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Views and Analysis

Roma children dying of lead poisoning

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Roma child at a trash collection center (C) S. Rexha
This month, Germany's second largest NGO, the "Society for Threatened Peoples" will be sending its Head of Mission for Kosovo, Paul Polansky, to the House of Commons, London and to the EU Headquarters in Brussels in an attempt to save 130 Roma families placed by the United Nations in camps with life-threatening conditions.

Below is a shortened version of the speech delivered by Mr. Polansky in the Brussels hearing.

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Aiming to partition Kosovo, Tadic reveals his Janus-like face

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Ylber Hysa
Serbia’s Janus-faced president wants to take Serbia into the EU, and at the same time wants to partition Kosovo. Can he have his cake and eat it?

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Well-connected? Optimistic voices on Kosovo at the London School of Economics

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By Elizabeth Gowing
It had been an unsettled and unsettling 24 hours in Prishtina with the announcement of the Kosovar government's rejection of the six point proposal for establishing EULEX across Kosovo, as negotiated between Belgrade and the EU.  This was the run-up to the London School of Economics' Tuesday night debate with respected commentators on Kosovo, Tim Judah, Anna Di Lellio, Jelena Bjelica and Daut Dauti presenting their views on Kosovo's Independence and the Balkans: regional implications and challenges.

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Kosovo is betrayed: Brussels fails, Belgrade laughs

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Kosovo is betrayed
Witnessing the European Union’s seemingly star-crossed EULEX mission take shape over the past few weeks has been not unlike observing a train wreck: it’s awful and ghastly, but locked in horrified awe you cannot look away.  It’s a wreck entirely of the EU’s own making, owing to their squeamishness and most unseemly habit of obsessive diplomatic hand wringing.

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German papers: A divided EU has lost credibility in Kosovo

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ImageNine months after the independence of Kosovo, the European Union is still winding in Kosovo. With the help of Russia at the disfuctional UN Security Council, Serbia is threatening to fail the EULEX mission.

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Anna Wiman

Anna Wiman
Freelance Writer and photographer

Elizabeth Gowing

Elizabeth Gowing
Co-Founder at The Ideas Partnership NGO

Henry H. Perritt Jr.

Henry H. Perritt Jr.
Professor of Law Chicago-Kent College

Drilon Gashi

Drilon Gashi
Comm. Counselor to the Prime Minister

Arlind V. Bytyqi

Arlind V. Bytyqi
Editor-in-chief
New Kosova Report
 

Book reviews

Books on Kosovo

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