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11/20/2025

Kosovo's president, Vjosa Osmani, set December 28 as the date for an early parliamentary election on Thursday, after the ruling Vetevendosje party of Prime Minister Albin Kurti failed to secure enough votes in parliament...

5/29/2025

Hundreds of business owners blocked roads into Kosovo's capital Pristina on Thursday to protest at a regulatory mandate forcing them to buy power from the open market that they say could triple their electricity bills.

4/11/2025

Croatia, Albania and Kosovo recently formed a new military alliance. Serbia and Hungary responded with their own military ties. Do these new alliances threaten the security situation in the region?

2/11/2025

European Union observers on Tuesday hailed Kosovo’s “peaceful and competitive” parliamentary election but criticized the left-wing government that won the most seats for polarizing the political debate.

2/10/2025

Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti’s leftwing party won most seats in the weekend parliamentary election but was left without a majority in the house, forcing it to look for an ally to form the next government, according...

2/7/2025

With tensions regularly flaring up between the majority Kosovo Albanian population and the ethnic Serb minority, the country's relations with neighboring Serbia are one of the main topics on the political agenda.

1/15/2025

Kosovo’s authorities on Wednesday said they had closed all so-called parallel institutions used by the country’s ethnic Serb minority and financially supported by neighboring Serbia, in a move condemned by the European U...

9/8/2024

Kosovo has closed two of its four border crossings with Serbia following protests on the Serbian side that have blocked cross-border traffic, the interior minister said on Saturday.

5/21/2024

Kosovo police on Monday closed six branches of a Serbia-licensed bank in line with the decision on the ban of the use of the Serbian dinar currency in the country, a move that has raised tension with neighboring Serbia.

2/8/2024

Kosovo's Prime Minister Albin Kurti said on Wednesday that the Serbian dinar was not technically "banned," trying to argue that people could still possess the currency. However, he also said that the euro was now the "on...

11/9/2023

The decision comes days after the European Union’s envoy for the western Balkans paid a surprise visit to Kosovo.

10/31/2023

Political analysts say escalating Serbia-Kosovo tensions represent a "serious security issue" for both the Balkans and European region.

10/27/2023

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Prime Minister Albin Kurti met with the leaders of France, Germany and Italy, plus the two EU officials supervising a stuttering "dialogue" between them.

10/23/2023

Kosovo’s prime minister on Monday claimed that a criminal gang from northern Serbia was behind a September attack in Kosovo that killed a police officer and involved a daylong gunbattle with Kosovo police that left three...

10/2/2023

Serbia has withdrawn some troops stationed near the border with Kosovo, after having increased the numbers deployed there following a gun battle in northern Kosovo in which four people died, army commander General Milan...

9/29/2023

Kosovo's prime minister on Friday welcomed a NATO decision to bolster its troops in the volatile Balkan region, saying last weekend's shootout that left four people dead illustrates Serbia's attempts to destabilize its f...

9/25/2023

Kosovo on Monday was observing a day of mourning for the Kosovar Albanian police officer killed by Serb gunmen who then barricaded themselves in an Orthodox monastery in an attack that left three

7/11/2023

I am in regular contact with President Aleksandar Vucic. I am ready to meet. We are concerned about the increased tensions in Kosovo,' says Jens Stoltenberg - Anadolu Ajansı

6/27/2023

Three police officers returned to Kosovo Monday after a Serbian court ordered their release from detention in a move that could help ease tensions between the neighboring countries. Most Read from Blo

6/26/2023

Located at the foot of the Balkans' Accursed Mountains, the Decani Monastery is seen as a symbol of Serbia's religious heritage in Kosovo -- and a "miracle" of survival through many conflicts.  During the Kosovo war and...

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