Balkan Ambassadorships?
With Engel possibly looking at ambassadorships, some have speculated whether a Balkan role could be in the cards for the outgoing lawmaker.
Balkan postings will likely open up by early 2022 as U.S. ambassadors in Kosovo and Bosnia-Herzegovina reach the typical three-year term limit for service in a country.
The Biden administration may also appoint special envoys to the region, including for Serbia-Kosovo talks.
Engel would not be good news for negotiations between Pristina and Belgrade. He has become too biased, too one-sided, and he is totally out of touch with what is happening on the ground in Serbia.
Political chaos returns to Kosovo following a court ruling that invalidates the mandate of prime minister Avdullah Hoti.
Kosovo is heading for a snap election after the country’s top court annulled a parliamentary vote that installed Prime Minister Avdullah Hoti (pictured above), possibly unleashing a new crisis in Europe’s youngest democracy.
Kosovo’s constitutional court ruled that a parliamentary vote which in June installed Mr Hoti as prime minister was invalid as one of the MPs who made the new government’s majority possible, Etem Arifi, had earlier been convicted for fraud. Two months previously, a vote of no confidence had brought down the previous executive of Albin Kurti after less than three months in office.
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Former President Hashim Thaci (C) and other rebel chiefs were once feted for liberating Kosovo from Serbia in a 1990s war STRINGER Text size
After more than a decade at the helm, Kosovo s former guerillas may have finally met their match not at home but in The Hague, where they are on trial for war crimes.
It has been a long and hard fall from grace for former president Hashim Thaci and other ex-rebels who were once feted as heroes for liberating Kosovo from Serbia in a late 1990s war, with the help of NATO.
Yet if they were once associated with the joy of that victory, in recent years they have become the face of a political elite accused of corruption and clientelism that has clouded Kosovo s first decade of independence.