With the new episode of Sporazoom we’re celebrating sex years from the signing of the Brussels Agreement. Even though it was designated as a historic contribution to the processes of normalization and reconciliation, nowadays its implementation has been disrupted and no one knows whether it will be implemented further on.

Within the scope of the project supported by UN Women, Coordination mechanism from Zvečan and NGO Aktiv have organized planting of pines, alongside with Elementary school Vuk Karadžić from Zvečan. The Office of UNMIK in Zvečan has also supported this activity, with a special gratitude to the Municipality of Zvečan for their help.

With the joint cooperation of AKTIV and D4D on Tuesday, April 16^th at the Civic Energy Center (CEC), judges, representatives of civil society, as well as the Chairperson of the Election Complaints and Appeals Panel Mr. Mul Desku and members of the local election commissions gathered together to work on updating the manual of institutions dealing with the unravelling electoral disputes. The workshop was organized with an aim of getting inputs, suggestions and recommendations that would enable understanding of how the election process unfolds and the complexity of these election operations. Thus some electoral disputes may be very difficult to resolve and require profound technical knowledge and expertise in electoral operations. Therefore, presence of the relevant experts was of the great importance. The workshop was facilitated by the Local Expert Mr. Florent Spahija.

The new episode of TV show Sporazoom which is aired on TV Mreža, RTV Kim and TV Mitrovica was dedicated to the topics of the Brussels dialogue and normalization of relations between Prishtina and Belgrade on the eve of European Parliament election, which are going to take place from 23^rd to 25^th of May this year.

On Thursday, the 18^th of April, NGO AKTIV had the pleasure of hosting an open discussion attended by the Ambassador of the United Kingdom in Kosovo, Mr.Ruairí O’Connell. The discussion was held as part of the project Critical Thinking and Analysis of Global Affairs that is geared at increasing participants’ understanding of outside political developments and their potential impact on Kosovo and the Western Balkan Region. The discussion was moderated by the Head of NGO AKTIV’s Policy Office, Caleb Waugh, and covered a range of various issues that can affect internal dynamics in Kosovo that ranged from Brexit and potential general elections in 2019, to partition and inter-ethnic relations in Kosovo. 

On Thursday, the 18th of April, NGO AKTIV will have the pleasure of hosting His Excellency, the British Ambassador in Pristina, Mr.Ruairí O’Connell.

Within the project Creating Bilingual Kosovo, which is implemented by NGO Aktiv and supported by the Norwegian Embassy in Kosovo, in close cooperation with the Office of Language Commissioner, a new Facebook page called My language rights rule has been created for the purposes of promoting the bilingual principle in Kosovo. The aim of this Page and the project itself is to promote sustainable changes in institutional policies and practices related to deficiencies and malpractices in implementation of the Law on Use of Languages in Kosovo. Info related to activities within the project will be shared on the Facebook, including news which deal with the implementation of the Law on Use of Languages in Kosovo.