President returns special court law to parliament
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President Justina Shiroka Pula has sent the law governing the Specialist Chambers back to the Assembly, responding to a request from the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK). The move reopens a volatile debate over the court that tries former Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) members; one observer noted that anyone participating in the revision may be branded an opponent of the KLA itself.
The Assembly met to handle the usual domestic friction, forming a commission for board selections and debating national security and corruption. While Prime Minister Albin Kurti told the Berlin Process Summit that it is time for the country to be granted EU candidate status, the domestic reality remains more complicated: an oncology patient reported that the clinic has run out of the cancer drug Palbociclib.
Opposition lawmakers are also demanding to know why the country has been excluded from a strategic dialogue with the United States. Following the verdict of the Specialized Chambers in The Hague against four former KLA leaders, the country faces a difficult battle to strengthen its public diplomacy amidst a lack of active lobbying in Washington.