For the 10-year anniversary of Kosovo independence, Prishtina Insight met with Shyqri Nimani, the engrosser whose handwriting declared Kosovo as a sovereign state.
Prishtina should pay attention to deputy chancellor Strache’s comments about Kosovo’s statehood, even if Austria’s recognition is an irreversible fact.
Pride in Kosovo’s political independence can live alongside people’s self-identification as Albanians. In the end, it might not matter that much.
The first decade of Kosovo’s independence was filled with moments of the ground shifting beneath our feet - easy to forget in our earthquake-prone country, but they restore our dignity nevertheless.
Ten years later, most Kosovars are not free of all the things—poverty, corruption, isolation, lack of education and health care—that had made life miserable in pre-independence days.
