Opposition to government policy With a new government in place, EU-led negotiations on the details of the 2013 agreement with Serbia could resume. At the end of August 2015, it was agreed on a far-reaching autonomy for ten Serb-dominated municipalities in the...
Independence with obstacles In November 2007, the general election in Kosovo was won by the PDK, which received 35 percent of the vote. PDK leader Hashim Thaçi, the former guerrilla leader, was appointed new prime minister. In accordance with his election promise, on...
Milosevic takes over The Albanians also formally demanded that Kosovo become a Yugoslav republic. The demands were strengthened after Tito’s death in 1980, at the same time as the Serbs in the province felt increasingly vulnerable. In 1981, riots broke out in Kosovo,...
In February 2008, the province of Kosovo (Kosovo in Albanian) broke away from Serbia and declared itself an independent state. The Albanian majority cheered, but at the same time the tensions intensified with large sections of the Serbian minority and with Serbia,...
