Security Cameras Proliferate in Kosovo – and Privacy Complaints Rise
The agency tasked with cracking down on violations of privacy in Kosovo says it can hardly keep up with the number of complaints about security cameras. KAYNAK: Balkan Insight
Don’t Blame the Hague Tribunal for Amnesia About War Crimes
Eight years after the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal closed, as the memory of its work fades, new generations know increasingly little about even the worst wartime atrocities. KAYNAK: Balkan Insight
Visiting Thaci in Hague Jail, Albania PM Slates ’Shameful’ War Court
Albania’s Edi Rama lashed out at the Hague-based Specialist Chambers war crimes court following a visit to Kosovo’s ex-President Hashim Thaci in detention, calling it a ‘theatre of shame’. KAYNAK:…
Kosovo’s 2025 Ends as it Began, at the Ballot Box
Something for the curiosity books: voters in Kosovo have been called to parliamentary polls twice within the calendar year after politicians failed to form a government after the first, in…
Monday Briefing from the Balkans: December 15, 2025
Catch up on the weekend’s most important developments with Balkan Insight’s digest of news from countries across the region. KAYNAK: Balkan Insight
Week in Review: Between Optimism and Gridlock
Our selection of Premium stories this week brings a note of optimism that some long-standing problems and deadlocks could be resolved in the near future, tempered with an inevitable dose…
‘The Deepest Wound’: Playing Politics with the Missing from the Kosovo War
Arbenita Muhaxheri has spent most of her life wondering what happened to her mother after she was stopped at a Serbian checkpoint in 1999 during the Kosovo war. A deal…
Kosovo’s Political Crisis Fuels Calls For New Funding Model for Public Broadcaster
Without a functioning parliament to approve funding, some 700 employees of Kosovo’s public broadcaster were twice left without pay this year, underscoring the need for a new funding model not…
Kosovo Indicts Three for November 2024 Canal Explosion
Special Prosecution indicts three over the explosion at the Iber Lepenc water canal in November 2024, which the government described as a terrorist attack. KAYNAK: Balkan Insight
Kosovo’s Parties Prepare for Showdown at 2025’s Second General Election
Political parties have made the final touches to their candidate lists for the December 28 parliamentary elections, hoping to better their results from February's inconclusive polls, which left the country…