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Give Kosovo’s Public Broadcaster Its Funds, Protesting Workers Demand

RTK staff protest over failure to allocate second half of the public broadcaster's 2025 budget because Kosovo still lacks a functioning parliament – which has left them without salaries for July.

The flag of Kosovo and the USA. Photo: Office of the Prime Minister of Kosovo

Kosovo Lifts Tariffs on U.S. Goods

Kosovo’s caretaker Prime Minister, Albin Kurti, announced on Friday the lifting of the existing 10% customs tariff on goods imported from the United States of America.

Session of the new Kosovo parliament on April 25, 2025. Photo: BIRN

Kosovo PM Seeks Consensus as Court Orders End to Parliament Deadlock

Outgoing Prime Minister Albin Kurti called a meeting of political party leaders after the Constitutional Court ordered MPs to end their long-running deadlock and inaugurate a new parliament within 30 days.

An art installation titled ‘Find Me’, created by Kosovan sculptor Eroll Murati, was displayed in the main square in Prishtina in November 2021. Photo: BIRN

Unburied Pain: Kosovo’s Missing Persons 26 Years Later

Twenty-six years have passed since the end of the Kosovo war, and yet the pain endures for many families—not only because of who they lost, but because they still don’t know where their loved ones are buried.

Photo from the archives: BIRN/ Atdhe Mulla

Hidden Graves: Kosovo’s Race Against Clock to Find Wartime Missing

As Kosovo continues its decades-long search for truth and justice, the Government Commission on Missing Persons stands at the front of one of the country’s most painful and unresolved legacies—locating around 1,600 missing people from the 1998–99 war.