When legal gaps guide constitutional decisions

 Agron Demi

The three logical fallacies in the Constitutional Court’s decision on the constitutionality of PM Haradinaj’s decision to raise his own salary.

Enver Robelli

The state as a business model

If you could give a name to this time period, the most suitable would be: the ugliness of the failure of a free people unprepared to take its fate in its own hands.

Perparim Isufi

An end without glory

As the European Union rule of law mission in Kosovo ends on its 10th year, EULEX’s failures to fight corruption, organized crime and prosecute war crimes linger.

Plator Gashi

The fault in our textbooks

Gender-based violence and inequality are no news in Kosovo, but perhaps we need to look back to our children’s school books to find the culprit.
Donika Emini

One down, but many other Balkan disputes left to go

The agreement on the Macedonia name dispute shows that political will can produce breakthroughs even in the Balkans, but will the same happen with the Kosovo-Serbia conflict?
Mikra Krasniqi

A letter from Argentina

Our columnist sends us a letter from a far off corner of Argentina, a country of natural wonders, excellent wine, tumultuous history, and a destination for retired war criminals from World War II to Yugoslavia’s breakup in the 1990s.

Agron Demi

The kleptomania of institutional leaders

Every Kosovo government since the Bechtel & Enka contract was signed is responsible for the 53 million euro penalty and they should all be investigated by the State Prosecutor.

Visar Prebreza

Who’s to blame for the 53 million euro extra cost on the highway?

A penalty of 53 million euros needs to be paid to Bechtel-Enka for the Prishtina-Skopje road, a result of bad decisionmaking by the last two governments.

Nevena Radosavljevic

‘Like all Serbian citizens’

Djuric’s flippant statement about how he, like all Serbs, can travel freely to Schengen states, rubs salt in the wounds of Kosovo Serbs who clearly are not ‘like all Serbs.’

Florian Bieber

Veering off track, the Kosovo-Serbia dialogue is only a distraction

The EU lacks the proper tools to push the talks between Kosovo and Serbia to the next level, and this might play well for Vucic as he drags on the bargaining.

Lura Elezi

Can you love the artist when you hate the fascist?

Notis Sfakianakis’ concert in Tirana raises questions whether the Albanian capital should welcome the artist despite his far-right and anti-Albanian political views.

Shqipe Gjocaj

To our statesmen, stop the drama

From brawls to petty squabbles, Kosovo politicians have polluted the public discourse with aggression, exaggeration and over-reaction. They should learn to be more ‘feminine’ instead.

Jeton Neziraj

Ʒi ko dikhipe, Kujtim Paçaku

The playwright Jeton Neziraj remembers Kujtim Pacaku, a Roma artist, intellectual, poet and politician who passed away on May 17.

Bodo Weber

No room for maneuver

After a year of strategic limbo, the EU, Serbia and Kosovo should all get their act together - the negotiations for a comprehensive agreement have only two potential outcomes, and neither is the status quo.

Agron Demi

Happy isolation day!

Kosovo’s official calendar includes one of the most absurd holidays celebrated around the world - Europe Day.

Donika Emini

The early stages of stagnation

The new EC report’s assessments are hidden behind a convoluted veil of words - but when it comes to Kosovo, the truth remains: there’s no will to roll up sleeves and do the necessary work.

Mikra Krasniqi

How literature makes us better people

Literature has the power to erase artificial boundaries and create deeper cultural connections between people, something that is imperative in the fragmented social landscape of the Balkans.

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