Stop using the Balkans as a synonym for chaos

 Aidan Hehir

Events in Washington DC on Wednesday night saw many commentators reaching for cliches about Kosovo and the Balkans, perpetuating stereotypes that are inaccurate, unfair and fundamentally colonial.

Agron Demi

The economic elephants in the room

Kosovo’s state budget has often been wasted on a bloated public sector wage bill and endless infrastructure projects, while social schemes have rarely reached those who need them the most or help alleviate poverty. It’s time for a change.

Hana Marku

How to fight disenfranchisement, Kosovo style

The Central Election Commission’s decision to verify postal voters through a single phone call is a blatant attempt to suppress the diaspora vote, but we don’t have to take it lying down.

Adea Kondirolli

New year, same old sexism

Agim Veliu’s obsession with Vjosa Osmani is just the latest installment in a series of misogynistic episodes featuring Kosovo’s politicians.

Fjolla Hoxha

No season: A chance to promote non-elitism in performance art and decentralize the stage

The pandemic has been financially devastating for artists and performers, both in Kosovo and around the world, but it also creates opportunities to envision new perspectives.

Adea Kondirolli

COVID-19 only exacerbated Kosovo education’s preexisting conditions

2020 was another difficult year in education with more misgovernance, political interference and poor test scores, while attempts to provide schooling during the pandemic often fell short.

Artan Mustafa

2020 showed that Kosovo’s social contract needs rethinking

The economic emergency created by the pandemic revealed the state’s inability to provide support to those who need it most, with measures taken by the Hoti Government only exacerbating inequality.

Aidan Hehir

Kosovo can’t allow the dialogue to continue in this form

Overshadowed and lacking an obvious purpose, the Brussels based dialogue resumed in 2020 in the interest of the EU, Serbia... everyone except Kosovo.

Liridona Sijarina

A year that exposed the entrenched violence against women

2020 saw a steep rise in domestic violence and femicide in Kosovo but temptations to blame the pandemic should be avoided. The answers lie closer to home.
Agron Demi

Is it time to rethink Kosovo’s political system?

For more than a decade, no Kosovo Government has completed its full mandate amid crises that have called into question the functioning of state level politics.

Donika Emini

The Hoti show must not go on

At a time of unprecedented crisis in the country, what’s essential is political legitimacy – which is precisely what Avdullah Hoti’s government does not have.

Agron Demi

Kosovo turns blind eye to officials flouting COVID-19 laws

Kosovo’s constitution may proclaim that everyone is equal before the law – but its selective imposition of punishments for breaking government pandemic measures shows otherwise.

Anna Di Lellio

Kosovo wartime leaders’ indictment is inaccurate and biased

The Hague war crimes prosecutors’ indictment of Hashim Thaci and three other former senior Kosovo Liberation Army officials distorts history and selectively omits facts to set out a biased case.

Drilon S. Gashi

In defence of Joe Biden: A good friend in hard times

A response to Aidan Hehir’s piece on Joe Biden’s upcoming presidency and its impact on Kosovo.

Aidan Hehir

Biden presidency no magic fix for Kosovo

The election of Joe Biden as US President brings the curtain down on an era of insanity, but given his past record and the diminishing power of the West, Kosovo cannot expect its problems on the international stage to be instantly solved.

Adea Kondirolli

COVID-19 restrictions on the elderly are just cruel

Freedom of movement restrictions placed on over 65s by the Kosovo Government in a bid to tackle the coronavirus crisis will not be effective in a country where multiple generations often live together in the same household and can only inflict more stress.

Hana Marku

Albanian Americans and Trump: An empty friendship

To support Trump as an Albanian is to turn your back on our own struggle for equality – a struggle we should remember as a people who have experienced segregated schools and workplaces, discriminatory laws, police crackdowns and ethnic cleansing.

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