Kosovo

The OSCE Mission in Kosovo has called on Kosovo to engage more in raising awareness among non-majority communities, as the census, which started last week, saw its first problems in the field.

Belgrade-backed party surprisingly announces boycott of April 21 vote to dismiss northern mayors, claiming Prime Minister Kurti has 'done everything for the vote to fail'.

Tensions are rising in Kosovo’s restive Serb-majority north, as Pristina enforces its writ against the backdrop of continuing disputes with Belgrade. The parties and outside supporters should first work on defusing the short-term risk of violence and then look for ways to foster lasting stability.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.