Kosovo

Kosovo: IMF funds spent on pensions for veterans now fighting for ISIS?

Illustration - Photo from: Al-Alam

BELGRADE - Over the past two decades, the Kosovar government has spent over $2 billion on payment to former members of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) paramilitary organization. Kosovo received the money from the United States and the European Union and since 2009 mostly from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Three Serbians to remain free pending finality of Brussels murder verdict

BELGRADE - Andrija Draskovic, Veselin Vukotic and Bozidar Spasic, three Serbian nationals sentenced in absentia by a Brussels court to life imprisonment for the murder of Kosovo human rights activist Enver Hadri in 1990, are free citizens in Serbia, at least until the verdict becomes final.

Svilanovic: Region's EU accession process has changed

BELGRADE - Croatia's EU accession marked the end of one accession model, and the process is now completely different for Western Balkan states due to the circumstances in the region and the EU itself, such as the economic crisis, migration and Brexit, Regional Cooperation Council Secretary-General Goran Svilanovic said Thursday.

Brussels court sentences Serbian nationals to life imprisonment

BRUSSELS - A Brussels court has sentenced Serbian nationals Veselin Vukotic, Andrija Draskovic and Bozidar Spasic to life imprisonment for the murder of Kosovo human rights activist Enver Hadri in Brussels 26 years ago.

The jury handed maximum jail terms to the three men, sentencing Vukotic and Draskovic as the perpetrators and Spasic as the mastermind of the killing.

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