Elections should be more like Tinder, where you get to swipe right every time you like someone. It’s the way for a cleaner campaign and fairer outcome.
The current electoral system promotes polarization and badmouthing. Why do citizens of any …
Nato’s Kosovo campaign was just
Michael Brendan Dougherty wrote about “The disaster of Kosovo . . . ” in this week’s issue of the Week magazine. His moralist op-ed laments Kosovo’s economic woes.
But he is absolutely wrong in arguing against humanitarian interventions. Kosovo’s …
Kosova Citizens Petition for Constitutional Reform
(See original in Albanian)
We, citizens of the Republic of Kosovo, are worried about our democracy. For almost three months after the general elections, our representatives have been unable to carry their duties, and a new government is yet …
This is Obama’s last chance
Strikes against ISIL come some “three years too late”: it is too late to reserve the suffering, yet in time to contain the harm that has been done. President Obama must use military power to save the humankind, of which …
Macedonian man: Serbian media scapegoating Albanians, inciting violence
Dallas, Texas — A Slavic Macedonian man who lost his brother in a recent lake-side shooting near his country’s capital, Scupi, has denied the possibility of a crime motivated by ethnic hatred, Albanian-language media report.
Mr. Cvetan Stevkovski (also Stefkovski) …
Myths about northern Kosovo
Dallas, Texas — The Serbian government on one side and insensible European idealists on the other — including naive Albanians who simply don’t get it — have propagated fundamental misconceptions about northern Kosovo. The list, though not comprehensive, is a …
Serbia’s economic nonsense
Kosovo’s reciprocating to an export ban by Serbia may lead to incorrigible economic losses for the latter. Even if access to the Kosovar market resumes, Serbian products may no longer be able to regain prominence, having been replaced by domestic …
Nightmare of a Kosovo Serb
Those who brought dread and horror to the Albanians in Kosovo throughout the 1990s have now turned against Kosovar Serbs north of the Iber River. But Prishtina will not allow another tragedy within its sovereign territory
Prishtina, Kosovo — In …
Solving a Constitutional Crisis: A Popular Vote for the President
Washington, D.C. — As the Kosovo leadership insists on constitutional solutions to the present political crisis, consideration ought to be given to the extra-constitutional practices that in fact have led to the current watershed. While the Constitution stipulates parliamentary elections …