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Posts Tagged ‘kosovo’
What’s behind the new tensions in Kosovo?
June 30th, 2023 
Awake Goy Divisions between the Kosovan ethnic Serb minority and ethnic Albanians resurface bringing violent clashes with Nato forces. Is a full-fledged conflict a possibility? What led to this and what are the consequences? Monica Pinna went to Northern Kosovo to find out. Source
NATO boosts security in Kosovo after recent clashes with police and KFOR
June 5th, 2023 Awake Goy A Turkish commando battalion has arrived in northern Kosovo in response to a request from NATO for more troops to help quell violent unrest between ethnic Serbs and Albanians. The battalion arrived in northern Kosovo where there have been a number of recent clashes between police, KFOR troops and ethnic Serbs who boycotted a regional […]
EU lawmakers approve visa free travel for Kosovo
April 18th, 2023 Awake Goy European Union lawmakers on Tuesday gave the green light for citizens from Kosovo to travel freely in Europe without visas from 2024, Source
EU-brokered deal between Serbia and Kosovo is based on a gentleman’s agreement
March 23rd, 2023 Awake Goy The deal made between Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić and Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti in Ohrid is based on a gentleman’s agreement because the Serbian party did not sign the document. Source
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No Comments »Serbia-Kosovo tensions simmer despite leaders’ tacit approval of EU plan
March 1st, 2023 Awake Goy EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has said that “more work is needed” and that the two countries’ leaders would meet again next month. Source
‘No blackmail’: Kosovo PM defies Western pressure over Serbia relations
February 2nd, 2023 Awake Goy Leaned on by US and European allies, Kosovo’s leader warned on Wednesday he would not give in to “blackmail” over a possible pact with their old enemy. Source
Posted in Jewish News Tags: blackmail, defies, kosovo, pressure, relations, Serbia, western No Comments »Two ethnic Serbs injured in Christmas Eve shooting in Kosovo, suspect arrested
January 7th, 2023 Awake Goy An 11-year-old boy and a 21-year-old man were injured after a gunman opened fire from a moving vehicle near the southern town of Shtërpce/Štrpce, Kosovo authorities said on Friday. Source
Posted in Jewish News Tags: Christmas, ethnic, injured, kosovo, serbs, shooting, Suspect No Comments »Has The Battle For Kosovo Been Postponed?
January 2nd, 2023 Awake Goy 2 Jan 2022 By Darko Lazar 2022 will go down in history as the year that ushered in the Ukraine war and permanently changed the world. This seismic event accelerated and intensified the global geopolitical re-composition. It brought back the Cold War doctrine and redefined relations, not just between the collective West and Russia, but […]
Kosovo shuts border with Serbia amid worst crisis in years
December 29th, 2022 Awake Goy The US has called on all sides to “exercise maximum restraint”. Source
US Envoy for Western Balkans visits Kosovo amid rising tensions with Serbia
December 13th, 2022 Awake Goy The US Special Envoy for the Western Balkans has visited Pristina to meet with Kosovo leaders, a day after Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said he would ask the NATO-led peacekeeping force in Kosovo to allow the deployment of 1,000 Serb troops in the Serb-populated north of Kosovo. Kosovo, which used to be part of Serbia, […]
SYRIZA demands explanation on why Patsis had “private meetings” in Kosovo
November 21st, 2022 Awake Goy In an announcement on Saturday, main opposition SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance asked the ruling Mitsotakis government to reveal “who in the prime minister’s office intervened for the meetings held by [Grevena MP Andreas Patsis] in Kosovo.” “In a reply to a question by SYRIZA-PA MPs, the foreign ministry clarified that it had ‘no prior notification’ regarding Patsis’… […]
Posted in Serbia Tags: demands, explanation, kosovo, meetings, patsis, private, syriza No Comments »Thousands demonstrate in Kosovo over alleged rape of girl, 11
September 2nd, 2022 Awake Goy Protesters threw red paint at government buildings in Pristina over the incident.
‘We have a deal’: Kosovo citizens to travel freely to Serbia, says EU foreign policy chief
August 28th, 2022 Awake Goy Serbia will allow Kosovo citizens to enter the country with personal ID cards issued by the government in Prishtina, according to the EU foreign policy chief, settling part of the dispute that led to an escalation of tensions along the border between the two countries in early August. “We have a deal,” Josep Borrell said in a […]
‘We have a deal’: Kosovo citizens to travel freely to Serbia, says EU foreign policy chief
August 28th, 2022 Awake Goy Serbia will allow Kosovo citizens to enter the country with personal ID cards issued by the government in Prishtina, according to the EU foreign policy chief, settling part of the dispute that led to an escalation of tensions along the border between the two countries in early August. “We have a deal,” Josep Borrell said in a […]
‘We have a deal’: Kosovo citizens to travel freely to Serbia, says EU foreign policy chief
August 28th, 2022 Awake Goy Serbia will allow Kosovo citizens to enter the country with personal ID cards issued by the government in Prishtina, according to the EU foreign policy chief, settling part of the dispute that led to an escalation of tensions along the border between the two countries in early August. “We have a deal,” Josep Borrell said in a […]
‘We have a deal’: Kosovo citizens to travel freely to Serbia, says EU foreign policy chief
August 28th, 2022 Awake Goy Serbia will allow Kosovo citizens to enter the country with personal ID cards issued by the government in Prishtina, according to the EU foreign policy chief, settling part of the dispute that led to an escalation of tensions along the border between the two countries in early August. “We have a deal,” Josep Borrell said in a […]
Kosovo war veterans imprisoned for witness intimidation by specialised court
May 21st, 2022 Awake Goy It is the first verdict handed down by the Kosovo Specialist Chambers after it was established in 2015.
Posted in Jewish News Tags: court, imprisoned, intimidation, kosovo, specialised, Veterans, witness No Comments »Kosovo holds second round of municipal elections
November 14th, 2021 Awake Goy Kosovo is holding runoff municipal elections on Sunday in almost two-thirds of the country after the centre-right opposition parties dominated in the first round. About 1.26 million voters in the small Balkan nation on Sunday will be eligible to cast ballots in the second round to elect mayors in 21 out of 38 municipalities. Turnout […]
Tanks, fighter jets spotted near Kosovo border as tensions flare between Serbia and breakaway region
September 27th, 2021 Awake Goy Home » Europe, Wars / Conflicts » Tanks, fighter jets spotted near Kosovo border as tensions flare between Serbia and breakaway region Serbia has been moving tanks and other military hardware towards the Kosovo border, videos circulating online suggest. Tensions between the country and the breakaway region soared after Kosovo banned Serbian license […]
Tensions as Kosovo begins removing Serbian licence plates at border
September 20th, 2021 Awake Goy Tensions are rising at the border between Serbia and Kosovo. It comes as Kosovo deployed additional police at the frontier on Monday to implement a rule to remove Serbian licence plates from cars entering the country. Hundreds of Kosovo Serbs reportedly drove to the border to protest the move, blocking one of the crossing points. […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: begins, kosovo, licence, plates, removing, serbian, tensions No Comments »Prisoner in Kosovo puts the ‘bile’ in mobile as Nokia phone is removed from stomach
September 8th, 2021 Awake Goy Doctors in Kosovo say they have successfully removed a mobile phone from the stomach of a prisoner. The procedure was carried out by surgeons at the university clinical centre in the capital Pristina last week. The 33-year-old prisoner, who has not been named, had been complaining of stomach pains for several days, doctors added. The […]
How EU enlargement apathy could push Kosovo and Albania to join forces
April 16th, 2021 Awake Goy On a visit to Albania in March, Kosovo’s new prime minister, Albin Kurti, called on Albanians to vote for change as Kosovars did on February 14: “Albanians deserve better,” he said. Kurti, an ethnic-Albanian along with around 90% of Kosovo’s 1.8 million population, urged voters to elect the members of his leftist-nationalist Vetevendosje movement who […]
Kosovo: Mannequins used in protest against virus restrictions
April 9th, 2021 Awake Goy A Kosovar restaurant owner is holding an unusual protest – setting mannequins instead of clients on the empty chairs of his closed restaurant. Petrit Kllokoqi, the owner of Bagolina restaurant in the capital Pristina has filled his chairs with mannequins dressed as if to eat breakfast and lunch, complete with menus and bottles of wine. […]
Kosovo’s parliament votes in Vjosa Osmani as president
April 5th, 2021 Awake Goy Kosovo’s parliament on Sunday night swore in Vjosa Osmani, the former speaker of parliament and ally of Albin Kurti’s Vetevendosje! movement, as president. A total of 71 lawmakers in the 120-seat parliament voted in favour of Osmani, with two opposition parties boycotting the vote along with the Serb minority party. Osmani becomes the second female […]
‘I want to live not just survive’: Kosovo and its chronic brain drain problem
March 19th, 2021 Awake Goy In the summer of 2017, Gzim Olluri graduated with a journalism diploma from the University of Pristina. A few weeks later, Olluri was in Zagreb, applying to the Croatian authorities for a work permit so he could take a job on a construction site. “When I submitted the documents they said: ‘How can you work […]
With diplomatic ties established, Kosovo opens embassy in Jerusalem
March 15th, 2021 Awake Goy PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo’s Foreign Ministry said on Sunday it has formally opened its embassy to Israel in the disputed city of Jerusalem. A statement said the move was made after the establishment of diplomatic ties with Israel on February 1 and a Kosovo-Serbia summit held at the White House in September. “The Ministry […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: diplomatic, Embassy, established, Jerusalem, kosovo, opens No Comments »In Mitrovica, a bridge that separates Kosovo’s Albanians and Serbs | Extract
March 14th, 2021 Awake Goy It has been two decades since Serbs and Albanians stopped fighting in northern Kosovo, but relations between the two communities remain strained to this day. In Mitrovica, the bridge over the river Ibar is a testament to that divide, separating the two communities – often literally – from each other. Ian Bancroft has spent more […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: albanians, bridge, extract, kosovo, mitrovica, separates, serbs No Comments »Serbia, Palestinians and ‘secessionists’: Why Israel took so long to commit to Kosovo
February 16th, 2021 Awake Goy News and Partnerships Life and Culture Columnists and Opinion Haaretz Heb and TheMarker Haaretz.com, the online English edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, gives you breaking news, analyses and opinions about Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World. © Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved Source
Posted in Jewish News Tags: commit, israel, kosovo, Palestinians, secessionists, Serbia No Comments »Kosovo artist creates Joe Biden portrait using grains and seeds
January 19th, 2021 Awake Goy An artist in Kosovo created a portrait of US President-elect Joe Biden with grain and seeds ahead of this week’s inauguration. Alkent Pozhegu used 120 kilograms of grains, corn, beans, sunflower seeds and rice for the piece. “I hope, with time, that I will make something much bigger because [Biden] really deserves it. He has […]
