KALLXO.com has estimated that Kosovo’s political parties spent almost 5 million euros on electoral campaigns for the February parliamentary elections and the October local elections. Money was mainly spent on advertising, although full transparency remains an issue. Kosovo’s social media sphere in 2025 was filled with campaigning politicians as the country was overrun with polls,…
Noah Natale Schwab was stationed in a Kosovo town for more than two years as part of the American Peace Corps. He sat with Prishtina Insight at the end of his mission and reflected on the experience he gained. Everyone knows Noah Natale Schwab in the multiethnic village of Dubravë, not more than four kilometers…
A claim that Kosovo Police assaulted a young man at a checkpoint in North Kosovo sparked widespread outrage and calls for intervention, but camera footage later revealed the allegation was false. On January 13, the Kosovo police stopped a vehicle for a routine check near the Bistrica Bridge checkpoint on the Mitrovica–Leposavic road, an area…
Kosovo’s representation in the newly formed Peace Board for Gaza is a diplomatic success and signals strengthening relations with the Trump Administration, says Edward P. Joseph, a lecturer and Senior Fellow at Johns Hopkins SAIS in Washington, D.C. On January 22, President Vjosa Osmani received significant attention in Kosovo after posting a photo of herself…
Kosovo police held 109 suspects as part of a major operation in Prizren municipality related to allegations of fraud in the December 28 parliamentary elections. Kosovo police took 109 people into custody in the southern town of Prizren on Friday in a large-scale operation related to allegations of vote-tampering in the parliamentary election on December…
More than two years since the deal was made, EU Special Representative announces that Serbia and Kosovo’s negotiators have finally agreed to form a joint commission to help find more missing persons from the 1990s war. About two-and-a-half years after Kosovo’s premier Albin Kurti and Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic agreed to a declaration on missing…
Kosovo, Bulgaria and Turkey have signed the Board of Peace Charter, under Donald Trump’s auspices, but several other Balkan countries are still pondering whether to join the initiative. Kosovo Bulgaria and Turkey, along with representatives of other countries, joined US President Donald Trump on Wednesday in Davos, Switzerland, at the signing ceremony of the Board…
Kosovo remembers its first President, the historic pacifist leader, Ibrahim Rugova, on the 20th anniversary of his death. On Wednesday, Kosovo’s citizens, politicians, and diplomats gathered to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the death of Ibrahim Rugova, Kosovo’s first President—the pacifist also known as the architect of the country’s independence. President Vjosa Osmani, whose political…
Gentrit Hykolli from Drenas vividly recalls how in 1999, when he was only 6 years old, he and his family were forced onto a train by Serbian forces and expelled from Kosovo. In 1998, “we first found refuge in the mountains, in shelters in the surrounding villages, at times we returned [home], and we were…
The Kosovo Central Election Commission, CEC, on Monday decided to recount votes cast at all polling stations in all 28 municipalities, after a recount in ten municipalities, which included 36 per cent of the 2,557 ballot boxes, showed manipulation of the votes cast for MP candidates in the first count. Kreshnik Radoniqi, head of the…