“We call on Kosovo to abide by its international obligations to guarantee the judicial independence of the Kosovo Specialist Chambers, as well as its commitment to ensuring accountability and delivering justice to victims and their families from all communities in Kosovo,” an EU spokesperson told Radio Free Europe.

The law was approved late on Tuesday, shortly before parliament elected Justina Shiroka Pula as Kosovo’s new president, a move welcomed by Brussels.

The EU said the Chambers’ current mandate and independence must be fully respected, stressing that the court delivers justice based on individual criminal responsibility.

Brussels also welcomed an end to the institutional deadlock that had gripped Kosovo since 2025, saying renewed stability should allow the country to advance on its European path.

The EU said Kosovo must also press ahead with reforms linked to its Growth and Reform Facility, implementation of the Stabilisation and Association Agreement, regional cooperation and gradual integration into the EU Single Market.

The amendments, initiated by the opposition Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK), were approved in second reading before parliament elected Shiroka Pula in the early hours of Oct. 7.

The Specialist Chambers are based in The Hague but form part of Kosovo’s judicial system. They were established under a 2014 exchange of letters between then-President Atifete Jahjaga and former EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton and have received nearly 400 million euros in EU funding.

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As for our position for the first time, at least over the last ten years, opposing a statement issued by the European Union’s foreign policy, this position has to do with the fact that the EU statement  is a statement, which does not in itself have a problem, as it addresses everything already said before by the High Representative Joseph Borrell regarding Kosovo’s obligations to the dialogue, but there is a big problem that does not correspond to the reality of the last days , and as such we find it impossible to align with the European Union unless a second statement is issued, addressing the concern of the last few days, the tragedy where a police officer of the Republic of Kosovo was killed by a criminal gang that was clearly invested in exercising terror in northern Kosovo, which was followed by the decision to declare a national day of mourning in Belgrade.

For us, this is unacceptable, unwarranted, it is even reprehensible, because it is not European and at the same time it is the worst signal that Serbia could send at this moment to the entire region and Europe, and we have requested that the European Union, the entire Euro-Atlantic community should sound the alarm at the highest level, the democratic alarm at the highest level and use all available means to respond accordingly to this completely unacceptable message that comes from the declaration of national mourning in Belgrade and as long as there is not a second statement from the European Union to deliver a fair judgment on the last days, we will not align with the initial statement.

Once the second statement is released and if the second statement sends across what we ask for, then we have no problem aligning with the first statement because regardless of what Serbia does, which is what we have to do with Serbia, we do not budge an inch from all the requirements of the European Union and the Euro-Atlantic community for Kosovo, and at this point we are 100% aligned with the European Union and the Euro-Atlantic community, but I repeat, this is the moment to condemn out loud what happened in the north of Kosovo and what then ensued in Belgrade with the decision to declare three days of national mourning that glorifies the commitment of a criminal gang to cause terror in the north of Kosovo.

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