Kosovo protests

Police entered the headquarters of Kosovo's main opposition party on Nov. 28 and arrested dozens of people, including one of its leaders who was wanted for the violent actions he has used to disrupt the country's Parliament.

President Atifete Jahjaga on Thursday condemned the unrest at the previous day's protests, which saw stone-throwing demonstrators clash with riot police and burn cars in the Kosovo capital Pristina.

Opposition lawmakers in Kosovo disrupted a parliament session on Tuesday by using teargas and pepper spray to press their demand that the government renounced a deal regulating relations with Serbia, newswires reported.

Outside of parliament building in Pristina police clashed with protesters who threw rocks, bottles and petrol bombs.  

A session of parliament in Kosovo had to close after opposition MPs hotly opposed to Kosovo's EU-brokered deals with Serbia, threw tear gas canisters in the chamber, causing at least one MP to pass out.

After Germany, Britain has also been criticizing Kosovo politicians, demanding from them progress in the dialogue with Belgrade, according to the daily Blic.

PM Aleksandar Vucic will meet in Brussels on Monday with Kosovo PM Isa Mustafa for a new round of dialogue on normalization of Belgrade-Pristina relations.

Tanjug said on Friday it learned this from a source in Brussels.

Dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina should be resumed on June 23, a Belgrade-based daily writes.

On that day prime ministers of Serbia and Kosovo Aleksandar Vucic and Isa Mustafa should meet in Brussels, according to Danas.

Kosovo's president and prime minister, Atifete Jahjaga and Isa Mustafa, expressed deep concern on Monday about the involvement of Kosovo citizens in gun battles with police in the Macedonian town of Kumanovo at the weekend.

Jahjaga and Mustafa said in a joint statement the violence was intended "to destabilise Kosovo and neighbouring countries by challenging peace and safety".

"How can we celebrate independence when the situation is like this? There is no progress that we can see," Astrit Hajrullahu said.

He and his friend had come out to assist in decorating the Newborn monument, dedicated to Kosovo's independence, which is repainted every year.

The number of Kosovo Albanians trying to illegally enter the European Union is on the rise, with the Hungarian Police reporting that 880 people from Kosovo were arrested on Sunday and a total of around 4,400 in the period from Friday to Sunday.