Adem Grabovci

The Municipal Court of Pristina on Friday acquitted all 11 defendants in the "Pronto Case", which has been ongoing for over three years since the Special Prosecutor's Office launched an investigation in 2016 into former MP Adem Grabovci's alleged involvement in influencing public-sector appointments. 

President Hashim Thaci signed a decree to pardon three former Kosovo Liberation Army guerrillas convicted of killing a family in 2001 in revenge because one of them served with the Serbian police.

With opposition to the deal still strong - and a possible lack of MPs' votes to ratify the agreement on demarcation with Montenegro - Kosovo President Hashim Thaci on Wednesday urged the country's parliament and government to pass the deal so that Kosovo can meet the criteria needed for visa liberalization with the EU.

BELGRADE - Kosovar President Hashim Thaci has announced plans to establish a truth and reconciliation commission to help reconcile Kosovo's ethnic-Albanian majority and Serb minority.

Allegations of atrocities committed during the 1998-99 Kosovo war continue to scar relations between the two communities.

President Hashim Thaci said he paid tribute at memorials to Serb war victims as a gesture of reconciliation and was not insulting Kosovo Albanians’ struggle for liberation during the 1990s conflict.

After the prosecution in Kosovo opened a probe into seven more officials of the ruling Democratic Party of Kosovo, PDK - accused of involvement in a wiretap scandal - the party that has long dominated the country is in danger of crumbling, some experts say.

MPs from Kosovo's three opposition parties, Vetevendosje [Self-Determination], The Alliance for the Future of Kosovo, AAK, and Nisma [Initiative for Kosovo] boycotted Tuesday's assembly session, allowing for the first session in months to be held in normal conditions, without being interrupted by tear gas.

The Kosovo parliament will vote on Monday on constitutional amendments that will allow the creation of the special court to try alleged crimes committed by the Kosovo Liberation Army during the conflict in the country.

Deputies from Hashim Thaci's party will not vote for the forming a war crimes court that should deal with the KLA, write Albanian language media in Pristina.

This is the case "although Thaci promised German Chancellor Angela Merkel" that members of his party, the PDK, would vote in favor.