Prishtina Insight

The head of the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) Bedri Hamza, announced on Wednesday he is stepping down from the role he took less than a year ago.

Judicial institutions in Kosovo have taken important steps to strengthen the handling of serious organised crime and corruption cases, but reforms have yet to translate into consistent courtroom practice, an OSCE report published on Wednesday claims.

On Wednesday, the Prishtina Basic Court found Kosovo Serb Milorad Djokovic guilty of war crimes during the war in Kosovo.

This inequality still blights the entire Western Balkans region, but Kosovo is particularly affected.

Prishtina Mayor Përparim Rama has accused Kosovo’s government of putting the country’s hosting of the ‘Prishtina 2030 Mediterranean Games’ at risk, citing outstanding financial obligations, administrative delays, and lack of institutional coordination.

Kosovo’s Prime Minister, Albin Kurti, clashed with opposition MP Eman Rrahmani of the Democratic Party of Kosovo, PDK, in parliament on Thursday over stalled reforms to the Civil Code and proposed laws on medically assisted reproduction, with disagreements

Justina Shiroka Pula begins her presidency at a critical moment for Kosovo.

In a meeting on Monday, Kosovo’s Independent Media Commission, IMC, approved an experimental broadcasting licence for ‘Radio Policia’, following a request from the Kosovo Police, for a radio service focused on traffic updates and public safety.

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In a ceremony outside the Government building, Justina Shiroka-Pula was inaugurated as Kosovo’s president on Wednesday, just hours after parliament elected her in a last-minute vote that averted the possible dissolution of the legislature that would cause…

Justina Shiroka Pula was elected as President of Kosovo in an evening which saw a roller coaster of proposals for the vacant post.

Kosovo politicians traded blame over the country potentially heading towards its fourth parliamentary election in less than two years, as political parties again failed to agree on electing a president.

Kosovo’s acting president, Albulena Haxhiu, has asked the Constitutional Court to clarify who can exercise presidential powers if the parliament fails to elect a president by the end of the day, after her six-month mandate expired on Sunday.

Protesters led by the Kosovo Liberation Army War Veterans’ Organisation started to reassemble outside parliament in Prishtina on Tuesday after violent clashes the previous evening.

Kosovo’s youngsters, many of whom were born at the end of the 1990s, have been at the forefront of daily protests in Prishtina against the September 16 first instance convictions of four former Kosovo Liberation Army, KLA, leaders by the Kosovo Specialist…

Kosovo MPs on Monday voted to amend the law on the Kosovo Specialist Chambers so the Hague-based court, part of Kosovo’s justice system, may not impose a sentence of imprisonment exceeding 15 years.

In Kosovo, the children born at the end of the last century, grew up surrounded by the legacy of the 1998-99 war.

“We’ve been busted!”

Carrying banners reading “Not in My Name” and “Freedom Has a Name,” thousands of citizens filled the capital’s main squares on Thursday, calling for justice and opposing the September 16 verdict by the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague against four…

Hundreds of both legally imported and stolen firearms are vanishing from Kosovo’s gun shops and shooting ranges and crossing the border into Albania, feeding a high-demand black market run by organised crime.

Three Kosovo Serbs, Dusan Maksimovic, Nemanja Jolovic and Srdjan Vucinic, pleaded not guilty at the Prishtina Basic Court on Wednesday to violating the constitutional order by participating in setting up roadblocks in the north of the country in December…

With a court deadline to elect a new President approaching, Prime Minister Albin Kurti on Wednesday called on opposition leaders to take urgent steps to address the issue, which risks triggering another legislative election only five months after the last…

Prishtina Basic Court on Tuesday ordered a 30 day pre-trial detention for nine suspects accused of war crimes against the civilian population in a case linked to the discovery of mass graves in the north of the country in August, 2026.

BIRN’s Anti-Corruption Forum in Prishtina on Monday brought together representatives of justice and law-enforcement institutions, investigative journalists, and civil society organisations to discuss efforts to prevent and expose corruption.