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Politics2d agoKosovo’s PDK Urged to Embrace Change After Ex-Leaders’ Hague ConvictionsWith Hashim Thaci and its other former leaders behind bars in The Hague, analysts say it’s time for the once-powerful Democratic Party of Kosovo to face the future and decide what it stands for.Balkan Insight
PoliticsNov 4Kosovo: Protests and outrage after a woman was killed despite repeatedly seeking assistance from the authoritiesDespite reporting her husband to the police and pleading for protection, Arlinda Zekaj was brutally murdered. Now, thousands in Kosovo are protesting what they say is a dramatic failure of state institutions.DW News [en]
PoliticsNov 3Serbia's new leaders unlikely to recognise Kosovo, Albania's Rama warnsEdi Rama says Serbia’s new government remains “completely closed towards recognising Kosovo” and remains reluctant to impose sanctions on Russia.EuroNews [en]
PoliticsNov 3Waste Crisis Blights Kosovo’s Capital and its Mayor’s Political AmbitionsPristina’s mayor and Kosovo’s government are trading blame for the waste blighting the capital; the crisis threatens to hurt the mayor’s political ambitions.Balkan Insight
PoliticsOct 30Kosovo Protests Grow Over Killing Of Woman Who Pleaded For Police ProtectionProtests are spreading across Kosovo after a woman who repeatedly pleaded for protection was killed, allegedly by her brother-in-law. An official investigation found multiple institutional failures, including a prosecutor's refusal to act on a death threat. Eleven police officers and two prosecutors have been suspended, but as RFE/RL's Doruntina Baliu explains, the justice and interior ministers are refusing to resign despite mounting public pressure.RFE/RL
PoliticsOct 29Prosecutors and Police Officers Suspended in Kosovo After Latest FemicideThe chief prosecutor and deputy chief prosecutor of Peja/Pec, as well as 11 police officers, were suspended on Thursday after a recent femicide case demonstrated institutional failures.Balkan Insight
PoliticsOct 28Kosovo Protesters Demand Ministerial, Judicial Resignations After Latest FemicideAfter the murder of a woman in Kosovo at the weekend, protesters took to the streets of Pristina to demand accountability, high-level resignations and an end to gender-based violence.Balkan Insight
PoliticsOct 23Proposed Law to Curb Powers of Hague-Based Court Returned to Kosovo AssemblyFollowing the war crimes convictions of former KLA leaders in The Hague, Kosovo’s assembly passed a bill attempting to curb the court’s powers. The bill now returns to the assembly for reconsideration.Balkan Insight
PoliticsOct 21Leader of Kosovo Opposition Party PDK Steps DownBedri Hamza, the leader of PDK, Kosovo’s largest opposition party, announced his resignation on Wednesday, opening the way for the party to select a new leader.Balkan Insight
PoliticsOct 20Kosovo Risks Losing More EU Funds After Deadlock Delayed ReformsKosovo is failing to access hundreds of millions in EU funding after two years of political wrangling left Brussels-mandated reforms on hold.Balkan Insight
PoliticsOct 14Kosovo to Boost Support for Ex-KLA Leaders Ahead of War Crimes AppealPrime Minister Albin Kurti announces working group to assist appeals of convicted former Kosovo Liberation Army leaders – while the country's Ombudsperson accuses the Hague court of lacking transparency and accountability.Balkan Insight
PoliticsOct 12Kosovo ‘Clarifies’ Hague War Crimes Court’s Jurisdiction, But to What End?In voting to significantly curtail the powers and jurisdiction of the Kosovo Specialist Chambers, parliament in Pristina has angered the EU and thrown the future of the court into doubt.Balkan Insight
PoliticsOct 9For the Trump Administration, Kosovo is Now Just a Bargaining ChipWashington no longer sees Kosovo as a strategic obligation but as an asset of diminishing value, to be leveraged in the service of US interests.Balkan Insight
PoliticsOct 9Kosovo President’s Election Kindles Hope of Return to StabilityAfter Kosovo’s political leaders put aside party quarrels to choose a new head of state at the last minute, experts predict a possible end to almost two years of non-stop political crisis.Balkan Insight
PoliticsOct 8Justina Shiroka Pula, Another Woman at Kosovo’s HelmA last-minute deal between two biggest Kosovo parties saw Justina Shiroka Pula become Kosovo’s President, averting the spectre of yet another election.Balkan Insight
PoliticsOct 8Kosovo lawmakers elect Justina Pula as the country's new president in late-night vote to avert snap electionThe late night parliamentary session effectively ends a more than 19-month legislative deadlock in the country. Pula’s election to the largely symbolic post of president makes her the third female to hold that office since Kosovo’s post-war independence from Serbia.EuroNews [en]
PoliticsOct 7EU Says Kosovo's Changes To War Crimes Court Law Violate International ObligationsThe European Union has expressed “deep concern” over Kosovo’s adoption of legislation that seeks to narrow the jurisdiction of a Hague-based war crimes court, saying the changes violate the country’s international obligations toward the bloc.RFE/RL
PoliticsOct 7Justina Shiroka Pula: Kosovo’s new president, elected during a crisisAn academic, former minister and a compromise choice, Pula was voted in by parliament amid protests.Al Jazeera [en]
PoliticsOct 7Kosovo Avoids New Deadlock With Last-Minute Presidential ElectionMPs dramatically avoid another snap parliamentary election by adopting changes to law on Kosovo Specialist Chambers and electing new President – minutes before deadline expired.Balkan Insight
PoliticsOct 6Kosovo Elects President After Opposition Agrees To Last-Minute DealParliament elected Justina Shiroka Pula as Kosovo's new president late on October 6 following a last-minute political deal that secured lawmakers' approval of legal changes restricting the powers of a Hague-based war crimes court.RFE/RL
PoliticsOct 6Amid protests, Kosovo’s political deadlock raises prospect of new electionsKosovo faces tensions as protests against former rebel leaders’ convictions coincide with the prospect of new elections.Al Jazeera [en]
PoliticsOct 6Kosovo Political Leaders Trade Blame as Another Election LoomsNew election likely as political parties fail to agree on electing a president and protesters keep up pressure for adoption of law curbing powers of Kosovo Specialist Chambers, following its conviction of wartime guerrilla leaders.Balkan Insight
PoliticsOct 6Kosovo Protesters Against Hague Court Gather Again After ClashesAfter violent clashes on Monday night, protesters started to reassemble in Pristina to demand legal changes to curb the powers of the Kosovo Specialist Chambers war crimes court following convictions of guerrilla leaders.Balkan Insight
PoliticsOct 6Kosovo police use tear gas on protesters demanding curbs on war crimes courtAnger has been building since former president Hashim Thaci, viewed by many as a hero of the independence struggle, was sentenced last month over crimes committed during the 1990s war against Serbia.EuroNews [en]
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