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Kosovo Force 2022: Stabilität sichern, Eskalationen abschrecken 06/2022

Kosovo Force (KFOR) 2021: Stabilitätsgarant im dynamischen Umfeld 05/2021

Kosovo Force (KFOR): Weithin erfolgreich, weiterhin nötig 05/2018

Prüfung der EU-Rechtsstaatsförderung im Kosovo 11/2012

 

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EULEX Kosovo
EU Rule of Law Mission Kosovo (EU)
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OSCE Mission in Kosovo
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Mandatiert seit: 07/99
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UNMIK
UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UN-Geführt)
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KFOR
Kosovo Force (UN-Mandatiert)
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News

25.03.2024
Council of Europe rapporteur backs Kosovo’s membership bid

Report by rapporteur Dora Bakoyannis advises positive response to Kosovo's Council of Europe membership bid, after it met key criterion when it granted disputed land to a Serb Orthodox monastery last week.

Source: Balkan Insight
22.03.2024
Kosovo opposition parties Accept Kurti’s ‘offer’ of elections

Kosovo opposition parties have verbally accepted an offer from PM Albin Kurti to ‘join’ in preparing for new parliamentary elections – reminding him that the opposition has been seeking new elections for some time. 

Source: Balkan Insight
12.03.2024
Senior US official travels to Kosovo to revive Kosovo-Serbia talks

A senior U.S. official on Tuesday said he would be visiting Kosovo in the next days to put "back on track" talks on normalizing ties between Kosovo and Serbia, after tensions escalated over Kosovo's decision to ban the use of the Serbian dinar.

Source: VOA News
08.03.2024
Kosovo Election Commission sets date for vote to dismiss contested north mayors

After Kosovo's Central Electoral Commission set April 21 as the date for a vote on the removal of four mayors of municipalities in the north, the EU welcomed the decision and said it would assist the process.

Source: Balkan Insight
08.02.2024
Security Council debates Kosovo’s new rules on Serbian currency

Trust building, not unilateral actions, are the linchpin in forging a peaceful path forward for Belgrade and Pristina, the UN’s top official in Kosovo told the Security Council on Thursday, as the body called an urgent meeting at Serbia’s request to debate new banking regulations that have triggered fresh tensions.

Source: UN News
05.02.2024
Kosovo euro rule, closure of Belgrade-run offices, draw international criticism

The EU and US have called on Kosovo to halt ‘unilateral’ actions, urging that issues such as euro becoming the sole official currency and the closure of Serbia-run 'parallel' structures to be resolved within the EU-mediated dialogue.

Source: Balkan Insight
01.02.2024
Closed hearings at Hague War Crimes Court ‘heighten mistrust’ in Kosovo

After a month of hearings at the trial of Kosovo’s ex-President Hashim Thaci in The Hague that have mainly been closed to the public, experts warned that this will boost suspicions about the war crimes court back in Kosovo.

Source: Balkan Insight
01.02.2024
Kosovo urged to drop legal push to ‘control online media’

Local and international media organisations called on Kosovo’s government on Thursday to withdraw the draft law on the Independent Media Commission, IMC, and stop attempting to put online media “under control”.

Source: Balkan Insight
17.01.2024
Kosovar Serbs launch petition to dismiss local ethnic Albanian mayors

Ethnic Serbs in northern Kosovo have begun signing a petition to dismiss Albanian mayors in two of the four Serb-majority cities who were elected in snap polls last year amid a boycott of the vote by local Serbs.

Source: RFE/RL
03.01.2024
Kosovo in 2024: Kurti in race against time to deliver on real problems

As Albin Kurti’s mandate as Prime Minister enters its final year, his cabinet is under pressure to start delivering on concrete problems, as dissatisfaction from several quarters mounts.

Source: Balkan Insight (Paywall)