Belgrade Media Report 6 November
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Valls: Belgrade’s key role in resolving the Ukrainian crisis (Politika)
• Serbian MPs outraged that there is no justice for Serb victims (Politika)
• Kosovo represented in Berlin without coat of arms (Novosti)
• Benedict: Serbia committed to negotiating process (Tanjug)
• Serbia and entire Balkans important for France (Radio Serbia)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• Lagumdzija in Berlin: The initiative of the United Kingdom and Germany a chance for B&H’s new beginning (Oslobodjenje)
• Umihanic resigned as prime minister of Tuzla Canton (Oslobodjenje)
• Meeting of SDA and SNSD in Sarajevo (Fena)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• EU’s biggest foreign mission in turmoil over corruption row (The Guardian)
• Serbian PM discusses models of gas debt repayment with Putin (Reuters)
• Serbia Denies Monitoring Separatist Ukraine Polls (BIRN)
• Vojislav Seselj, on Trial for War Crimes, Is Offered Temporary Release (The New York Times)
Tahiri in Brussels for agreement on energy and vehicle insurance (Koha)
Kosovo Deputy Prime Minister, Edita Tahiri, was in Brussels on 4 and 5 November where she took part in meetings with Serbian side, facilitated by EU, and discussed issued on energy and vehicle insurance. The parties formed working groups which are tasked in ensuring full implementation of agreement on energy. The delegations also spoke about […]
Read More →When there is no solution, there are elections (Kosova Sot)
The front page of this editorial stresses that the winning party of the 8 June elections has given signals of mobilization for elections, due to the lack of finding a partner at the Assembly to create institutions, even five months after the elections. The coalition block on the other hand, does not give a solution […]
Read More →Mustafa: Whoever wants to go to elections, can do so (Telegrafi)
Leader of Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), Isa Mustafa, took to Facebook to comment on yesterday’s statement of Hashim Thaci, leader of Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) about new elections saying that there is no need for Kosovo to head to elections because it has a parliamentary majority. Mustafa said the PDK has only 36 […]
Read More →US Ambassador to party leaders: “Don’t screw this up” (Gazeta Express)
The American Ambassador in Pristina, Tracey Ann Jacobson, had a message for party leaders, in a meeting with them. In Albanian, she told them not to screw up. “My message to the politicians has been clear. In fact I can even say it in Albanian: Mos e dhij punën.” Ambassador Jacobson was speaking at the […]
Read More →Ahmeti: Vetevendosje did not announce protests (RTKlive)
Mayor of Pristina Municipality, Shpend Ahmeti, says that Vetevendosje did not announce protests, but according to him, this deadlock demands civic reaction. Furthermore he said that they requested also form LAN to be supports, but Vetevendosje will not organize protests alone. Ahmeti said that he is optimistic in the establishment of institutions while parliamentary majority […]
Read More →Vekarić: Necessary to establish the team for cooperation with the Court for the KLA crimes (Danas)
Who is responsible for the fact that even after 15 years there are no results in the prosecution of those responsible for crimes against the Serbs and members of other national communities in Kosovo, including Albanians who are not supporting the KLA? This is a question to which the Committee for Kosovo and Metohija of […]
Read More →Maria Bamieh: ‘I learned to adapt and survive’ (The Guardian)
Suspended Eulex prosecutor has emerged as a folk hero to many ordinary Kosovans Julian Borger The Guardian, Wednesday 5 November 2014 18.35 GMT As soon as Maria Bamieh decided to go to the press with allegations of corruption and cover-up, officials from the EU’s rule of law mission began briefing aggressively against her, depicting her […]
Read More →Jevtic: Limited freedom of movement for Kosovo Serbs (Tanjug)
During his meetings in the course of an official visit to the US State Department, Minster for Communities and Return in the Kosovo government, Dalibor Jevtic, said that there are still places in Kosovo where Serbs can’t move freely and visit their usurped property, communicated Ministry of Communities and Return. “Institutions responsible for security issues […]
Read More →EULEX persistently ignoring the case of family Jovanovic (Vesti)
Family Jovanovic from village Preoce in Gračanica/Graçanica Municipality has sent more than 50 letters so far to different addresses of the EU mission in Kosovo, including the Head of EULEX, where they presented their suspicion on corruption since their property case has been dragged by courts for more than six years now. “Behavior of EULEX, […]
Read More →Pristina requests a limited dialogue (Vecernje Novosti)
Provisional institutions in Kosovo and Metohija are preparing new requests ahead of continuation of dialogue. Their intention is to establish a diplomatic relations with Serbia in next four years. Continuation of the dialogue is not at sight, however Pristina has open its cards already – requests signing of a binding legal document and establishment of […]
Read More →EULEX at the crossroad (Danas, Op. Ed.)
Will the EU mission in Kosovo ‘sink’ due to allegations on corruption within the EULEX? As stated, in EULEX affair are involved a former boss, one former and several current prosecutors and one judge of this mission, Pristina, Sarajevo and Belgrade media, including the Brussels. Three influential members of the European Parliament (when it comes […]
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