{"id":148854,"date":"2026-08-19T18:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T18:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/148854\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T18:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T18:12:11","slug":"ibar-bridge-poll-79-percent-say-no-brussels-softens-tone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/148854\/","title":{"rendered":"Ibar Bridge Poll: 79 Percent Say No, Brussels Softens Tone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly four out of five people who took part in a poll run by the outlet KoSSev on social media said they oppose opening the main Ibar bridge in Kosovska Mitrovica to vehicle traffic. The poll ran for 24 hours and was published on August 19, the same day Brussels sent a new, more carefully worded answer on who actually decides where KFOR is deployed on the bridge.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 627 votes collected across Instagram, Facebook and X, 496, or about 79 percent, were against opening the bridge to motor vehicles. Seventy five participants, around 12 percent, supported opening it, while 56, or nine percent, had no opinion. The bridge is currently open to pedestrians but not to vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>How the vote broke down by platform<\/p>\n<p>Instagram stories generated the most responses, 479 in total: 386, or 81 percent, were against, 51, or 11 percent, were in favor, and 42 participants, eight percent, said they had no stance. On Facebook, 81 percent of the 98 votes, or 79 people, were against, nine were in favor, and ten had no opinion. Turnout was lowest on X, with 50 votes: 31 people, 62 percent, were against, 15, or 30 percent, were in favor, and four had no stance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nearly four out of five people who took part in a poll run by the outlet KoSSev on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[104],"tags":[211,210,73,70087,70085,70086],"class_list":["post-148854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brussels","tag-belgium","tag-brussels","tag-european-union","tag-ibar-bridge","tag-kfor","tag-kosovska-mitrovica"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/117123530665194994","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}