Vetevendosje party

In an open letter published on Monday, the speaker of the Assembly of Kosovo, Kadri Veseli, has presented his own "consensual platform" for the EU-led talks with Serbia in Brussels, following the proposal of the government for a "state platform" on the talks.

A Kosovo parliamentary debate on the death of Astrit Dehari, an activist from the Vetevendosje party, was interrupted when a minister from the ruling party said the issue was being "instrumentalised" in the interest of "pro-Russian circles".

The Appeals Court in Pristina on Monday ordered the release of three opposition Vetevendosje party activists, including an MP, who were convicted of throwing a grenade at the parliament building in 2016 and given substantial jail terms.

The court overturned the original verdicts and returned the case to the Basic Court of Pristina for retrial.

Kosovo MPs have again postoned a decision on whether or not to ratify a vexed border demarcation agreement with Montenegro, set for Thursday.

The vote failed as a result of the decision of the government to turn the vote into a package, by including two additional documents.

A decision to change the flag waving from a tall pole at  at the entrance to Pristina, at the place known as "the roundabout", has divided the public in Kosovo.

Up until Tuesday, the red and black Albanian national flag waved from the pole - but Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj then gave an order to replace it with Kosovo's own flag.

Women members of Kosovo's main opposition Vetevendosje party have highlighted sexual harassment cases in their own working environment, in a bid to raise awareness of the wider phenomenon in the country.

Days ahead the visit of the Montenegrin Prime Minister Dusko Markovic to Kosovo, it remains unclear if and when Kosovo's parliament will vote to ratify the agreement on border demarcation between the two countries.

Pristina Basic Court on Wednesday found four MPs from Kosovo's main opposition Vetevendosje party - Albin Kurti, Donika Kadaj-Bujupi, Albulena Haxhiu and Faton Topalli - guilty of letting off tear gas in parliament on 2015.

None will go to jail as all of them received conditional sentences.

The former leader of Kosovo's main opposition party, MP Albin Kurti and another Vetevendosje MP, Donika Kadaj-Bujupi, were released from detention on Friday after their arrest on November 24 on charges of letting off tear gas in parliament on 2015.

The newly elected deputy mayor of Pristina, Selim Pacolli, from the Alliance New Kosovo party, has sparked a row after telling a TV station on Wednesday that he supported building a mosque on the campus of Pristina University, if the university was relocated.