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Kurti urges equal EU access for Kosovo at Balkans summit
Gazeta Tema
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July 1, 2025
SKOPJE, July 2 – Kosovo’s acting Prime Minister Albin Kurti called for equal access to EU programs under the €6 billion Growth Plan, urging Brussels to match its support with the region’s democratic reforms and European values. Speaking at the...
Kosovo MPs stall again as deadline ticks
Gazeta Tema
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June 27, 2025
Kosovo’s new MPs met for the 38th time since the February 9 election but postponed today’s session until Sunday, days after a court-ordered deadline to form the legislature. Following a Constitutional Court ruling, lawmakers must elect the...
Kosovo PM Seeks Consensus as Court Orders End to Parliament Deadlock
Balkan Insight
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June 27, 2025
The first attempt to inaugurate a new Kosovo parliament, April 15, 2025. Photo: Kosovo Parliament. Kosovo MPs on Friday postponed a parliamentary session that would have been their 38th attempt to inaugurate a new legislature – after outgoing...
Kosovo’s Kurti warns Serbia may stir Gazimestan unrest
Gazeta Tema
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June 27, 2025
Acting Prime Minister Albin Kurti warned that Serbia might mobilize nationalist groups at Gazimestan during Saturday’s Vidovdan observance to divert attention from domestic protests. Security services say Serbs from Serbia, Montenegro, and...
Trump slaps Brazil with 50% tariff, citing Bolsonaro ‘witch hunt’ trial
Global News
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July 9, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump singled out Brazil for import taxes of 50 per cent on Wednesday for its treatment of its former president, Jair Bolsonaro, showing that personal grudges rather than simple economics were driving the U.S. leader’s use of...
Kosovo, Albania report mixed results in peace index
Gazeta Tema
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June 26, 2025
Kosovo and Albania saw slight drops in the 2025 Global Peace Index, ranking 63rd and 52nd respectively, the latest report from the Institute for Economics and Peace shows. Kosovo fell three spots, Albania six, as regional peace trends shifted...
Kosovo court gives MPs 30 days to pick speaker
Gazeta Tema
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June 26, 2025
Kosovo’s Constitutional Court has ordered parliament to elect a speaker and five deputy speakers within 30 days, after weeks of deadlock. Lawmakers have held 37 sessions since April 15 without completing the leadership vote, following February’s...
Kosovo’s top court asks lawmakers to end their political stalemate and elect a speaker in 30 days
Associated Press
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June 26, 2025
PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo’s Constitutional Court on Thursday asked the country’s newly elected lawmakers in Parliament to end three months of political stalemate and elect a new speaker within 30 days. The court’s move came at the request of...
Kosovo Regional Command East End Of Tour Video
DVIDS - Georgia
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June 26, 2025
The 41st Infantry Brigade Combat Team commanded the 34th rotation of Kosovo Force Regional Command East. The KFOR deployment journey for the 41st began in July 2024 at Fort Johnson, Louisiana and concluded in June 2025 at Camp Bondsteel, Kosovo....
Kosovo Prepares For Deportees From US Amid Warnings Balkans Becoming A Migrant 'Warehouse'
Radio Free Europe - Radio Liberty
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June 26, 2025
With illegal immigration a fraught issue in Europe and the United States, Western countries are increasingly kicking the political football over to the Balkans. But questions are building over whether the countries of the region are ready to catch...
Kosovo businesses oppose power market shift
Gazeta Tema
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June 26, 2025
Kosovo’s leading business organization has urged the government to delay a decision forcing local companies into the free electricity market, warning the move could trigger widespread economic disruption. The Kosovo Chamber of Commerce (OEK),...
Indiana National Guard soldier earn combat patches for valor in Kosovo
1340 AM WBIW - Indiana
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June 30, 2025
EDINBURGH — More than 300 Hoosier Guardsmen from the Indiana National Guard’s 76th Infantry Brigade Combat Team received their coveted combat patches during a ceremony at Camp Atterbury on Wednesday, symbolizing their distinguished service in...
Kosovo MFA: Successful Evacuation of Several Citizens from Israel Completed
Euronews Albania
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June 25, 2025
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Diaspora of Kosovo (MFA) announced on Wednesday that it had successfully completed the evacuation of several Kosovar citizens from Israel during the 12-day war between Iran and Israel. The ministry stated that...
Joint Albania–Kosovo police patrols start amid summer tourism surge
Gazeta Tema
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June 30, 2025
As summer tourism ramps up, the State Police of Albania and Kosovo have signed a cooperation memorandum to launch joint road policing across Albanian territory starting July 1. The agreement, signed by Albanian State Police Director Ilir Proda and...
The 'Kosovo Corner' is the latest addition to the National Library in Sofia
BNR - Radio Bulgaria
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June 30, 2025
Photo: Embassy of Kosovo to the Republic of Bulgaria The 'Corner of Kosovo' has been opened at the Sts. Cyril and Methodius National Library. It brings the total number of corners dedicated to different national literatures in the 'History of the...
Kosovo civil society protests parliamentary deadlock
Gazeta Tema
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June 25, 2025
Civil society groups held a protest outside Kosovo’s parliament on Wednesday, calling on lawmakers to end a four-month political stalemate and convene the newly elected legislature. Demonstrators carried signs reading “Chairs are for work, not...
Coalition aims to simplify replacing W Balkan driving licences with Slovenian
STA
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July 9, 2025
Ljubljana, 9 July - The coalition tabled on Wednesday draft amendments to the Drivers Act aimed at simplifying procedures to replace valid driving licences issued in North Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Kosovo and Serbia with a...
Diamant Hysenaj, GOP businessman and immigrant from Kosovo, to challenge AOC
New York Post
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June 29, 2025
A Republican city real-estate developer says his experience with war in his native Kosovo will help him topple Democratic Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. “I came here as a young kid and had to make my way in a tough neighborhood in The...
Ex-Serbian FM urges Kosovo recognition, NATO path
Gazeta Tema
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June 29, 2025
Former Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Drašković has called on Serbia to recognize the reality of Kosovo and support its membership in international bodies, including the Council of Europe and Interpol. In an interview with Montenegro’s Pobjeda...
Kosovo readies plan to host 50 U.S.-deported individuals
Gazeta Tema
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June 24, 2025
Kosovo’s Interior Ministry is advancing a temporary protection plan to shelter 50 individuals deported from the U.S., as approved by the cabinet on June 11. The ministry is coordinating with U.S. authorities to ensure smooth reception,...