The Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni at the summit of the European Political Community in Moldova met the Serbian President, Alexander Vucic. The Foreign Minister, Antonio Tajani, at the meeting of NATO diplomats in Oslo, recalled the crisis in Kosovo: "Everyone has insisted that dialogue between Vucic and Kurti can prevail". […]
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Forty-one KFOR soldiers, belonging to the NATO contingent in Kosovo, including 14 Italians, were injured in the serious clashes with Serbian demonstrators in Zvecan. Of the 14 wounded Italians, three are serious but not life threatening. They were hit by Molotov cocktails and other incendiary artifacts. KFOR troops intervened in Zvecan, in the north [...]
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Europe and the United States have convinced Serbia to stop the protests in the north of Kosovo where minorities of Serbian origin live, softened by Aleksandar Vucic and invited to remove the barricades in Mitrovica and other northern towns. Vucic then revoked the state of alert for the Serbian armed forces and [...]
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Kosovo has closed its main border with Serbia after Belgrade placed its army on high alert. Brussels and Washington are concerned about the tense situation in northern Kosovo and have called for immediate action to de-escalate. Thus in a joint note: "We ask [...]
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KFOR, the NATO force in Kosovo, confirmed press reports of a shooting that took place in Zubin Potok, one of the four largest municipalities in the north with a Serb majority. The shots, Kfor reported, took place not far from a NATO force patrol, but no injuries or damage to property were reported. According to […]
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The President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, has asked the NATO mission in Kosovo (KFOR) and the European Union civilian mission in Kosovo (Eulex) for "guarantees" to protect the Kosovar Serbs who have erected barricades to protest against the arrest of a former police officer, Dejan Pantic. The premier of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, has intimated to the Serbian population [...]
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The resentments between Serbia and Kosovo have by no means subsided after so many years since the war of the 90s. Over the years there have been many moments of friction, but last night the situation became very tense when the Kosovo authorities closed two border crossings with Serbia due to blockades [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) Yesterday in Brussels perhaps an important page was written for Europe which, with the war on its doorstep, with a stroke of the back, decided to accept the status of candidacy to become members of the Union a Ukraine, Moldova and Macedonia. The only reservation was left to Macedonia which was [...]
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The negotiation session at expert level held yesterday in Brussels as part of the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina started uphill and confirmed the great distance between the two positions. This was reported by the head of the Serbian delegation Petar Petkovic at the end of the meeting, chaired by EU special envoy Miroslav Lajcak. In the three hours and [...]
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On 12 June 1999, the first NATO forces entered Kosovo on a UN mandate at the end of the Alliance air campaign that had put an end to the bloody inter-ethnic conflict between Kosovars and Serbs. For having contributed uninterruptedly for 21 years to the security and freedom of movement of all citizens of Kosovo, respecting [...]
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(by Francesco Matera) The situation in Kosovo is apparently very calm even if the resentment between the two major ethnic groups of Kosovo, Albanians and Serbs, is strong. Albanians, especially the younger generations, nurture and harbor day to day, a resentment that is difficult to control and tame. What the Serbs have done to their [...]
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(by The International Institute for Middle-East and Balkan Studies (IFIMES) in Ljubljana, Slovenia) Kosovo has been thrown in a deep political crisis ever since its incumbent government was formed in September 2017. Ramush Haradinaj's government is composed of the PAN coalition gathered around Kadri Veseli's Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK), the Initiative for Kosovo (Nisma) [...]
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He was wanted for instigation to commit a crime with the purpose of terrorism. Two Albanian fugitives have also been tracked He landed in Ciampino, with a flight by the Air Force, GD 27, a Kosovar citizen, wanted because he was struck by an order of custody in prison issued by the Gip at the Court of Brescia for the crime of incitement to crime with [...]
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Belgrade - After the arrest of 13 ethnic Serb policemen in northern Kosovo, Aleksandar Vucic placed the army and police forces on maximum alert and called an urgent meeting of the National Security Council to examine the situation of high tension created in the country. Second […]
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Federica Mogherini, the EU High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy, in her recent meeting in Brussels with the new Pristina negotiating team, made three demands - the abolition of the 100% increase in customs taxation on imports from Serbia, the conclusion of the dialogue with Belgrade by the first half of this year and an agreement [...]
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Kosovar President Hashim Thaci, in an interview with the French magazine "Politique internationale" released during his visit to Paris, declared that the European Union does not have a common vision on Kosovo and that Europe cannot hope to speak with one voice only on the most important issues, such as Russia and Syria, if [...]
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Staff of the Italian Army and the Italian Table Tennis Federation, with the support of the Ministry of Defense and the patronage of the Italian National Olympic Committee and the Italian Paralympic Committee, will bring table tennis to some of the operating theaters abroad where Italian military personnel are employed. The engine of the idea was Lieutenant Colonel Gianfranco Paglia, proponent of the birth of the Group [...]
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