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EULEX Kosovo
EU Rule of Law Mission Kosovo (EU) 
Authorization date: 02/18
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OSCE Mission in Kosovo
(OSCE Long-Term Missions)
Authorization date: 07/99
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UNMIK
UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UN-led)
Authorization date: 06/99
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KFOR
Kosovo Force (UN-led)
Authorization date: 06/99
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News

16.09.2025
Why the US suspended a 'Strategic Dialogue' with Kosovo before it even began

A US decision to suspend a "strategic dialogue" with Kosovo has rocked the Balkan country's establishment, singling out Prime Minister Albin Kurti as a source of growing frustration in Washington -- his country's prime political and military guarantor.

Source: RFE/RL
16.09.2025
Kosovo OSCE staffer pleads not guilty to spying for Serbia

Jelena Djukanovic denied charges of using her position in the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe's mission to supply Serbia's intelligence agency, the BIA, with sensitive information. 

Source: Balkan Insight
05.09.2025
Kosovo court imposes new ban on parliament over deputy speaker logjam

The court is now reviewing the legality of the parliament’s August 26 and 28 sessions, which failed to elect a deputy speaker from the ranks of Kosovo’s Serb community, a position guaranteed to them by the constitution. On August 30, Dimal Basha, the newly elected speaker, from the Vetevendosje party, which won the February elections, declared parliament inaugurated.

Source: Balkan Insight
26.08.2025
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Kosovo elects parliament speaker, but deadlock continues

Kosovo MPs voted for Dimal Basha as parliament speaker. But the five-month-long political logjam continues, due to a failure to elect a deputy speaker from the Serb community.

Source: Balkan Insight
26.08.2025
Kosovo opens controversial new bridge in ethnically-divided Mitrovica

Just a few metres from the bridge that divides South and North Mitrovica, across which cars are not allowed to pass, the Kosovo government opened a new bridge on Tuesday, despite objections from local ethnic Serbs and warnings from the international community.

Source: Balkan Insight
20.08.2025
Kosovo MPs fail, yet again, to elect parliament speaker

Despite a Constitutional Court ruling, and after months of deadlock, Kosovo MPs failed to elect a speaker and constitute a new parliament again, as two candidates from the biggest party did not get enough support.

Source: Balkan Insight
08.08.2025
Kosovo court gives MPs 30 more days to inaugurate parliament

Kosovo’s Constitutional Court on Friday gave MPs another 30 days to elect a speaker and constitute a parliament, but changed the terms for candidacies for the speaker’s post after months of political deadlock.

Source: Balkan Insight
04.08.2025
Kosovo Serb jailed over attack on NATO peacekeepers in North

Pristina court sentences Milos Antovic to nearly five years' jail and a 20,000-euro fine for participating in violent clashes in May 2023 that left 93 NATO peacekeeping troops injured.

Source: Balkan Insight
25.07.2025
Kosovo fails again to inaugurate parliament despite looming deadline

Kosovo MPs failed for the 52nd time on Friday to constitute the country’s parliament, with a Constitutional Court deadline to do so expiring on Saturday – and the possibility of new elections looming.

Source: Balkan Insight
22.07.2025
Kosovo president presses court to clarify consequences of parliamentary deadlock

Kosovo President Vjosa Osmani on Tuesday said she had asked the country’s Constitutional Court to review the consequences of MPs’ failure to constitute parliament within a 30-day deadline set by the court.

Source: Balkan Insight