Members of the Kosovo-Albanian Movement for Self-Determination (Vetevendosja) damaged about 20 cars of the UN Mission in Kosovo in front of the UN HQ in Prishtina yesterday (cf. Der Standard, 21.4.2006). Since 2004, the Vetevendosja-movement, lead by activist Albin Kurti, co-founder of the NGO Kosovo Action Network, has been demanding the departure of the UN and independence without status negotiations.

Will the UN soon be replaced by the EU in Kosovo? On 10 April 2006, the EU foreign ministers decided to establish an EU expert Planning Team to design the future involvement of the EU in Kosovo after the end of the status talks (which will mean the end of the mandate of the UN Mission in Kosovo). The EU plans to take over crisis management tasks in the field of policing and rule of law. The EU's mission in Kosovo could become the EU's biggest civilian and security mission (cf. EU Observer, 11.4.2006).