11 March 2016 – Today took place the first roundtable of dialogue with senior representatives of the largest political parties. After months of preparations, representatives of LDK, PDK, AAK and NISMA agreed to sit together and launch a political dialogue between the government and the opposition. Vetëvendosje did not participate. The preparation and the roundtable […]
The project aims at contributing to the normalisation of relations between Kosovo and Serbia, through integration of respective minorities/communities and addressing their interests and needs for better services and jobs. The first component, to be implemented in North Kosovo, is focused on identifying mechanisms and actors that would prompt integration of local public companies vital to the life of the […]
19 March 2015 – Balkans Group launched the policy report “Serb Integration in Kosovo after the Brussels Agreement”. The launch of the report was preceded by a roundtable discussion in the presence of the key political and internationals actors, policy makers, and journalists in Prishtina. The report examines the current state of the implementation of […]
19 March 2015 – Kosovo and Serbia have started an immense task, the integration of the Kosovo Serbs and Belgrade’s administrative and financial infrastructure on Kosovo’s territory into the latter’s system – in short, “Serb integration”. This builds on a hard-won agreement mediated by the EU and hailed as among Brussels’s best achievements. Yet its […]
19 March 2015 – Kosovo and Serbia have started an immense task, the integration of the Kosovo Serbs and Belgrade’s administrative and financial infrastructure on Kosovo’s territory into the latter’s system – in short, “Serb integration”. With the support of international partners, Kosovo and Serbia should set a goal of full integration of Serb institutions […]
On 3 November Kosovo will hold local elections.1 For the Serb-held northern municipalities, the elections mark the end of Serbian and the beginning of Kosovo administration, the transition from one country to another.2 Pristina believes November will cement its sovereignty and territorial integrity. Belgrade hopes the European Union will reward its cooperation with membership talks […]
Advocates of new elections base their argument on two points, one political and one constitutional. Legally, some say, the President’s responsibility to “guarantee the constitutional functioning of the institutions” should be read as an umbrella power that includes calling extraordinary elections. Politically, new elections offer a chance of escaping from a government crisis that is […]
The LSE’s South East Europe programme blog hosts a debate on the legality of the international judges on the Republic of Kosovo’s Constitutional Court (final post here). The issue is supremely important and timely, given the Court’s interventions into Kosovo’s ongoing government crisis and its broad powers. It deserves attention from anyone interested in the […]
The crisis will pass; sooner or later there will be a new government. Even if the worst happens and the government is formed in a really dirty way, with vote buying, it only means a few more years of bad government. Kosovo can survive that as it has survived worse. And this isn’t going to […]
Kosovo’s voters cast their ballots on Sunday 8 June, but still have no idea who won. The Central Election Commission (CEC) has reported near-complete results, giving the parties very similar numbers of seats as in the outgoing Assembly though with a few notable changes. Read the article here
