Pal Lekaj

This happened after the decision of Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti not to travel to Tirana for the preparatory meeting of the Berlin Process at the invitation of his Albanian colleague Edi Rama.

Kosovo's then Prime Minister, Ramush Haradinaj, called it one of the best infrastructural projects in the Balkans on the day it was inaugurated.

But the 61-kilometer-long motorway linking Kosovo and North Macedonia continues to yield controversies and corruption claims.

A 60-km highway connecting the Kosovo capital of Pristina to the border of North Macedonia was officially opened on Wednesday. "If yesterday we dreamed of a Kosovo like this, today it is a reality," President Hashim Thaci of Kosovo said at the ceremony held close to the border with North Macedonia.

The formation of the ZSO has been awaited for five years, as it is Pristina's obligation under the EU-brokered 2013 Brussels agreement.

The Kosovo minister of infrastructure, Pal Lekaj, is now threatening members of the Serb List with arrest should they form the ZSO.

In a move initiated by the opposition Initiative for Kosovo, Nisma, Kosovo opposition parties are hoping a no-confidence motion will oust the government of Isa Mustafa after 42 MPs filed signatures in parliament on Friday.

Kosovo's Parliamentary Commission on Economic Development on Tuesday postponed voting on sending the government's decision to issue a coal research licence to the company Kosovo Energy LLC Envidity for parliamentary approval after opposition MPs demanded more clarity about a scheme that some have described as a virtual monopoly.