The first in a series of trainings for civil society organizations from the municipalities of Gnjilan, Lipljan, Strpce, Peja, Leposavic was held within the ALVED project.

Just as the victory of the Self-Determination Movement (Vetevendosje) in the resent Kosovo elections was expected, so it should be the shift in Albin Kurti’s position on his “unrealistic political goals”. As the most plausible candidate for the Kosovo Prime Minister, Kurti will reconsider his attitude regarding the exclusion of the Srpska List from the future Government and the marginalisation of the dialogue with Belgrade, it has been concluded during the debate “What After the Elections?”.   

With only few technical problems on the ground, Kosovo’s early parliamentary elections on February 14 came about regularly. Despite the coronavirus pandemic, surprises occurred neither during the prelection campaign nor when the polls closed. Albin Kurti’s Self-determination Movement (Vetevendosje) won the majority of votes; the exact number is yet to be officially confirmed. Srpska Lista won the majority of votes within the Kosovo Serb Community.

“The existing law, no longer means anything in practice”, says Ognjen Gogić, manager of the project “Creating a bilingual Kosovo”, which is implemented by the NGO AKTIV. He emphasizes that many citizens are not aware of their legal rights. During the first podcast within the series “My language, my right”, he emphasized that many citizens are not aware of their legal rights.

Head of the Doctors and Pharmacists Union and anesthesiologist Rade Panić says that Covid-19 has been proven to cause greater problems for human health than the vaccine against the disease. “None of the vaccines has any severe side effects”, he said. Professor at the Belgrade Medical Faculty Goran Belojević believes that, when it comes to mass vaccination, as many people as possible should be vaccinated within the shortest time period in order to reduce mortality.    

The pandemic crisis did not create new problems between non-majority communities and the central institutions in Kosovo, so much as it exposed and further amplified long-standing ones - this was the main conclusion from the zoom conference “Non-majority communities in Kosovo during the pandemic crisis” that was held by NGO AKTIV on the 4th of February.

The Constitutional Court of Kosovo has brought political parties and citizens to the polls again. Early parliamentary elections are scheduled for February 14. Why and how do we get into a new election process? The guests of the new “Sporazum” show are political scientists Stefan Surlić and Beluj Beqaj and Executive Director of NGO Aktiv Miodrag Milićević.