PACE legal committee:

🇽🇰 is a ‘European State’ for the purposes of Article 4 of the Statute of the Council of Europe and the criteria of statehood under international law.

The committee unanimously approves the opinion favoring Kosovo's accession to the Council of Europe.

.DUA LIPA is on the cover of #TIME100 as one of the 100 most influential people in 🌎.

“Being from Kosovo is just such a big part of who I am,” she tells TIME.

“🇽🇰 has one of the youngest populations in Europe. Now that their passports mean something, it feels really good.”

.Hillary Clinton addressed #WPSRKS2024 :

'I vividly remember refugee camps in 🇲🇰 & listening to Kosovars telling me their tales of slaughter & forced exodus.

After Bill called NATO to end the bloody ethnic cleansing, we traveled to 🇽🇰 & met with women rebuilding their lives.'

A senior official from the Kosovo Police provided details of the Banjska terrorist attacks to The Telegraph from the scene of the attacks.

He stated that while the authorities were prepared for such an attack, the sheer volume of weaponry involved was shocking.

In the full report, the journalist explicitly states that she was instructed *by the US troops* to wear a bulletproof vest out of an abundance of caution.

A news story detailing the systematic discrimination against Albanians in the Presheva Valley has received a Swiss Press Award nomination.

The story was authored by Peter Balzli and Kushtrim Kadriu Kushtrim Isa for the Swiss public broadcaster.

Vucic admits Srpska Lista doesn't have the votes to recall the mayors in northern Kosovo municipalities:

The referendum requires 50% of [registered] voters plus 1 vote. There aren't that many Serbs living there!

He attacks the Quint, calling them 'liars.'

The latest Freedom House Nations in Transit report on trends between 2019 and 2024:

Democratizing:

🇽🇰 Kosovo
🇺🇦 Ukraine
🇲🇩 Moldova

Autocratizing:

🇷🇸 Serbia
🇬🇪 Georgia
🇭🇺 Hungary

Cycling between the two:

🇦🇱 Albania
🇦🇲 Armenia
🇲🇰 North Macedonia
🇧🇦 BiH
🇲🇪 Montenegro

The Kosovo Army received 5 Rheinmetall military trucks donated by Germany.

Kosovo is the country that will record the highest economic growth among the Western Balkans 6 in 2024 and 2025, according to the World Bank's biannual report published today.

This is the draft of the Srebrenica Genocide resolution, scheduled for a vote at the UN General Assembly on May 2nd.

The resolution designates July 11th as an annual Day of Commemoration for the Srebrenica Genocide and condemns any denial of the Srebrenica Genocide.

Gëzuar Bajramin!

Have a joyful and blessed Eid.

Today, an explosive device was found under a vehicle in Leposavic, northern Kosovo.

🇽🇰 Police EOD unit removed the explosive. 🇺🇸 KFOR EOD were also present.

🇽🇰 Interior Minister released this footage & stated that the Vucic regime's attempts to intimidate 🇽🇰 Serbs will fail.

Endrita Brahimi, a Kosovo Army Cadet Officer, has been awarded the Commander's Coin by the UK's Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.

Former President and PM of Slovenia, Borut Pahor, is seeking to replace Lajcak as EU's special envoy for the dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia, with the support of the Slovenian Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, according to Slovenian media.

The Greens/European Free Alliance voted against the decision.

Dutch MEP Strik:
'These passports are being instrumentalised by Vucic to uphold a parallel institution and prevent successful integration of KS-Serbs.
It would be a very wrong decision if the EU legitimizes this...'

This would create an unprecedented situation:

If Kosovo Serbs enter the EU with Serbian passports and overstay or commit crimes or apply for asylum and refuse to return, Kosovo would have to take responsibility for them, even though they didn't enter the EU with a 🇽🇰 passport.