'Fed Up': Dinar Currency Ban Bites In Kosovo

A clothing store Gracanica, central Kosovo, where a ban on the Serbian dinar has spurred frustration and anger (Credit: AFP)

In the central Kosovo town of Gracanica, posters advertising "10 euro return tickets" to Serbia flutter on the walls as ethnic Serbs wearily organise trips across the border to collect their pensions.

Since Kosovo banned the Serbian dinar in February, the parallel system -- health and social services in Kosovo funded by Serbia -- has suffered, leaving ethnic Serbs in Kosovo without wages or pensions, as well as underfunded hospitals and schools.