In the news: Kosovo, North Macedonia, Albin Kurti and the specter of pan-Albanism. Kosovo's Vetëvendosje movement has already presented candidates in Albania and could do so in North Macedonia.

Talat Xhaferi, representative of the Albanian minority, will lead the technical government which must manage the country for one hundred days. 16 humanitarian workers accused of spying by the Greek authorities on the island of Lesvos have been acquitted. Lithium mining in the Jadar Valley in western Serbia is back on the agenda.