Brussels, 13 October 2026, dtt-net.com – The EU-written law on special war crimes court of Kosovo adopted by the Kosovan Parliament under pressure by European and American governments in 2015 has set up a what is called “Specialist Chambers of Constitutional Court”, which in case of complaint by sentenced former Kosovo guerilla leaders of their right being breached is the sole body to treat them, and not the Constitutional Court in Prishtina. The expert of Kosovo of Kosovo’s Constitutional Enver Hasani has raised questions over the power delegated to the body, which in other terms replaces the top court in Prishtina on the cases at trial in The Hague, although under the umbrella of Kosovo’s Constitution.
EU Commission’s spokesperson Christian Wigand had no answer at all, or for that matter a legal explanation either, when asked by dtt-net.com of the reason of creating it amid competences of the court removed from the one in Prishtina and delegated to the body in The Hague, withing the specialist Chambers.
“I would have to limit myself to kind of what I can say, let’s say, as regards our political position on the Kosovo Special Chambers, and we’re happy to look, if you reach out to our team a little bit more on background, if there’s anything more we could say on the legal aspects that you’re raising,” Wigand said.
Wigand was asked for a legal explanation of a similar body proposed by the EU to the Kosovo government in October 2023 in the status for formation of what is named “Association of Serb-majority municipalities-ASM” and named “Arbitration Commission”.
A such commission, if ever formed, would treat all disputes between Kosovo government and ASM autonomous body, in a manner that if both sides would fail to reach a compromise than the EU would appoint one representative who would take a decision. In a normal situation, when parties, existing institutions, any legal entities, or municipalities, would have any dispute or contest on anything they take the matter to the Constitutional Court as a final body to rule and take e decision.
But Wigans had not answer on the second either, with similar role and competences as the one withing the Specialist Chamber in The Hague, and only repeated the political position of the EC related to the court financed by the EU and its member states.
He went further reiterating EC’s discontent to the changes to the law by Kosovan parliament which on the demand of the opposition seeks deployment of an eventual retrial to the courts I capital Prishtina.
“… the law adopted by the Kosovo Assembly amending and supplementing the law goes against Kosovo’s international obligations towards the EU. So this is where we stand and this is, I think, what I can share here, and happy to look a bit more into detail and see if we can give you any more background,” Wigans added, still refi-using which part of the changes made are in breach of obligations Kosovo has toward the European bloc.
Thaçi was sentenced to 25 years on September 16, Krasniqi too, Veseli to 18, and Selimi 13, on “individual responsibility” of “criminal enterprise” but the indictments by the prosecution did not include human harvesting allegations by Marty, however.
Formation of the court was triggered by a report of the Swiss politician, Dick Marty, adopted in 2011 by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
Marty said in its report that Thaçi, Krasniqi, Veseli, and Selimi, engaged in human organ harvesting of Serb and Albanian civilians during and after the 1998-1999 war, which according to the judges were part of a “criminal enterprise”, which the four deny.
