The mandate of EU judges in Kosovo’s Constitutional Court: complicated yet legal

Recently, Kosovo’s President Atifete Jahjaga came under fire after she extended the mandate of the three foreign judges sitting in the country’s constitutional court. “This act of the President, erroneously reported as the extension of the Judges’ mandate by the her sole initiative, is just another newcomer in some kind of a trend of labeling acts of the public institutions of Kosovo as unconstitutional. The President of Kosovo might have made several mistakes in the past, but signing the decree to extend the mandate of international judges in the Constitutional Court, was not one of them”, argues Donikë Qerimi.