Corruption Scandal Rocks the EU Mission EULEX in Kosovo

The European Union’s €1bn flagship foreign mission to combat organized crime and corruption in Kosovo, known as EULEX, repeatedly shunned or dropped investigations of cases implicating senior Kosovan politicians, according to a new study of the mission’s six-year existence. EULEX was set up in late 2008, in the wake of Kosovo’s independence, to mentor and monitor its fledgling judicial system, but it has had extensive executive powers to investigate, prosecute and judge important cases involving war crimes, organized crime and corruption.