New government in Kosovo faces multiple challenges

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Following Sunday's parliamentary election, a coalition government will now have to be formed as Kosovo looks to normalise ties with Serbia while foreign funding remains in question.

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00:00Kosovo's Prime Minister Albin Kurdi's left-wing party won most seats in this weekend's parliamentary

00:07election.

00:08But his new term will face multiple challenges, including the revival of talks on normalizing

00:14relations with Serbia, a key issue in repairing ties with the EU and U.S.

00:20Trump administration, they did not still make any statement about the dialogue, whether

00:24they want to engage or not, or to support it or not.

00:27And the EU has led the process in a way which was not at all convincing, let's say, to

00:33the parties.

00:34No Belgrade, no Pristina ever believes that EU is firm, that it will provide any stick

00:41or carrot to incentivize parties to engage constructively in dialogue.

00:48Kurdi is also under pressure to increase public salaries and pensions, improve education and

00:53health services, and fight poverty.

00:56Left without a majority in the House, Kurdi's party will have to look for an ally to form

01:00the next government.

01:01The lack of a clear majority in Pristina and the divisions among the United States and

01:07the European Union on how to deal with the tension in the Western Balkans seems to create

01:14very difficult perspective when it comes to reestablish a dialogue between Pristina, Belgrade

01:22and the Serbian community of Kosovo.

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