EU mission to reduce number of staff in Kosovo

because the Kosovo institutions made certain progress and the new reality has to be recognized".

That would be progress in burning down returnees houses and a continued free hand to do nothing about extremists to continue to target non-albanians who seek to cleanse the remaining few with the KPS as ever always turning up late and never finding anyone responsible.

There's a great future in Kosova selling bananas at some point in the future.

Less EULEX police? That's good news for Pristina (and all the criminals in Kosovo). Maybe the 'business' situation in Kosovo will further improve and Kosovo will not only be Europe's main drug hub, but achieve to reach that extremly honorable position on a worldwide level?

Joking aside, NATO forces will leave Afganistan, too. After years of trying in vain, people realize that it's impossible to establish some minimal structures of law and justice in those places.

Going Cheap

it eats you up inside doesn't it that the EU recognizes Kosova's progress. its OK, you still have Julia Gorin to tell you how horrid Albanians are :)

Comm. Parrisson

yes...because Kosova really is like Afghanistan...

According to the article, the job cuts the EU mission is set to conduct "imply that it would be present in two regions in Kosovo, in the north and in Priština".

Good riddance. I wrote a comment about this move last week, but no one got to read it. June 14 is the last day, and I am glad the inept people(international&local staff) go back home.

Comm. Parrisson, it is nice to see you did not even read the article and the reason given by the EULEX spokesperson.

I thought serbs would be pleased to hear the good news ("occupiers leaving Kosovo") so they could come and "liberate our land".

Maybe tadic would come over here to 'make it rain' and throw wads of dinars around like its just paper --- wait, at 116 rsd/EUR it basically is just that.

Sincerely,

I am glad the inept people(international&local staff) go back home.
(Agim Kelmendi, 23 May 2012 22:18)
hey Agim, what about inept KiM Albanian jihadists? It is time to give Europeans a break of you!


yes...because Kosova really is like Afghanistan...
(Nikolle, 23 May 2012 21:28)
and dear Nikolle - yes it is - Mohhamedan bigots run riot and commiting genocide against minorities, destorying the cultural heritage of normal human civilizations( in KiM churches, in Afgh Buddha statues )...Allahu Akbar. Or I am wrong? ...and do not forget to thank me for keeping VSCG away from Kussova...

Progress in Kosovo?

A) EULEX is the last instrument that has any credibility in Kosovo, sic the Kosovo Ombudsman which ceased to be respected by anyone as impartial the moment the albanians took charge. Kosovo will be back to nothing.

B) Kosovo is like Afghanistan, a tribal country where blood feuds reign, the police are ignored because they can be bought and the locals seek protection and punishment from the local war lord. It is corrupt from top to bottom and is economically unsustainable without free funds from Europe and the gulf states. Europe and the US won't put up with this much longer.

Kosovo does have a bright future in exports: Albanians who can't bare to stay (like those who fled Hoxa). The party is over and no amount of dreaming is ever going to make it european. You did it to yourselves.

"Comm. Parrisson, it is nice to see you did not even read the article and the reason given by the EULEX spokesperson."
(Reader, 23 May 2012 22:55)

You mean the mentioned 'progress' Kosovo made? Well, the quarterly UN reports speak another language. Do you really believe there is a progress worth to mention when it comes to Kosovo? I don't see that, sorry. Of course EULEX won't admit that their mission was 'not so successful', that Kosovo is still full of mafia, corruption, organized crime, that crimes still get unpunished, that Kosovo is a places even alleged criminals from neighboring countries escape to, ...

"yes...because Kosova really is like Afghanistan..."
(Nikolle, 23 May 2012 21:28)

There are some similarities: Both countries depend on drug money and donations, have local clan structures that think they are above the law and which control certain regions, both have a weak government created by manipulated elections. Fortunately, the suicide bombers and attacks on KFOR troops don't exist in Kosovo (yet) - though there are some 'self determiners' who vandalize and destroy EULEX property, and there has been a Kosovo Albanian who killed several US soldiers in Germany.

it eats you up inside doesn't it that the EU recognizes Kosova's progress. its OK, you still have Julia Gorin to tell you how horrid Albanians are :)
(Nikolle, 23 May 2012 19:15)

No it’s called no more money. But a little insight into what will happen. The EU will progressively leave and as Kosovo falls into a chaotic mess, and it will as it does not have the resources to be self sustaining, they will ask Serbia on the quiet to take over.
That my little friend is what will happen, but if you see it any different please outline the business plan that will make Pristina a beacon of success in the Balkans – remember that money is everything in this world. If you don’t have it no one is going to sell their assets or work longer to pay for your life style.
But even further you can see the parallels with Iraq and Afghanistan where the west cut and ran or should I quote the US “mission accomplished” just before it ran out of Iraq to the safety of Kuwait.

@nikolle
"Progress Kosova has made"
You're kidding right? Kosovo is a blackhole my friend, in fact it makes me really sad, ironically, that these guys will be leaving as Serbs most definitely will be wiped out of KosovO. You'll probably hear more reports of old people being intimidated out of their hometown.. Yaay for progress!!

exKFOR

oh dear....i fear the bible has gone to your head and ruined what few brain cells you had :) i've always wondered actually, why didn't you become a conscientious objector? it would have spared you the feeling of having betrayed your Christian brothers. not to worry, you can come back for a glass of Skenderbeg anytime. its down to KFOR we have our state

Comm

deary me, i do not believe anyone with a rational head can possibly claim Albanians aren't prone to extrimism. lets see, Afghanistan is engulfed in a struggle agaisnt a millitary allience who the local populace do not want there. KFOR is not hated in Kosova. Kosova's laws have still to be approved by EULEX, so rreally we're only as much a state as the EU allows us, so if there is this drug money and clan structures (i have heard this for a while, sooey) then the EU is DIRECTLY involved in it.
as for K. Albanian who killed those two US service men, what do you want me to say? is that what albanian people are like now? in which case, you'd have seen Bondsteel attacked ages ago. no one can possibly guarantee that people wont be influenced by reading liturgy. the attempted shoe bomber Richard Reid was after all British (not of any Muslim extraction). thisw muslim extrimism argumnet has been put forward since before the war...nothing has happened so far. this doesnt mean to say that nothing will, but Albanians can see how much their 'muslim brothers' sympathise by continuing to back Serbia

i fear the bible has gone to your head and ruined what few brain cells you had :) i've always wondered actually, why didn't you become a conscientious objector? - I could not, I am a Crusader, and an animist and a cannibal..lol.

As a former cop I know what I am talking about - it is easier to tackle with the people of European, Hindu, Buddhist,Sikh, Zoroastrian backround - that is why Serbs are 1 mln times more humane and acceptable than Martian Illyrian jihadists with their backwarded islamo-fascist ideology. Don`t you agree, mam? since it seems you ve got some Christian blood in your veins, maybe things are not as bad as I expected?
Glass of Skandebeg - I basically do not consume alcohol, least brandy but thanx anyway...

it would have spared you the feeling of having betrayed your Christian brothers. not to worry, you can come back for a glass of Skenderbeg anytime. its down to KFOR we have our state
(Nikolle, 24 May 2012 10:44)

sj

you know, i am going to for a moment say yes its true, EULEX is scaling down due to lack of cash. now, do you think Serbia has the dosh to take over a hostile territory where the vast majority of those who here would rather take guns? i forget how rich you sometimes think the Empire of Heaven actually is.

also another contradiction, if the world is all about cash, how come Serbia wants Kosova, a land that is perpetually poor apparently?

SJ,
Good thing that after the EU and USA run out of money (which apparently is the most important thing in the world after all), Serbia will be there to step in and save the day for Kosovo...

Oh wait, what did I just read elsewhere on B92...?

"So far in 2012, Serbian currency was its highest level against the euro January 11 with the exchange rate at RSD 103.6922.

The dinar is 2.6 percent weaker compared to last month, and 15.7 percent down year-on-year.

On Monday, the indicative dinar-versus-dollar exchange rate was at RSD 89.8597, down 0.7 percent from the day before.

The dinar weakened against the U.S. dollar by 5.8 percent when compared to the level a month ago, and by 23.5 percent if compared to a year ago."

hmmmm... According to this, if the USA and EU are going broke, Serbia is going broke much faster. Imagine how quickly Serbia would implode without the continual inflow of dollars and Euros of international aid...! I hope you are not right that money is everything, or else Serbia is nothing. Yes, Kosovo has a bad economy, but it is at least brimming with young people and potential, and because it is so bad, it will probably only improve. Where will Serbia be 10 or 20 years from now?

you know, i am going to for a moment say yes its true, EULEX is scaling down due to lack of cash. now, do you think Serbia has the dosh to take over a hostile territory where the vast majority of those who here would rather take guns? i forget how rich you sometimes think the Empire of Heaven actually is.

also another contradiction, if the world is all about cash, how come Serbia wants Kosova, a land that is perpetually poor apparently?
(Nikolle, 24 May 2012 15:30)

When the EU is signing deals with the Chinese for more loans then they are in trouble. Let me say that no Serbia does not have the dosh as you call it as it is in a bad situation. How will Serbia deal with the Albanians you ask? Easy you don’t provide work and encourage resettlement elsewhere. That is how. But I’m still waiting on that business plan for Kosovo. Ill tell you what the plan is – sitting on their backsides and waiting for money from Brussels and telling people like you that there is “gold in them there hills of Kosovo” you just have to dig it out.

sj

you know what, let us even say that bit true, ALL Albanians will resettle elsewhere, every last one of them, the poverty of Kosova remains, because remember, according to you, it has ZERO value. so what exactly is the point for Serbia to take over a place that will result in nothing but financial loss after financial loss after financial loss. the world is all about money...right? you get rid of those Albanians, you still left having to feed those Serbs who dwell in Kosova, because they will be as poor as the Albanians. seriously, your logic (though I use the word logic ironically) is twisted

sj

i forgot to reply to your Serbia does not have the cash...so what exactly is the problem? if the EU (infinitely more powerful, more wealthy, much more appealing to the ordinary person) does not have the money to rule over Kosova then I needn't worry Serbia at all, becasue you see, if Kosova is one dollar too much for the EU, then it sure as is 0.00000000001 cent too much for Belgrade

Going Cheap

it eats you up inside doesn't it that the EU recognizes Kosova's progress. its OK, you still have Julia Gorin to tell you how horrid Albanians are :)

Less EULEX police? That's good news for Pristina (and all the criminals in Kosovo). Maybe the 'business' situation in Kosovo will further improve and Kosovo will not only be Europe's main drug hub, but achieve to reach that extremly honorable position on a worldwide level?

Joking aside, NATO forces will leave Afganistan, too. After years of trying in vain, people realize that it's impossible to establish some minimal structures of law and justice in those places.

because the Kosovo institutions made certain progress and the new reality has to be recognized".

That would be progress in burning down returnees houses and a continued free hand to do nothing about extremists to continue to target non-albanians who seek to cleanse the remaining few with the KPS as ever always turning up late and never finding anyone responsible.

There's a great future in Kosova selling bananas at some point in the future.

Comm. Parrisson

yes...because Kosova really is like Afghanistan...

According to the article, the job cuts the EU mission is set to conduct "imply that it would be present in two regions in Kosovo, in the north and in Priština".

Good riddance. I wrote a comment about this move last week, but no one got to read it. June 14 is the last day, and I am glad the inept people(international&local staff) go back home.

Comm. Parrisson, it is nice to see you did not even read the article and the reason given by the EULEX spokesperson.

"Comm. Parrisson, it is nice to see you did not even read the article and the reason given by the EULEX spokesperson."
(Reader, 23 May 2012 22:55)

You mean the mentioned 'progress' Kosovo made? Well, the quarterly UN reports speak another language. Do you really believe there is a progress worth to mention when it comes to Kosovo? I don't see that, sorry. Of course EULEX won't admit that their mission was 'not so successful', that Kosovo is still full of mafia, corruption, organized crime, that crimes still get unpunished, that Kosovo is a places even alleged criminals from neighboring countries escape to, ...

"yes...because Kosova really is like Afghanistan..."
(Nikolle, 23 May 2012 21:28)

There are some similarities: Both countries depend on drug money and donations, have local clan structures that think they are above the law and which control certain regions, both have a weak government created by manipulated elections. Fortunately, the suicide bombers and attacks on KFOR troops don't exist in Kosovo (yet) - though there are some 'self determiners' who vandalize and destroy EULEX property, and there has been a Kosovo Albanian who killed several US soldiers in Germany.

I am glad the inept people(international&local staff) go back home.
(Agim Kelmendi, 23 May 2012 22:18)
hey Agim, what about inept KiM Albanian jihadists? It is time to give Europeans a break of you!


yes...because Kosova really is like Afghanistan...
(Nikolle, 23 May 2012 21:28)
and dear Nikolle - yes it is - Mohhamedan bigots run riot and commiting genocide against minorities, destorying the cultural heritage of normal human civilizations( in KiM churches, in Afgh Buddha statues )...Allahu Akbar. Or I am wrong? ...and do not forget to thank me for keeping VSCG away from Kussova...

Comm

deary me, i do not believe anyone with a rational head can possibly claim Albanians aren't prone to extrimism. lets see, Afghanistan is engulfed in a struggle agaisnt a millitary allience who the local populace do not want there. KFOR is not hated in Kosova. Kosova's laws have still to be approved by EULEX, so rreally we're only as much a state as the EU allows us, so if there is this drug money and clan structures (i have heard this for a while, sooey) then the EU is DIRECTLY involved in it.
as for K. Albanian who killed those two US service men, what do you want me to say? is that what albanian people are like now? in which case, you'd have seen Bondsteel attacked ages ago. no one can possibly guarantee that people wont be influenced by reading liturgy. the attempted shoe bomber Richard Reid was after all British (not of any Muslim extraction). thisw muslim extrimism argumnet has been put forward since before the war...nothing has happened so far. this doesnt mean to say that nothing will, but Albanians can see how much their 'muslim brothers' sympathise by continuing to back Serbia

@nikolle
"Progress Kosova has made"
You're kidding right? Kosovo is a blackhole my friend, in fact it makes me really sad, ironically, that these guys will be leaving as Serbs most definitely will be wiped out of KosovO. You'll probably hear more reports of old people being intimidated out of their hometown.. Yaay for progress!!

Progress in Kosovo?

A) EULEX is the last instrument that has any credibility in Kosovo, sic the Kosovo Ombudsman which ceased to be respected by anyone as impartial the moment the albanians took charge. Kosovo will be back to nothing.

B) Kosovo is like Afghanistan, a tribal country where blood feuds reign, the police are ignored because they can be bought and the locals seek protection and punishment from the local war lord. It is corrupt from top to bottom and is economically unsustainable without free funds from Europe and the gulf states. Europe and the US won't put up with this much longer.

Kosovo does have a bright future in exports: Albanians who can't bare to stay (like those who fled Hoxa). The party is over and no amount of dreaming is ever going to make it european. You did it to yourselves.

exKFOR

oh dear....i fear the bible has gone to your head and ruined what few brain cells you had :) i've always wondered actually, why didn't you become a conscientious objector? it would have spared you the feeling of having betrayed your Christian brothers. not to worry, you can come back for a glass of Skenderbeg anytime. its down to KFOR we have our state

sj

you know, i am going to for a moment say yes its true, EULEX is scaling down due to lack of cash. now, do you think Serbia has the dosh to take over a hostile territory where the vast majority of those who here would rather take guns? i forget how rich you sometimes think the Empire of Heaven actually is.

also another contradiction, if the world is all about cash, how come Serbia wants Kosova, a land that is perpetually poor apparently?

you know, i am going to for a moment say yes its true, EULEX is scaling down due to lack of cash. now, do you think Serbia has the dosh to take over a hostile territory where the vast majority of those who here would rather take guns? i forget how rich you sometimes think the Empire of Heaven actually is.

also another contradiction, if the world is all about cash, how come Serbia wants Kosova, a land that is perpetually poor apparently?
(Nikolle, 24 May 2012 15:30)

When the EU is signing deals with the Chinese for more loans then they are in trouble. Let me say that no Serbia does not have the dosh as you call it as it is in a bad situation. How will Serbia deal with the Albanians you ask? Easy you don’t provide work and encourage resettlement elsewhere. That is how. But I’m still waiting on that business plan for Kosovo. Ill tell you what the plan is – sitting on their backsides and waiting for money from Brussels and telling people like you that there is “gold in them there hills of Kosovo” you just have to dig it out.

I thought serbs would be pleased to hear the good news ("occupiers leaving Kosovo") so they could come and "liberate our land".

Maybe tadic would come over here to 'make it rain' and throw wads of dinars around like its just paper --- wait, at 116 rsd/EUR it basically is just that.

Sincerely,

it eats you up inside doesn't it that the EU recognizes Kosova's progress. its OK, you still have Julia Gorin to tell you how horrid Albanians are :)
(Nikolle, 23 May 2012 19:15)

No it’s called no more money. But a little insight into what will happen. The EU will progressively leave and as Kosovo falls into a chaotic mess, and it will as it does not have the resources to be self sustaining, they will ask Serbia on the quiet to take over.
That my little friend is what will happen, but if you see it any different please outline the business plan that will make Pristina a beacon of success in the Balkans – remember that money is everything in this world. If you don’t have it no one is going to sell their assets or work longer to pay for your life style.
But even further you can see the parallels with Iraq and Afghanistan where the west cut and ran or should I quote the US “mission accomplished” just before it ran out of Iraq to the safety of Kuwait.

i fear the bible has gone to your head and ruined what few brain cells you had :) i've always wondered actually, why didn't you become a conscientious objector? - I could not, I am a Crusader, and an animist and a cannibal..lol.

As a former cop I know what I am talking about - it is easier to tackle with the people of European, Hindu, Buddhist,Sikh, Zoroastrian backround - that is why Serbs are 1 mln times more humane and acceptable than Martian Illyrian jihadists with their backwarded islamo-fascist ideology. Don`t you agree, mam? since it seems you ve got some Christian blood in your veins, maybe things are not as bad as I expected?
Glass of Skandebeg - I basically do not consume alcohol, least brandy but thanx anyway...

it would have spared you the feeling of having betrayed your Christian brothers. not to worry, you can come back for a glass of Skenderbeg anytime. its down to KFOR we have our state
(Nikolle, 24 May 2012 10:44)

SJ,
Good thing that after the EU and USA run out of money (which apparently is the most important thing in the world after all), Serbia will be there to step in and save the day for Kosovo...

Oh wait, what did I just read elsewhere on B92...?

"So far in 2012, Serbian currency was its highest level against the euro January 11 with the exchange rate at RSD 103.6922.

The dinar is 2.6 percent weaker compared to last month, and 15.7 percent down year-on-year.

On Monday, the indicative dinar-versus-dollar exchange rate was at RSD 89.8597, down 0.7 percent from the day before.

The dinar weakened against the U.S. dollar by 5.8 percent when compared to the level a month ago, and by 23.5 percent if compared to a year ago."

hmmmm... According to this, if the USA and EU are going broke, Serbia is going broke much faster. Imagine how quickly Serbia would implode without the continual inflow of dollars and Euros of international aid...! I hope you are not right that money is everything, or else Serbia is nothing. Yes, Kosovo has a bad economy, but it is at least brimming with young people and potential, and because it is so bad, it will probably only improve. Where will Serbia be 10 or 20 years from now?

sj

you know what, let us even say that bit true, ALL Albanians will resettle elsewhere, every last one of them, the poverty of Kosova remains, because remember, according to you, it has ZERO value. so what exactly is the point for Serbia to take over a place that will result in nothing but financial loss after financial loss after financial loss. the world is all about money...right? you get rid of those Albanians, you still left having to feed those Serbs who dwell in Kosova, because they will be as poor as the Albanians. seriously, your logic (though I use the word logic ironically) is twisted

sj

i forgot to reply to your Serbia does not have the cash...so what exactly is the problem? if the EU (infinitely more powerful, more wealthy, much more appealing to the ordinary person) does not have the money to rule over Kosova then I needn't worry Serbia at all, becasue you see, if Kosova is one dollar too much for the EU, then it sure as is 0.00000000001 cent too much for Belgrade