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Business Insider
March 24, 2018
PRISTINA (Reuters) - Kosovo's state telecom company said on Saturday it has stopped using Serbia's country code for landline phone calls, and instead will use its own new code. The move comes two years after Serbia, which does not recognise the independence of its former province, agreed to allowÃâà...
B92
March 24, 2018
Of course he has. That was 10 years ago, many things have changed since. His predictions about chaos and destabilization in the Balcans following Kosovo's independence were proven wrong, so he has rationally changed his mind. Kosovo is a closed deal for the US administration; don't expect anybodyÃâà...
Balkan Insight
March 23, 2018
Countering widespread criticism of the court in Kosovo itself, he added that the work of the Specialist Prosecutor and Specialist Chambers was not an attack on a “historical narrative such as the Kosovo independence narrative or the Kosovo Liberation Army veterans' narrative". The aim was not “to changeÃâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
March 23, 2018
Aleksandar Vucic and Hashim Thaci will seek ways to end the bitterness between their countries, something the European Union insists upon before Serbia and Kosovo can join the bloc. The talks will be hosted by EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini. Kosovo declared independence from Serbia inÃâà...
Independent.ie
March 21, 2018
Kosovo's opposition has used tear gas to disrupt a parliament vote on a border demarcation deal with Montenegro. https://www.independent.ie/world-news/kosovo-parliament-vote-on-border-deal-halted-by-tear-gas-36728890.html.
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
March 15, 2018
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on March 14 that his country is ready for a compromise over its dispute with Kosovo, which is key to Serbia's bid to join ... Many countries, including the United States, have recognized Kosovo's independence, although other states, including its ally Russia, have not.
WTRF
March 8, 2018
Vucic thanked Iohannis, who offered to help on the Kosovo issue. Romania traditionally has good relations with Serbia and supports its bid to join the European Union. "If the solution is not fair.... and is not supported, it won't be a solution," Iohannis cautioned. Kosovo unilaterally declared independenceÃâà...
Newsweek
March 8, 2018
Electricity and other utilities have been a point of contention between Serbia and Kosovo ever since the former province broke away from Belgrade in a bloody conflict in the late 1990s. Kosovo unilaterally declared independence in 2008. Many countries, including the United States and 23 of the EuropeanÃâà...
Center for Research on Globalization
March 8, 2018
Featured image: The ruins of a Serbian Orthodox cathedral in Djakovica (Kosovo), blown up in July 1999. A ten-years “independence” anniversary of the Republic of Kosovo that was celebrated by Kosovo's Albanians on February 17th, 2018 again opened a question of the NATO's military interventionÃâà...
Modern Diplomacy
February 28, 2018
This year marks a decade since Kosovo proclaimed its independence, and that independence has by now become a hard fact. The country has been recognized by 106 UN members (according to Serbian data, or by 114 countries according to Kosovo itself), including 23 EU members (with the exception ofÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
February 26, 2018
Pristina, Kosovo - As the Pristina-born British singer and actress Rita Ora entertained thousands of Kosovars as part of independence day celebrations, a poster on a fence surrounding Kosovo's main government building pictured hundreds of young men unseen in nearly 20 years, believed to have beenÃâà...
Borgen Project
February 21, 2018
SEATTLE — February 17, 2018, marks the tenth anniversary of the independence of Kosovo from Serbia. In 2008, Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence was backed by most Western democracies that deemed it to be a necessary step toward reconciliation and the peacebuilding processÃâà...
The Guardian
February 19, 2018
... mayor Shpend Ahmeti assumed power vowing to take on powerful interests, there were some 40,000 illegally built constructions. But, illegally or not, the city has grown rapidly since the 1998-1999 war, and its new confidence was underlined in 2008 when Kosovo declared independence from Serbia.
Prishtina Insight
February 18, 2018
On February 14, the then-Prime Minister—current President—Hashim Thaci had quizzically declared “people are celebrating, the people know the date.” But nobody knew for certain when Kosovo would declare independence until February 16, and some could not believe it until the next day, when peopleÃâà...
Sputnik International
February 18, 2018
The Serbian breakaway of Kosovo is in the midst of two days of celebrations to mark the tenth anniversary of its declaration of independence. Speaking to Radio Sputnik, Marko Gasic, a London-based international affairs commentator and Balkans expert, explained why he felt there was really very little toÃâà...
FRANCE 24
February 17, 2018
Kosovo on Saturday celebrates 10 years since it declared independence, a moment of pride for its ethnic Albanian majority, although sovereignty remains fiercely contested by Serbia. The capital Pristina is covered in the blue-and-yellow Kosovan flag for a weekend of festivities, with Kosovo-born BritishÃâà...
TIME
February 16, 2018
kosovo-america-obessesion A women's clothing store on Bill Clinton Boulevard in July 2016. Kosovo's obsession with America flows from its role in its creation. The U.S. led the 1999 NATO bombing campaign that paved the way to Kosovo's independence. At the time, the Kosovo Liberation Army, a haphazard bunch ofÃâà...
New York Times
February 15, 2018
17, the mountainous, landlocked region of less than two million people declared independence from Serbia. Yet far from ending Kosovo's troubles, independence seems to have brought a new set of problems. I have visited Kosovo frequently since arriving for the first time in late 1998 for a two-week trip.
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
February 13, 2018
On February 17, 2008, Kosovo unilaterally declared independence from Serbia. Since then, the new country has struggled to build strong institutions, while a weak economy has driven tens of thousands to look for work abroad. But ahead of the 10th anniversary celebrations, many Kosovars are focusing onÃâà...
Gazeta Express
December 31, 1999
Prishtina welcomed the readiness of the Romanian state to be involved in finding a solution for Kosovo, but also asked Bucharest to initially recognise Kosovo's independence, because Romania is one of the five EU member countries that have not recognised Kosovo. Gazeta Express has contacted BekimÃâà...
