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Months before the next parliamentary election, PM Kurti's government has almost doubled the minimum wage to 2 euros an hour, or 350 euros a month for a full-time job.
As part of the tour in three Western Balkans countries, CIA Chief William Burns visited Kosovo to meet President Osmani and Prime Minister Kurti.
Kosovo has received a multi-million grant from the United States. But the U.S. ambassador remarked that relations with Albin Kurti’s government remain “less positive than we had hoped”, following a row over plans to open the controversial Mitrovica bridge.
Amid tensions over the possible reopening of the main bridge in Mitrovica, an EU official told BIRN that the issue will be returned to the dialogue table in Brussels and warned Kosovo not to open the bridge without prior coordination.
Protesters gathered in North Mitrovica to condemn the Kosovo government’s push to fully open the main bridge in the divided town, which has been closed to vehicles since the end of the war in June 1999.
