Last Friday, the Kosovo Parliament passed legislation officially ending supervised independence. Members of the International Steering Group on Monday declared Kosovo fully independent. Even with the end of supervised independence, the Kosovo parliament officially approved the extension of the mandate of EULEX through 2014 and the Deputy KFOR commander stated that NATO troops would remain in Kosovo for another 5-7 years.
With the end of supervised independence, many have been asking "what's next" or "what does it mean" and perhaps most importantly, Is Kosovo ready and what are the remaining challenges?
In other news, Serbian war crimes prosecutors say that they have a witness to the alleged organ trafficking by the KLA. In an interview on Serbian TV on Monday, the witness described removing the heart of a Serbian captive and how he was trained in organ harvesting.
