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On 6 May, the Gorani community traditionally gathers on the hills and in the villages of the Gora region to celebrate the beginning of spring. This day is considered the national holiday of the Gorani and has been recognised as…
On 4 May, a Kosovo Serbian inhabitant of the village Pasjane/Pasjan in the municipality of Parteš/Partesh, was reported to have been stabbed by two Kosovo Albanian inhabitants of the neighbouring village of Vllashticë/Vlaštica in what appears to be a case…
May 4th marked the end of a deadlock between Kosovo’s four Serb-majority northern municipalities and the central government on the status of the municipal budgets in Zveçan/Zvečan, Zubin Potok, Leposaviq/Leposavić and Mitrovicë/Mitrovica North. The stalemate began on February 28th, after…
In light of the recent outburst of violence in Mitrovicë/Mitrovica, ECMI Kosovo affirms its position that it is of imperative importance that all incidents are examined individually by the relevant authorities, in a speedy and transparent manner, to prevent further…
Although the agreement on the formation of the Association/Community of Serb-majority Municipalities leaves plenty of room for diverging interpretations, the discussions on the competences and structure of the Association have ignored the few solid legal provisions provided in the Brussels…
The debates surrounding the establishment of the Association and the implementation of the Brussels Agreements relating to the general integration of the Serb community in Kosovo are leading to an increasingly worrisome political deadlock along fixed Albanian–Serb ethnic lines. This…