In Kosovo, Professors and Students Scramble to Adapt to AI
The use of artificial intelligence tools is widespread among Kosovo’s university students, and their professors are racing to catch up. KAYNAK: Balkan Insight
‘Still Alive?’ Kosovo’s Elderly Forced to Prove Their Pension Rights
Campaigners have welcomed a Supreme Court judgment declaring that an order obliging certain types of pensioners to prove they are not dead in order to access their pensions is illegal.…
‘Foreigners Law’ Scares Kosovo Serbs and Albanians from Serbia
Legislation enforcing a system of residence permits and vehicle licences has caused alarm among Serbs who have no Kosovo identity documents, as well as Albanians from southern Serbia who spend…
Week in Review: The Wheel of Fortune
Our selection of Balkan Insight Premium stories this week takes a look at the changing fortunes, power dynamics and neighbourly relations of countries and politicians in south-east Europe. KAYNAK: Balkan…
Letter from Brussels: Is a Hopeful Breeze Blowing Through the EU’s ‘Waiting Room’?
Brussels has already gone cold on a scheme to allow some aspirant countries like Albania and Serbia second-tier membership – but that doesn’t mean that other creative approaches to European…
Rebel With a Cause: Kosovo Ex-Prisoner’s Pursuit of Justice Deserves Acclaim
Forty-five years after his first arrest at a student protest, former political prisoner Xun Cetta’s long struggle against inequity casts a harsh light on an opportunistic post-war political class in…
As UN Considers Fate of Hague Court Archives, Kosovo Seeks Equal Access
As the United Nations looks at relocating the vast archives compiled by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, non-UN member Kosovo is pushing for better access in order…
Presidency Dispute Leaves Kosovo at a Crossroads Between Progress and Confrontation
The battle over the election of a new president has laid bare a political culture in which procedural rules are being weaponised to bring constitutional processes to a halt. KAYNAK:…
Week in Review: Friends, Foes and Chocolate Thieves
From European Union accession hopes to ongoing corruption investigations, our selection of Premium stories this week takes a look at the political wheeling and dealing going on behind the scenes…
Thaci Trial Verdict Will Decide Legacy of Kosovo Specialist Chambers
The upcoming verdict in the war crimes trial of former Kosovo President Hashim Thaci and his co-accused will have enormous consequences for the defendants themselves, for the court, for Kosovo…