A victory that goes beyond politics

 Eraldin Fazliu

Sunday’s election results were a political earthquake that will resonate beyond the formation of the next government. The electorate have exhibited a refusal to surrender to the blackmail and nepotism that have been endemic in Kosovar politics for the last 20 years.

Doruntina Baliu

Making higher education work for Kosovo

Negligence and corruption across Kosovo’s private and public higher education institutions is causing social and economic degradation. The new government needs to step up and pave the way for long-term, sustainable development at Kosovo’s universities.
Shkelzen Gashi

Pan-Balkan textbook misrepresents Kosovo’s recent past

The 'Joint History Project' is an attempt to provide educators with a multi-perspective textbook on Balkan history, but its presentation of events in Kosovo omits key incidents, while many that are reported are presented superficially, inaccurately or with a pro-Serbian bias.

Jeta Xharra

Solutions for these elections

While issues related to Kosovo’s neighbors have been the trigger for this and past elections, on the ground the country requires hard work and practical solutions to cure its many domestic ills.

Aidan Hehir

Stopping the rot: Relaunching Kosovo’s foreign policy

Professor Aidan Hehir recommends a more robust approach to dealing with Serbia, a reduced focus on recognition from peripheral states and the pursuit of a genuinely independent foreign policy.

Frank Hantke

Kosovo state must regain the trust of its people

Kosovo’s political elite are squandering the country’s potential for growth. Redistribution and reprioritization of the country’s resources must move away from unsustainable investment and towards the needs of its people.

Shqipe Gjocaj

Kosovo women need answers not an ‘iron lady’

Despite being the only woman running for the position of prime minister in Kosovo’s upcoming elections, Vjosa Osmani is not addressing the needs of the country’s women.

Labinot Leposhtica

Higher salaries will not improve Kosovo’s justice system

Doubling the income of prosecutors and judges will not yield better results in the Kosovo judiciary. Doubling the number of staff, however, will bring Kosovo closer to the desperately needed improvements across the legal system.

Kreshnik Gashi

The myth behind the ‘best police force in the region’

The new government has a tough road ahead of it when it comes to security and law enforcement, and a long list of issues to address in order to make Kosovo a safer place for all its citizens.

Visar Prebreza

Transforming Kosovo’s economy: priorities for the next government

As a new administration is set to take over the Kosovo Government in a matter of weeks, those hopeful that the economic malpractice that has plagued previous administrations will be dismantled offer a few steps to push the new government in the right direction.

Visar Xhambazi

Kosovo is moving back onto the US radar

The last four US administrations have made their mark on Kosovo, and news of a newly-appointed Special Envoy to the Balkans signals that it is the Trump administration’s turn to shoot their shot and finalize deal between Kosovo and Serbia.

Agron Demi

Genetic selection policy

The PAN coalition parties may be about to leave power, but the DNA of their government will remain in key state institutions for years to come due to a legacy of nepotistic appointments.

Aidan Hehir

Elections need to bring change, not stability

Aidan Hehir writes that the upcoming snap elections could break the hold of the old political guard and bring much needed change for Kosovo citizens.

Eraldin Fazliu

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.

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