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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 north, that Kosovo would have its own country code, that the energy transfer between Serbia and Kosovo would be regulated and that the barricades would be removed on the bridge dividing the city of Mitrovica. The opposition parties, led…

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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 17 February 2008, Thaçi proclaimed Kosovo’s independence, as the UN negotiations did not lead anywhere. The declaration of independence took place unilaterally, without a decision by the UN Security Council. In the near future, a number of countries recognized the…

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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, which was crushed by the Yugoslav military. Many Serbs left Kosovo for fear that the Albanians would take over completely and the proportion of Serbs had now fallen to just under ten percent. In 1989, Slobodan Milosevic was elected President…

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