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Prishtina Insight
March 31, 2018
Skender Hoti, one of the appointed members, was neither on the initial selection list compiled by the government's commission nor on the list of recommendations by the British embassy in Kosovo. Hoti was not part of the initial list issued by the governmental commission, but after it was 'expanded' to 18Ãâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
March 31, 2018
Kosovar Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj has dismissed the interior minister and the secret-service chief after the arrest and deportation to Turkey of six Turkish ... Later, after a meeting of top government and party officials, the speaker of parliament from the ruling Democratic Party of Kosovo, Kadri Veseli,Ãâà...
Aljazeera.com
March 30, 2018
Tensions between Kosovo and Serbia have heightened in recent days following the arrest and deportation of a senior Serbian official in northern Kosovo. The brief detention on Monday of Marko Djuric, director of the Serbian government's Kosovo office, marked the first such incident in Kosovo since theÃâà...
Gazeta Express
March 30, 2018
The reaction came after trade of accusations on Thursday between Kosovo Deputy Prime Minister Hoxhaj and his Serbian colleague in Kosovo Government, Dalibor Jevtic. Hoxhaj during Government's meeting called on Jevtic to work for the interests of Serbian community in Kosovo and advised him not toÃâà...
Focus News
March 29, 2018
Prishtina. The Government of Kosovo says that Srpska List is making a mistake by giving ultimatums because this is not an option on normalisation of relations, adding that the Assocaition will be formed in a near future, as pledged in Brussels during the EU-facilitated dialogue with Serbia, reported GazetaÃâà...
ABC News
March 24, 2018
... visas in Europe's the Schengen travel zone. The opposition Self-Determination party says Kosovo will lose territory under the 2015 agreement. The previous government and international experts deny that. Montenegro, which had approved the deal, recognizes Kosovo's 2008 independence from Serbia,Ãâà...
Balkan Insight
March 24, 2018
The government called off the match after videos showed Serbian fans heading to Kovilovo, near Belgrade, where the match was supposed to take place, singing nationalist songs. While Serbia's team has ended its journey, Kosovo's team is scheduled to continue with other qualifying matches. “Based onÃâà...
New Jersey Herald
March 23, 2018
PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Two Kosovar lawmakers were injured Wednesday when the opposition used tear gas several times to disrupt a parliamentary vote on a border demarcation deal with Montenegro. Lawmakers had to be evacuated from the Assembly building after the Self-Determination MovementÃâà...
Gazeta Express
March 23, 2018
The Government is convinced that correction of demarcation will happen despite scepticism of opposition party of Vetevendosje, who on Wednesday released teargas in Parliament to prevent ratification of the deal claiming that Kosovo loses over 8000 hectares of land. “The Government of Kosovo isÃâà...
B92
March 23, 2018
Vinci Airports will pay 417 million euro ($513.2 million) to the Serbian government and 84 million euro to the retail shareholders of airport operator Nikola Tesla [BEL:AERO] for the concession plus an annual concession fee of between 4.4 million euro and 15.1 million euro, the government said in aÃâà...
Herald-Whig
March 23, 2018
PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Two Kosovar lawmakers were injured Wednesday when the opposition used tear gas several times to disrupt a parliamentary vote on a border demarcation deal with Montenegro. Lawmakers had to be evacuated from the Assembly building after the Self-Determination MovementÃâà...
Balkan Insight
March 23, 2018
Serbia has cancelled Friday's planned match between the women's junior handball teams from Serbia and Kosovo, amid rising tension and concerns over ... Serbia's government on Friday scrapped a match between the Serbia and Kosovo junior women's handball teams, as a qualifier for the World Cup,Ãâà...
Prishtina Insight
March 23, 2018
For anyone unfamiliar with Kosovo, the scenes broadcast from the Assembly yesterday looked like an unambiguous case of order versus chaos. On the one hand, tear-gas-throwing MPs tried to block the passage of a bill recognizing a border deal with Montenegro. On the other, the government, the EU andÃâà...
B92
March 22, 2018
The head of the Serbian Government Office for Kosovo and Metohija in this way reacted to a statement made earlier in the day by Kosovo Assembly President Kadri Veseli. "Let Kadri Veseli not rejoice because Kosovo and Metohija will never be a state, nor will Presevo, Medvedja, or Nis ever be a part ofÃâà...
Gazeta Express
March 22, 2018
“When it comes to visa liberalisation more needs to be done. But you have taken important steps toward Kosovo's integration into the European Union,” he said. The German Ambassador made the comments during signing of a MoU between Kosovo Credit Guarantee Fund and the Government of GermanyÃâà...
pv magazine International
March 22, 2018
On the other hand, the most recent action taken by the Kosovo government to tackle this issue was the construction of a new coal power plant, the 'Kosova e Re' Power Plant, which was approved by late December. The project consists of an upgrade of the 27-year old lignite-fired Kosovo B Power StationÃâà...
ABC News
March 22, 2018
The previous government and international experts deny that. Opposition leader Albin Kurti complained that most of the party's lawmakers were barred from the vote or taken away by police for questioning after the tear gas was set off in the Kosovo Assembly. "Today, 80 lawmakers joined the treason ofÃâà...
Gazeta Express
March 10, 2018
Gazeta Express got hold of a letter that the British lawyer Sir Geoffrey Nice addressed to the Government of Kosovo, when he reveals a scandalous history involving President Hashim Thaci and his team. The letter shows the President owes almost half a million Euro for his professional engagement with theÃâà...
New York Times
March 9, 2018
The organization that runs the continental grid, the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity, disclosed the problem on Tuesday, saying that it had never seen anything like it before. It announced on Thursday that it had reached an agreement with Serb and Kosovar authorities toÃâà...
Balkan Insight
March 8, 2018
Pristina's Special Prosecution has taken over the investigation into the killing of Kosovo Serb political party leader Oliver Ivanovic from local prosecutors because of the complexity of the case. ... Ivanovic was an opponent of the Belgrade-backed Kosovo Serb party, Srpska Lista, which is now part of the Kosovo government.
IRINnews.org
March 2, 2018
In total, the Kosovo police have registered 133 returnees, including several children. The government has also put in place what it calls a “holistic” programme to prevent radicalisation, in anticipation of a further flow of returnees. It is supporting non-governmental organisations and religious institutions inÃâà...
The Guardian
February 28, 2018
Senior officials in the current Kosovo government are reported to be among the suspects, and in January the ruling party made an abortive attempt to repeal the legislation underpinning the court's existence. The absence of war crimes charges for KLA atrocities is seen as a deep injustice by most Serbs,Ãâà...
Aljazeera.com
February 26, 2018
Pristina, Kosovo - As the Pristina-born British singer and actress Rita Ora entertained thousands of Kosovars as part of independence day celebrations, a poster on a fence surrounding Kosovo's main government building pictured hundreds of young men unseen in nearly 20 years, believed to have beenÃâà...
Gazeta Express
February 19, 2018
Kosovo Government will hold two meetings on Tuesday. In the first meeting set to be held at 10:00 The Government will ask withdrawal of the Draft Law on ratification of the Agreement on border demarcation with Montenegro from the Parliament. Later at 16:00 the cabinet will convene again to proceed theÃâà...
Balkan Insight
December 31, 1999
Nearly 30 years on, many teachers like her struggle to understand why the Kosovo government does not officially acknowledge the role that they played during the country's struggle for existence in the 1990s. In order to keep Albanian-language education alive, many families throughout the country offeredÃâà...
Prishtina Insight
December 31, 1999
Srpska Lista, the representative political group of Kosovo Serbs, decided to withdraw its members from the Kosovo government following the arrest and consequent deportation of Marko Djuric, head of the Serbian government's office for Kosovo. Srpska Lista announced their departure from the governmentÃâà...
Deutsche Welle
December 31, 1999
"The Serb List will withdraw from the government and Kosovar institutions," Rakic told journalists at a press conference. The decision comes a day after heavily armed Kosovar police detained senior Serb politician Marko Djuric in Mitrovica, a volatile, mostly Serb city in northern Kosovo. Djuric, who is alsoÃâà...
