Without parliament

12May 2025. Vjosa Ćerkini / DW

Kosovo blocked: Democracy is hard for Kurti

Since February 9, when the elections were held, Kosovo's institutions practically do not function. In a country hit by a severe economic crisis and mass emigration, political actors seem powerless – or disinterested – to find a compromise.

Constitutive session of the Assembly of Kosovo

Kosovo

27April 2025. TS

Seventh failure: The Kosovo Assembly is still not constituted

The Kosovo Assembly does not have a president even after the seventh attempt. If all efforts to constitute a parliament fail and a new government is not formed, new elections will be called. Such an outcome is increasingly certain, writes Reuters

Constitutive session of the Assembly of Kosovo

Kosovo

23April 2025. Milica Srejić

Political crisis in Kosovo: Will there be repeated elections?

Five constitutive sessions of the Kosovo Assembly were interrupted, and two and a half months have passed since the elections. What does this mean? What can the political crisis in Kosovo lead to? What is the position of the Serbs in Kosovo? Finally, what does the Kosovo political scene look like

Politics

10February 2025. MS

Elections in Kosovo: Kurti needs a coalition to form a government

Parliamentary elections for the Assembly in Pristina were held in Kosovo and Metohija. According to the preliminary results, no party will be able to form the government independently. "Based on the counted votes in all Serbian communities in Kosovo and Metohija, the Serbian List is the absolute winner of these elections," said the president of that list, Zlatan Elek.

Attack on the Ibar-Lepenac canal

04December 2024 Nemanja Rujevic

Sabotage, then the march to the North

While a new game of blame-shifting continues between Kurti and Vučić, Kosovo Serbs get the upper hand, as usual. The dynamite attack on the neuralgic point of Kosovo's water and electricity supply was so quickly harnessed into political games

KiM

04December 2024 NR

Sabotage and Kurti's hunt for Serbs: This will not stop

Whoever mined the Ibar-Lepenac canal was very successful because the atmosphere in Kosovo is poisoned, Milica Andrić Rakić from the New Social Initiative, a non-governmental organization from North Mitrovica, told "Vreme"

Address by the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić

Addressing the public

01December 2024 TS

Vučić on the situation in Kosovo: "Headless attack on Serbian houses and households"

In addressing the public regarding the explosion in the north of Kosovo, Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić accused the Pristina side of directing the terrorist attack in order to accuse "Serbia and Belgrade", and emphasized that he is not accusing anyone. Then he moved on to increasing pensions, highways and protests over the tragedy in Novi Sad

Prime Minister of Serbia Miloš Vucevic

KiM

17October 2024 BB

Vucevic: Unnecessarily long inspections of goods at the Merdare crossing

Prime Minister Miloš Vučević assessed that the inspections of goods at the Merdare crossing are unnecessarily long and that "administrative complications are created just to make people nervous and to render meaningless everything that was supposedly agreed upon previously."

Kurti: "Provocative movement of the Serbian Army."

Belgrade-Pristina

13October 2024 TS

Army on the administrative line: Provocation or prevention of smuggling

Prime Minister of Kosovo Aljbin Kurti claims that members of the Serbian Armed Forces were seen about 50 meters from the administrative separation line, and that it is a "provocative move by the Armed Forces aimed at raising tensions." The Ministry of Defense announced that it was a continuation of the campaign of disinformation against the Serbian Army and Security Forces, as well as that the security authorities of the administrative line on Saturday cut off the smuggling of illegally cut forest

KiM

09October 2024 BB

Ramuš Haradinaj: Aljbin Kurti was a Serbian spy

The former prime minister of Kosovo, Ramush Haradinaj, accused the current prime minister of Kosovo, Aljbin Kurti, of being a Serbian spy, while he was allegedly in a relationship with the daughter of the former minister of the interior of Serbia, Zoran Sokolović.

The case of Banjska

24September 2024 BB

Not even a year after Banjska, no one responded, and the Serbs were left without everything in Kosovo and Metohija

The Special Prosecutor's Office of Kosovo brought an indictment against 45 people, including Milan Radoičić, due to the incident in Banjska, but the Chief Public Prosecutor of the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade, Nenad Stefanović, points out that the indictment has no significance for Serbia. Interpol issued a warrant for Radoičić, and the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, pointed out that for Serbia, the Banjska case "is by no means terrorism".

Comment

13September 2024 Andrei Ivanji

Vučić's great Kosovo siege

Behind the flurry of words that Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić uttered on Friday night about Kosovo hides impotence and capitulation, so it was appropriate to turn the topic to the waiting lists in hospitals in Serbia without Kosovo, which he, of course, will abolish as a matter of urgency

Kosovo

12September 2024 DW

"Kurti ignores the West and is doing great"

Kosovo Prime Minister Aljbin Kurti is putting everything before the fait accompli with actions in the north, says analyst Marko Prelec. He estimates that Serbian schools and hospitals could be taken over