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Police and prosecutors in Kosovo are struggling to solve violent crimes, particularly when they occur in a northern pocket of the country populated mainly by Serbs, according to a BIRN analysis of crime data illustrated in an interactive map. Violent crime in Kosovo frequently goes unpunished, particularly in the Serb-majority …

On 29 December 2022, the blockade in Jarinje and Bernjak crossing points in the North Kosovo region1 bordering Serbia ended after 19 days, following lengthy negotiations between Serbia and Kosovo with assistance from the European Union (EU) and the United States. However, the uneasy peace remains a cause for concern, …

Serbia is poised to cut the minimum age of criminal responsibility after a 13-year-old went on a shooting spree in a Belgrade school, reaching for the kind of ‘tougher punishment’ response it has deployed before. Studies, however, raise doubts about the deterrent effect. When, in the hours that followed an …

With 508 votes in favour and 76 against, MEPs adopted Vladimir Bilcik’s report on Serbia at the plenary session. After today’s vote, the report becomes the official resolution of the European Parliament on Serbia, reports the portal European Western Balkans (EWB). The integral text of the resolution included an oral …

Numerous citizens who protested in front of the Ministry of Education after the tragedy in vladislav ribnikar elementary school demanded the resignation of Minister Branko Ruzic. The same demand was made by the Youth Initiative for Human Rights, some trade unions, the opposition. President Aleksandar Vucic and Minister Ivica Dacic …

Without the assistance of local actors, Russian influence in the Western Balkans would disappear overnight. But the opposite is also true. As long as local politicians can capitalize on invoking Moscow’s long shadow, Russia will remain a salient part of the Balkan landscape. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 …

Instead of each subsequent meeting of the highest officials of Serbia and Kosovo being more and more simple and distracted from the danger that ordinary people, citizens of Kosovo, currently of Serbian nationality, are safer and removed from the danger to life and bare existence, despite the mutual consent to …

Regarding the initiative to open the main bridge on the Ibar connecting the municipalities of North and South Mitrovica, KFOR says that this issue must be resolved through political dialogue. “The reopening of the bridge is an issue that must be resolved through political dialogue. The NATO mission, KFOR, continues …

Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti said ahead of the new round of dialogue on the normalization of relations with Serbia that he will not allow the creation of some form of Republika Srpska in the north of Kosovo, Croatian news agency Hina reported today. At the meeting between Kurti and …

They’ve been accused of dismembering enemies with chainsaws, assassinating senior government officials, and trading on ties with intelligence agencies. They’ve smuggled cocaine — tons and tons of it — across the world and now feed a sizable share of Europe’s drug habit. Yet few outsides of law enforcement have heard …