Summary of the Week 35

Months of cheering and hope evaporated for many in just one night. An election night. Whose expectations were realistic, who doesn't want a repeat, and whose post-election strategy will be more successful? From this compilation, it seems that these questions will spill over into the coming months, and onto the whole world.

On this week's program, like in a movie: American elections, a Hollywood scenario, great expectations, and in the end, everyone is truly the President’s people.

"This was clearly yet another issue that divided the region," says Marko Miskeljin, a collaborator at the Center for Social Stability, to Kosovo Online.

"When it comes to Pristina, a clear choice was made. Pristina put all its cards on Kamala Harris’s victory." For many, therefore, waking up after the longest American night was not as they planned. Still, there was no shortage of celebrations. Others had to shift gears.

Political analyst Nexhmedin Spahiu believes there's no time for disappointment and re-evaluation. He says, "Both sides will be pressured to reach an agreement."

Pressure was already on the agenda. A new ace is needed to achieve results. Does Trump have one?

Ivan Trifunovic from the Pupin Initiative explains:

"Trump is a politician who, sometimes perhaps in a crude way, always calls things by their real names."

Finding the right name for what's on the agenda is often not easy. However, there are those who offer an answer. Minister Krasniqi once again encountered discontented citizens in the north. He says it doesn’t bother him.

"This is democracy. Just as it is our right to come here and open facilities, it is their right to protest," Minister Elbert Krasniqi explained to Kosovo Online, sharing his view of Kosovo’s democracy.

Everyone protests mostly because of injustice. Some due to high-level politics, and some, very vocally, due to local plans and programs. In recent months, reasons for protest can even be found outside every store.

Citizens, for instance, are dissatisfied with the goods from Serbia. They say that Pristina’s decision to allow imports via Merdare hasn't changed anything.

“There are these goods, but they’re no good. They’re not worth anything. What’s the point if we don’t have what we need?” says a local from Strpce.

We speak up so that it won’t be forgotten. This is the essence of remembering wartime days and holiday speeches, which are on the agenda from tomorrow.

Historian Milos Vojinovic explains:

"If we talk about the ordinary person in Kosovo at the end of World War I, the key facts of his life were, unfortunately, the absence of personal security, much like today."

Reruns are the daily routine to which we have grown accustomed. In rare exceptions, we happily return to what we’ve learned, read, watched, like Andric and his works. Hence, the applause and ovations for every performance of "The Bridge" across Kosovo.