Serbia – Peter Geoghegan

Serbs still find it hard living in Kosov

By peterPosted on 7th January 2014Posted in Balkans, Deutsche WelleTagged Mitrovica, north Kosovo, Serbia

Mitrovica is a Kosovan city divided in two: Serbs live in the north, Albanians in the south. It’s the flashpoint for Serb reluctance to be living in a Kosovan state. Back in the days of socialist Yugoslavia, Mitrovica was a rather prosperous city. On the outskirts of town, the vast Trepeca mines were one of […]

Kosovo Goes it Alone

By peterPosted on 26th October 2012Posted in Politics, Sunday Business PostTagged Mitrovica, north Kosovo, Serbia1 Comment

Mother Teresa Boulevard is a street pregnant with symbolism. At one end of the wide, pedestrianized thoroughfare that runs through the centre of Pristina, an imposing statue of Albanian hero Skanderbeg stands in the shadow of Kosovo’s parliament building. A couple of hundred metres south sits the Communist-era Grand Hotel. When war broke out in […]