As Europeans take to their balconies to cheer on health workers every evening, Kosovars have joined the chorus for a different reason: to protest a political debacle threatening to bring down the government in the middle of the coronavirus crisis.
Unable to gather en masse on the streets, Pristina residents have been banging pots and pans from their terraces to express anger at politicians accused of exploiting the health emergency for personal gain.
"I could not imagine such misfortune in my worst dreams," 30-year-old economist Azra Marmullaku, who has been joining the nightly noise-making, told AFP by phone.
Kosovo has "very modest resources to cope with a pandemic that has brought world powers to their feet," she lamented.
"And now, instead of mobilising all of our potential in the fight for survival, we are wasting our time and energy with a power struggle.
"What a shame!"
"The initiative to declare a state of emergency is the main evidence for this."