Why do Kosovo citizens still see Serbia as the country’s biggest threat?

 Mentor Vrajolli

Although a military confrontation seems unlikely, a recent survey in Kosovo showed that most respondents still consider Serbia as the country’s leading danger to national security – and their concerns are far from irrational.

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.

Agron Demi

The unbearable lightness of stealing public money

The theft of two million euros from the Treasury is not an isolated case, but a practice within public institutions that has been established over two decades through impunity and incompetence.

Shpresa Loshaj

The fight for Kosovo’s rivers must go on

The ceasing of operations for the three KelKos hydropower plants is a temporary victory in a longer battle. We must stand together against the degradation of our rivers.

Adea Kondirolli

‘Scientific’ views on sexual harassment in Kosovo (and why it matters)

Given recent history of Kosovo’s higher education system, perhaps it is unsurprising that a paper co-authored by a professor claims that one of the main causes of sexual harassment is women dressing provocatively, but it is still completely unacceptable.

Agnesa Haxhiu

The Kosovo Assembly isn’t working

Political disputes have prevented the Kosovo Assembly from functioning smoothly for years, but its failure to address the economic and public health crises caused by COVID-19 is a new low.

Shkelzen Gashi

How to defend the liberation war?

To protect the truth about its just fight for freedom, Kosovo must be prepared to support convictions for those who misused the war of liberation, even as Serbia fails to convict crimes committed by its own state apparatus.

Eraldin Fazliu

Cowboys that don’t keep their word

Behind all the fanfare and bravado surrounding Richard Grenell’s latest visit to Prishtina and Belgrade lies more meaningless documents with little concrete information or clear benefits for Kosovo.

Fjolla Hoxha

The sludge puddle rainbow

Exploring the relationship between the pandemic, evolution, digital authoritarianism and privilege.

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Prishtina Insight is a digital and print magazine published by BIRN Kosovo, an independent, non-governmental organisation. To find out more about the organization please visit the official website. Copyright © 2016 BIRN Kosovo.

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