After MP Daut Haradinaj threatened war and said Serbs could be removed from Kosovo if his ex-PM brother is extradited to Belgrade, the UN’s Kosovo mission urged the authorities to launch an investigation. “This weekend’s statement by a senior Kosovo parliamentarian, using hate speech to threaten ethnic cleansing, is unacceptable, and a cause for serious concern,” Zahir Tanin, the special representative of the UN secretary-general and the head of the UN’s Kosovo mission UNMIK, said in a statement on Monday. http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/un-calls-kosovo-to-investigate-haradinaj-ethni

A French court postponed for the third time its decision on whether to extradite former Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj to Serbia, where he is wanted on war crimes charges.

http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/france-postpones-again-the-decision-on-kosovo-former-pm-extradition-04-06-2017

A prison detainee has been found dead in Kosovo, raising concerns that it was linked to his status as a key witness in a different death.

http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/death-of-key-witness-in-kosovo-sparks-concerns-04-04-2017

Kosovo President Hashim Thaci abandoned unilateral attempts to push through changes to transform the Kosovo Security Force into a regular army and said he would seek wider support for the plan.

http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/thaci-backtracks-on-establishing-kosovo-army-04-04-2017

Aleksandar Vucic has emerged the victor in Serbia's presidential elections, scooping about 54.9 per cent of the vote, according to a preliminary estimate from monitoring NGOs.

http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/vucic-wins-serbian-presidential-elections-04-02-2017-1

Four suspected jihadists from Kosovo – one of whom is a minor - were arrested by Italian police in Venice while reportedly planning an attack on the famous Rialto Bridge.

http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/kosovo-suspected-jihadist-arrested-in-italy-03-30-2017

 

Kosovo in 2016 held the fewest war crime trials since 2000, meaning that criminals are evading prosecution and the chance of justice for victims is fading, warned the Humanitarian Law Centre Kosovo.

http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/kosovo-scores-decrease-in-the-number-of-war-crimes-trials-03-30-2017

Serbia’s Prime Minister and presidential candidate Aleksandar Vucic is set to visit northern Kosovo, where locals hope for a chance to vote fairly.

http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/serbian-pm-visits-kosovo-amid-election-uncertainty-03-28-2017

An amendment by a ruling party MP cut prison terms by a third has drawn a good deal of adverse comment from politicians, experts and international representatives in Pristina.

An MP from the ruling Democratic Party of Kosovo, PDK, Nait Hasani, has been criticized for proposing an amendment that would cut prison sentences by a third, by counting 24 hours spent in prison as 36 hours of sentence.