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The Peace Agreement of 23 February makes Kosovo “a

Talks in Paris, terror in Kosovo

The Peace Agreement of 23 February makes Kosovo “a state within a state,” the representatives of the Serbian side, led by Ratko Markoviç, reportedly declared. state within a state,” the representatives of the Serbian side, led by Ratko Markoviç, reportedly declared. What state are the Serbs talking about? In the Yugoslav Federation, now dissolved, the state did not present itself as the representative of the public order of the society over which it ruled. It was seen as an Empire, that is, as something foreign—not only in the ethnic sense. And a foreign state is founded on a foreign logic. Universal, abstract demands, such as political obligations or civic duties, were seen by Yugoslav leaders as deceptive claims of plunder and violation by a band of powerful robbers who called themselves the state. Today’s Serbian leaders forget that the peoples joined the Federation not to be enslaved, but to protect their own freedom. Yet freedom, as is known, was distributed unequally and cannot be a general condition. The Serbs tried to misuse the freedom of other peoples, treating it as a commodity, but forgot that it is a commodity that cannot be exchanged, renounced, or seized by force.

Pyramid-scheme protests return to the city of Vlorë VLORË: Protests over pyramid schemes have returned to Vlorë. The city where protests for the return of the money, which plunged an entire state into chaos, began has once again awoken. At the meeting, Arapi stated that the MPs themselves are involved in the pyramid schemes, and therefore do not approve the law on publishing the names of those who have benefited from the assets of the borrowing companies. According to chief administrator Arapi, approval of this law will open the door to the seizure of the assets of all those people who benefited from the pyramid companies after the law establishing administrators came into force. VLORË: Protests over pyramid schemes have returned to Vlorë. The city where protests for the return of the money—which plunged an entire state into chaos—began has once again awoken. A meeting held between creditors from Vlorë and the chairman of the Pyramid Schemes Oversight Group, Farudin Arapi, ended with the creditors’ irritation and calls—

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Today, at 11:00, at Hotel Dajti, the United Right has invited all parliamentary parties to a roundtable discussion on the death penalty. The presence of a representative of the Council of Europe has also been confirmed.