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Márton Nikowitz-Holló

Márton Nikowitz-Holló

Hungarian diplomat and Senior Research Fellow at the Hungarian Institute of International Affairs (HIIA), formerly posted at the Embassy of Hungary in Pristina, Kosovo (2020–2025).

Sep 21, 2026

21:07
Take us there.
21:08
You have to know some backgrounds before.
21:12
So in, uh, uh, 2023, the Serbs have been boycotting the elections of, uh, the, uh, mayors in the, in the north of Kosovo.
21:24
And, uh, there have been an, uh, incident, uh, before in May, in the same year, uh, in Zvecan, where, uh, Serbs had, um, huge clash with, uh, K4 soldiers.
21:37
And that time many soldiers, even Hungarians, have been seriously injured because the Serbian, uh, mayors wanted to get to the municipality buildings, and the, uh, Serbian protesters wanted to stop them to do this, and there have been clashes and, and so on.
21:55
It was a time with very high tensions.

5 MINS LATER

27:21
How are the Serbs in Kosovo connected to Serbia proper? Uh, what is-- Well, how do institutions function? Uh, the healthcare, education, you mentioned retirement money and these basic, uh, living standard, uh, things.

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