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KALLXO.com has estimated that Kosovo’s political parties spent almost 5 million euros on electoral campaigns for the February parliamentary elections and the October local elections. Money was mainly spent on advertising, although full transparency remains an issue.
Kosovo’s tradition of interfaith coexistence has increasingly become the target of coordinated disinformation campaigns.
A BIRN report found that the Western Balkans and Turkey have moved closer to EU data protection standards on paper, but rapid digitalisation risks outpacing the ability of states to protect fundamental data protection rights.
A decisive win for the ruling Vetëvendosje party in the December 28 early parliamentary elections raises expectations for rapid government formation, ending months of institutional paralysis and reopening the path toward reforms and ratification of stalled international agreements.
For more than two decades, disinformation in Kosovo has fueled ethnic hatred, legitimised violence, enabled terrorism, and, in some cases, led directly to murder.