OSCE Broadcast 8 April
• Jacobson: Tribunal would increase Kosovo’s credibility (Most monitored broadcasters, RTK1&KTV)
• Mustafa: Assembly should vote in favour of Tribunal’s establishment (Most monitored broadcasters, KTV)
• Petrovic: Cosmetic changes in the electoral reform (RTK2)
• Students call PM Thaçi “thief and cheater” (All monitored broadcasters, KTV)
• Ambassador Jacobson met Roma community members (All monitored broadcasters, KTV)
• Verdict in abusing official position case (KTV)
Belgrade Daily Media Highlights 8 April
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• What was implemented in the agreement with Pristina in one year (Novosti)
• New Serbian Constitution according to Brussels’ tailoring (Novosti)
• To be a Serb in the province of Kosovo-Metohija (Politika)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• OHR: Entities must refrain from unilateral moves (Fena)
• Cvijanovic: Russian loan more favorable than IMF loan (Politika)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Serbia’s Vucic May Take Office by April 25 Focusing on Economy (Bloomberg)
• Serbia lacks reform on the way to the EU (DW.DE)
• Serbia Re-Starts Examination of Suspected Kosovo Mass Grave (BIRN)
• Bosnia’s economy set to grow 2.4 pct in 2014-c.bank governor (Reuters)
• Macedonia Election Race Starts on Harsh Note (BIRN)
• Montenegro Albanians Demand Own Municipality (BIRN)
Blomeyer: Parliament to adopt Court and EULEX mandate (RTK)
In an interview for RTK, German Ambassador to Kosovo, Peter Blomeyer, said Kosovo and the European Union are holding negotiations for the establishment of the war crimes court. Blomeyer said Kosovo’s readiness to establish the court would show that the country does not fear investigations into war crimes allegations. Asked to comment on upcoming parliamentary […]
Read More →A state for votes or votes for the state? (Kosova Sot)
The paper’s front-page editorial notes that it is obvious that the Prime Minister’s frequent meetings and visits are aimed at securing as much votes as possible for the upcoming parliamentary elections. “The prime minister is conducting an offensive campaign by using state resources and by threatening the integrity of independent institutions. However, the time that […]
Read More →Pristina ignores Brussels agreement (Vecernje Novosti)
Novosti investigates: What was applied for one year from the agreement with Pristina? Barriers around the community of Serbian municipalities, integration of civilian protection and the judges is going slow. It can be said, on the eve of the anniversary of the initialling of the “historic agreement” between Belgrade and Pristina in Brussels, that only […]
Read More →Serbs will vote and without Kosovo documents (Politika)
Draft Law on General Elections which abolishes the right to vote to Serbs who are on the election tickets but don’t live in Kosovo and probably don’t poses Kosovo documents, will be amended. Serbs who don’t have Kosovo documents will most probably be allowed to vote on Kosovo general elections, learned Belgrade-based Politika. “In the […]
Read More →Crime with the university (Tribuna)
Vjosa Osmani-Sadriu, member of the LDK chairmanship and head of the parliamentary committee for European integration, argues that “university education is one of the most devastated and misused sectors by the PDK government. In unprecedented fashion, Thaci’s government manipulated with students and higher education in general, always seeing them as numbers and votes and never […]
Read More →Serbia Re-Starts Examination of Suspected Kosovo Mass Grave (Balkan Insight)
Serbian authorities re-started the examination of a suspected mass grave near the town of Raska where it is believed ethnic Albanians killed by Serbian forces in the Kosovo war may be buried. Edona Peci BIRN Pristina “Today all conditions have been created for the examination to continue,” said Pajazit Nushi, head of the Kosovo delegation […]
Read More →Kosovo customs officers in the north without EULEX escort (Radio Kosova)
Transfer of Kosovo customs officers in the border points in north of Kosovo is not done any more from EULEX since last November. This is done already with transport vehicles of Kosovo customs; this is confirmed from general director of Kosovo customs, Lulzim Rafuna. He evaluates that the issue of transport of Kosovo customs officers […]
Read More →Posselt: We will try to remove visas for Kosovo this year (RTK)
“Although there is a blockade by some EU member states, together with some members of the European Parliament, we are working and trying to remove visas for Kosovo this year,” Bernd Posselt, member of the European Parliament’s foreign policy committee and member of the delegation for Albania, Kosovo, Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina, said […]
Read More →Haradinaj: Thaci removed Kosovo from radar of investors (Indeksonline)
Ramush Haradinaj, leader of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK), blamed the current government for Kosovo’s economic setback. During a meeting with the German Chamber of Commerce in Kosovo, Haradinaj said investors have fled Kosovo during the tenure of this government. “The lack of foreign investors, especially from the Albanian diaspora, has resulted […]
Read More →Jacobson: Priority, education of Roma children (Telegrafi)
On International Roma Day, U.S. Ambassador to Kosovo, Tracey Ann Jacobson visited an education center in Gracanica municipality. Jacobson met with members of the Roma community and expressed hers and the U.S. government’s readiness to assist this community especially in the area of education. “I would like to thank the first Roma mayor in this […]
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