Politics of Kosovo

As Isa Mustafa, leader of the Democratic League of Kosovo, LDK, previously the strongest opposition party in Kosovo, took the post of a Prime Minister on Tuesday, some expressed concern that the inclusion of the two major parties in government was unhealthy for democracy.

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Turkey has welcomed Kosovo's newly formed government, which came after the country's two largest parties agreed to form a coalition, a statement from Turkey's Foreign Ministry has said.

PRISTINA - Members of the Assembly of Kosovo have elected the new government in Pristina on Tuesday, with Isa Mustafa, leader of the Democratic League of Kosovo (DLK), as prime minister and three seats for members from the Srpska list.

Vulovic, wanted by Kosovo police since last July, appeared before an EU prosecutor on Monday and was put under 30 days house arrest.

Dragana Nikolic-Solomon, from the EU rule-of-law mission, EULEX, told BIRN that Vulovic appeared voluntarily before the public prosecutor in the northern half of the divided town of Mitrovica.

"Nobody's asking Serbia to recognize Kosovo"

BELGRADE -- Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic told reporters in Belgrade on Tuesday that "nobody is asking Serbia to recognize Kosovo."

FM reiterates: No giving up on either EU or Kosovo

BELGRADE -- Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said that Serbia is not giving up either the EU integration or "the starting position" that Kosovo is a part of Serbia....

The Kosovo Assembly is set to approve a new government and confirm former Pristina mayor Isa Mustafa as prime minister, six months after elections were held.

Serbia receives "11 almost impossible conditions"

BELGRADE -- Germany has sent 11 "almost impossible conditions" to Serbia that the country must fulfill in order to open the first chapter in its EU membership negotiations.

PRISTINA - Kadri Veseli, deputy leader of Hasim Taci's Democratic Party of Kosovo (DPK) was elected speaker of the Kosovo parliament on Monday.

The new parliament speaker is the former head of Kosovo secret service, known as Shik, and one of the founders of Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA, a former ethnic Albanian paramilitary formation).

BELGRADE - Djordje Milicevic, deputy head of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) group in the Serbian parliament, said Monday that Belgrade expected its dialogue with Pristina to be resumed as soon as the political situation in Kosovo allowed and a community of Serb municipalities was set up.