Kosovo edges one step closer to Hobbesian anarchy (FT)
No Balkan country is free of political turbulence but the turmoil in Pristina is particularly worrying
Kosovans stage round-the-clock anti-government protests (Financial Times)
In scenes reminiscent of Istanbul in 2013 and Kiev in 2013-14, hundreds of demonstrators have pitched tents on the main square of Pristina, Kosovo’s capital, in round-the-clock protests against a government they revile and want to bring down.
Balkan turmoil raises Europe’s second Eastern Question (Financial Times)
Like the great powers of the 19th and early 20th centuries, the EU faces an Eastern Question. Political and ethnic violence that erupted in Macedonia last weekend is the latest symptom of a deep-seated disorder shaking an area of southeastern Europe that stretches from Greece to Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Wave of Kosovan migration sparks unease in European capitals (Financial Times)
It took seven years after Kosovo declared its independence from Serbia for Besim Aaliti to conclude that Europe’s newest state no longer offered him a future.
So Mr Aaliti, a bricklayer from the Kosovan village of Strubulovo, travelled through Serbia and Hungary to reach Germany, where he applied for asylum earlier this month.