Opposition lawmakers in Kosovo released teargas in parliament today, the second such incident in a week in protest at a European Union-brokered accord with former master Serbia.

The opposition is angry over a deal to grant ethnic Serb areas of Kosovo greater local powers and the possibility of funding from Belgrade, saying it represents a threat to the independence Kosovo declared from Serbia with Western backing in 2008.

A bloc of opposition parties says it will disrupt the work of parliament until the deal and another demarcation of Kosovo's border with Montenegro are rescinded.