Prishtina

Shops, bakeries, gas stations, hairdressers, pharmacies, fast food shops and all other local businesses closed on Monday in the northern Serb-led municipalities of Kosovo, protesting against the 100-per-cent tariff that the government has imposed on imports from Serbia.

Major successes in only a few years

Kosovo football fans celebrate the win against Bulgaria ibn Prishtina bars, on 10 June 2019. Photo: Atdhe Mulla

Along with tiny Gibraltar, the Kosovo team is the youngest in Europe, having been admitted to the world football federation, FIFA, and to Europe's UEFA, only three years ago.

On Monday, commemorating a battle between Serbian forces and the Kosovo Liberation Army, KLA, in Pashtrik, Thaci went further by asking the Kosovo and Albania parliaments to take action.

"New circumstances are being created, and the best solution would be that two parliaments, of Kosovo and Albania, approve the statements of people's wish to live in a single state," he said.

The interlocutors are difficult, the topics even more so, and Berlin is powerful.

Students, fellow teachers and family members of Turkish nationals who were arrested in March, protesting in Prishtina, calling for their release. Photo: BIRN/ Atdhe Mulla

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Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic told the Prva TV on Friday Serbia has been "driven into a corner, and is in a difficult position."
He commented on the moves from Prishtina, and he spoke talked about a meeting with the US State Department official David Hale.

Students, fellow teachers and family members of Turkish nationals who were arrested in March, protested in downtown Prishtina, calling for their release. Photo: BIRN/ Atdhe Mulla

This has been announced by the state secretary in the Ministry of Economy, Branimir Stojanovic, who spoke for RTS on the occasion of the recent, for the first time organized placement of products from Kosovo and Metohija in central Serbia.

Interview with Dimitar Bechev originally seen on European Western Balkans.

, research fellow at the Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council. Bechev is also a member of the Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group (BiEPAG).

As the general assembly of the international criminal police organization, Interpol, prepares to vote on Kosovo's membership in Dubai, politicians from both Kosovo and Serbia are hoping their conflicting plans will be confirmed.

Kosovo Foreign Minister Behgjet Pacolli jetted on Sunday to Dubai in a final push to convince member states to support Kosovo's bid.