A one billion dollar highway: faster roads, poorer people

Confirmation that a new motorway will begin construction between Istog and Prizren was announced on Thursday. Kosovo’s primary public investment in the last decade has been in asphalt, but not in the people that use it.

Valmir Ismaili

Veseli: fighting nepotism with nepotism

As news of PDK’s dismissal of party officials holding corruption indictments unfolds, so do fresh appointments of board members with links to PDK to Kosovo’s public enterprises. Valmir Ismaili asks, does this revived push for anti-corruption smell like diversion tactics, or more like early elections?

Bedri Peci

Informal economy: the devil on Kosovo’s shoulder

Kosovo’s informal economy, a cycle of tax evasion by businesses, elusive governmental oversight and exploitation of workers, will continue to run until political will to formalize the system emerges.

Visar Prebreza

Kosova e Re will impoverish Kosovo citizens

Kosovo’s new power plant will cause the average price of electricity to skyrocket, and in the face of both cheaper and safer options, will willfully cost the Kosovo taxpayer billions over the next twenty years.

Nevena Radosavljevic

Elections in Northern Kosovo: A one choice democracy

The lack of Kosovo Serb opposition parties running in Sunday’s mayoral elections in the north of Kosovo is another sign that democracy is ceasing to exist there, with even minimum democratic standards not being fulfilled.

Visar Xhambazi

Kosovo’s political class has delivered a decade of failure

The current political class in Kosovo may give the appearance of stability, but it is incapable of delivering good governance, European integration and most importantly, people’s basic wellbeing.

Donika Emini

What to expect when you are not expecting

The Berlin Summit reflected a major division among the Western partners on the Kosovo Serbia issue, while lack of coordination between Kosovo’s political elite triggered fear as to what awaits us in Paris.

Eraldin Fazliu

Merkel and Macron: the new stars of the dialogue?

The Berlin Summit talks on Monday brought to light rivalries old and new, as President Hashim Thaci and PM Haradinaj clashed over border changes, and the Kosovo-Serbia dialogue sees new EU leaders taking the reins.

Eraldin Fazliu

A vacuum that dissolves matter, space and time

A black hole of a week in Kosovo politics saw the major parties line up to embarrass themselves as migration figures show the depths of a wider crisis.

Jeton Mehmeti

Kosovo might learn from Bangladesh’s controlled nepotism

Bangladesh’s model of quotas – which sets aside 30 per cent of civil service posts to party members – would be better than Kosovo’s system of completely rampant party-based employment.

Shqipe Gjocaj

The minimalism of men’s feminism

Women of the feminist movement are their own biggest critics, and the men who have joined the ranks as protestors and activists need to brace themselves for the same scrutiny.

Raba Gjoshi

Karadzic verdict creates only an illusion of justice

It is almost meaningless to celebrate the victory of ‘justice’ in the Radovan Karadzic appeal verdict while the politics of denying war crimes flourishes all over the Balkans.

Aidan Hehir

Kosovo and western decline: 1999-2019

NATO’s intervention in Kosovo was an act of symbolic importance for the West’s ‘narrative of success.’ 20 years later, Kosovo is still waiting for the transformative power of the West to catch on.

Visar Xhambazi

A tale of two countries: Kosovo and Ukraine

A stark comparison between the social, political and economic development of Ukraine and Kosovo brings to light the EU’s asymmetric policies on visa liberalization.

Lura Limani

Can Kosovo embrace a feminism for the 99 per cent?

The feminist movement in Kosovo has experienced a revival, but it remains to be seen if it is ready to join global efforts to reinvent its politics entirely.

Bedri Peci

Kosovo needs a long-term fiscal policy

Kosovo needs to stop running an ‘ad hoc’ fiscal policy based on customs taxes – and adopt a long-term strategy oriented towards sustainable economic and social goals.

Enver Robelli

Five steps to make the perfect dialogue

Enver Robelli identifies five hoops that the Kosovo government has to jump through before a credible and trustworthy final agreement for the Kosovo people can be reached with Serbia.

Features

A slap in the face of public taste: Rab Rab journal launches its latest issue

Our Man: Richard Holbrooke’s legacy in Kosovo

When the state closes its libraries

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