemplified exceptional courage and leadership in advocating for human rights, women’s equality, and social progress, often at great personal risk.

USAID in collaboration with the Ministry of Justice, on Monday presented the program for equal property rights. This program aims at strengthening and improving judicial processes concerning the subjects of property rights, and also aims to ensure that women have the capacity to exercise their property rights. USAID mission director in Kosovo, James Hope, said that the right to have ownership and inheritance is a basic human right. "Property rights have a direct impact on the quality of life for citizens of a country. It gives a sense of economic security.

Columnist Ballsor Hoxha writes that everything in today’s world has a price tag and this implies that whoever has money, can buy its own truth. In Kosovo, this “system of values” is producing increase of power on the part of political parties and this is done for a sole purpose: to produce leaders.  The leading power in Kosovo is divided into three possibilities: material power, leading power, and historic power, writes Hoxha. The leaders today are very much focused in buying a piece of history by capturing and appropriating it.