The expansion of the “Central Park” shopping centre in Prishtina’s Industrial Zone has sparked controversy, with legal challenges and concerns over transparency at the forefront. The Urban Planning Directorate of Prishtina Municipality has repeatedly modified construction conditions to expand the shopping centre ‘Central Park’ in the Industrial Zone of Prishtina. The original 2019 construction permit…
Hashim Thaçi, the former president of Kosovo, traveled to Kosovo under tight security to visit his father, who is hospitalised at the University Clinical Center of Kosovo. The visit was arranged under a special custody order by the Specialist Chambers, where Thaçi remains in detention facing charges of war crimes. Former president of Kosovo Hashim…
Kosovo Procurement Review Organization ordered the Gjakova Regional Water Supply Company to annul a car servicing contract after KALLXO.com found alleged procurement irregularities. KALLXO.com found that Hasan Krasniqi, Chief Executive Officer of the Gjakova Water Supply Company, KRU Gjakova, is involved in selecting businesses for servicing the company’s vehicles. Three days after KALLXO.com published the…
Her mental image of the 1990s, however, “had a lot of obscurity and unknown territory”, she told BIRN. Albert Bashota provided this photo for ‘Album 1990-1999’. Photo courtesy of Gresa Nuredini “I was always quite curious and interested to know what war actually looked like for my people, for the oppressed.” In exploring the past,…
The recent proposed arms sale to Kosovo establishes the UK as an engaged player in the Western Balkans, where Russian influence and hybrid warfare methods increasingly endanger stability. The United Kingdom’s recent consideration of arms sales to Kosovo represents the crystallisation of a new type of British foreign policy and a new era in Britain’s approach…
Pensioners in Kosovo face space constraints for activities, , lack of health insurance, and low pensions, regardless of their contributions to the country. Remzi Dragidella is an economist, but since he retired seven years ago, he has found companionship primarily through playing cards and chess at one of the elderly centres in the capital Prishtina.“In…
Kosovo on Sunday will mark one month since its voters went to polls to elect a new parliament, but the process is far from over, as the Central Election Commission, CEC, still has not announced the final results. “Certification of results first,” Prime Minister Albin Kurti, whose Vetevendosje party came first in the February 9…
On March 7th, widely celebrated as Teacher’s Day, a discussion took place at the Reporting House of Journalists, focusing on the huge role of “Home Schools” in Kosovo during the ‘90s, which were created as an answer to government oppression of the Albanian population at the time. Former teacher, students, and activists gathered on Friday…
“Most of the intimidating comments came on Facebook, where older generations who saw themselves as more intellectual were talking about the degeneration of society and youth.” It was even worse offline. “Sometimes I’d be walking down the street and I’d hear people talking, shouting, or even following me. Most of them were young people trying…
Kostyantyn Grygorenko, editor-in-chief of the east Ukrainian local newspaper ‘Izium Horizons’ and Alex Anderson, former International Crisis Group project director for Kosovo and Amnesty International and OSCE researcher in eastern Ukraine, meet in Prishtina, resuming a discussion started as panellists amid air raid alerts at a large journalists’ forum in Kyiv in late 2023. This…