Discussion panel at the Albanian Language and Literature seminar held in Prishtina on August 19, 2025. Photo: BIRN

“Difficult, but Unique:” Foreign Scholars Study Albanian in Prishtina

The 43rd International Seminar on Albanian Language, Literature and Culture opened on Aug 18 in Prishtina, bringing together around 150 participants from across the world for two weeks of lectures, language courses, and debates.

Kosovo Emergency Management Agency (EMA) extinguishing wildfires in July 2025. Photo Courtesy of EMA

Kosovo’s Summer Wildfires Expose a Country Unprepared

Wildfires across Kosovo during the summer expose that the country is dangerously unprepared to confront a crisis that is becoming increasingly routine and destructive each year.

Energy Market Reform Leaves Kosovo’s Big Businesses Sweating

The Alliance of Kosovar Businesses warned that current energy market reform is driving both local and foreign investors to lay off employees and consider leaving Kosovo for other countries in the region.

RTK workers’ union protest in front of the government building on August 6, 2025. Photo: BIRN

Give Kosovo’s Public Broadcaster Its Funds, Protesting Workers Demand

RTK staff protest over failure to allocate second half of the public broadcaster's 2025 budget because Kosovo still lacks a functioning parliament – which has left them without salaries for July.

EU Special Envoy Meets Kosovo Leaders, Urges Progress on Ohrid Deal Implementation

The European Union’s Special Envoy for the Kosovo-Serbia Dialogue, Peter Sorensen, held meetings with Kosovo’s acting Prime Minister Albin Kurti and President Vjosa Osmani on the implementation of the Ohrid Agreement and the dialogue with Serbia, which according to Sorensen is ‘alive and kicking.’