Kosovo is launching a controversial census of its population, thirteen years after a first consultation, boycotted at the time by the Serbian community. High birth rates and migratory movements complicate population counting.
Relations between Serbs and Albanians have been going through a particularly tense period since Pristina tried to prohibit the use of the Serbian currency, the dinar. The main Serbian political party in Kosovo called for a boycott. “The Serbian population will not participate in the upcoming false census,” we read in a statement on social networks.