Experts from the Committee for the Western Balkans, a body charged by the EU
Council of Ministers with analyzing the region's development, recently visited
Kosovo for the first time. After returning to Brussels they concluded that
international standards were virtually not being applied in the province at all,
that the economic and social situation in the province was very poor, and that
substantial EU financial aid had been put to poor use.

Wow! What e revelation! Doesn’t EU financial aid go to actually pay experts from EU countries to come up with ideas on development? All EU aid comes with strings attached and by the time the government gets the money, things are already decided. Not to protect the government, they are to blame for many things over which it has authority, but its hands are tied behind the back.

Veton Surroi, Kosova’s negotiating group member will soon propose “a constitutional law for minority communities, in order their rights to be ranked into constitutional and not into political categories.” Last week he also suggested linking the concessions made to Serbs in Kosova with the rights of Albanians in southern Serbia. This is win-win situation to me.

The mortal remains of 11 Serbs “kidnapped in Gnjilane, the village of Dvorane near Suva Reka, Caglavica near Pristina, Prizren, Orahovac and the village of Mlecane near Klina” in ’98 and ‘99 are given to their relatives in Serbia.

KEK is considering selling the consumer debt it is owed to an international company. If that happens, hone your bounty hunting skills and start making money.

By UNMIK’s 2005/5 executive decision, 800 hectares of land around the Decani monastery were given temporary extratrritoriality. From those, 200 ha are social property and another 600 ha are property of Albanians, in the municipality with the highest unemployment in Kosova. Father Sava Janjic from the Decani monastery has denied the accusations from Albanians that the church is seeking extraterritoriality, rather “institutional protection.” Two things here: since he didn't ask for that kind of protection, why hasn't Fr. Sava done anything to let Albanians that surround his oasis work their lands, considering that good relations are essential for all neighbors concerned. And TMK and police have offered institutional protection before, but it was turned down.