Patriarch urges Serbs to remain in Kosovo (B92)
Serbian Orthodox Patriarch Irinej has called for peace, forgiveness and love in his Christmas message, and urged Serbs in Kosovo to remain there. “This Christmas as well, we stand with our brothers and sisters in Kosovo and Metohija, and we tell them to stay in Kosovo with their holy places,” said the patriarch in a […]
Read More →Petition for raped women – still no reply from UN (Zeri)
The United Nations (UN) has not responded yet to the petition that requests UN to prepare a report on women raped in Kosovo during the conflict in 1999, writes Zeri. The ‘Justice for raped women’ initiative collected 115.000 signatures in July 2014. The former Deputy Prime Minister of Kosovo, Edita Tahiri, who launched the petition, said […]
Read More →Kosovo: EU justice efforts shadowed by controversy (Turkish Weekly)
Kosovo agreed to support a new European-backed special court to try top war crimes suspects despite dissent from ex-guerrillas, while the EU rule-of-law mission was hit by corruption claims. Under pressure from the European Union, Kosovo MPs voted in April 2014 to ratify a deal with Brussels to set up a new special court that […]
Read More →Vetevendosje will vote against special court (Zeri)
The Vetevendosje Movement will vote against the formation of the special court that will address war crimes allegations in Kosovo. Rexhep Selimi, a Vetevendosje MP and one of the commanders of the former Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), told Zeri about the reasons why 16 Vetevendosje MPs will vote against the court. “We are consistent in […]
Read More →“The fight” for LDK leader’s post! (Gazeta Blic)
Lutfi Haziri, member of the chairmanship of the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) and Mayor of Gjilan, is one of the top candidates for the post of LDK leader, according to a high-ranking source within the LDK. The same source said that LDK leader and Kosovo Prime Minister, Isa Mustafa, will most probably run again […]
Read More →Kada-Bujupi: Kosovo Assembly’s break, absurd (Gazeta Blic)
Head of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK) parliamentary group, Donika Kada-Bujupi said the decision of the Kosovo Assembly to go on a winter break until 20 January is unacceptable. She said it is absurd for the MPs to go on holidays at the most challenging period for Kosovo. “At the beginning of […]
Read More →Miscevic: Dialogue continuation brings opening of Chapter 35 (Blic, Tanjug)
Tanja Miscevic, head of Serbia’s negotiating team with the EU, said that she expects that Chapter 35 on Kosovo will be opened shortly after the continuation of the dialogue on the normalization of relations between Belgrade and Pristina. After one or two rounds of the dialogue on normalization of the relations with Pristina, which will […]
Read More →Joksimovic: Brussels Agreement is the best possible solution (Blic)
“Brussels Agreement reflects the reality which is: the EU understood and accepted the fact that Serbia has not recognized Kosovo’s independence, as well that we have to accept the fact that many states have recognized it,” said Jadranka Joksimovic, Minister for European Integration of Serbia. She said that the Brussels Agreement was the best possible […]
Read More →North of Kosovo as Republika Srpska (RTK2)
Last month, Serbian President Tomislav Nikolić managed to dramatize the issue of Kosovo recognition and then to announce that he has a plan for the final solution, says analyst Dusan Janjic. “According to announced plan, solution is actually one streamlined option of Association/ Community of Serbian municipalities, which would have a high degree of competences […]
Read More →EU accession “depends on Serbia’s progress” (Vecernje Novosti, B92)
Opening of first chapters in EU accession negotiations with Serbia is the first goal, but the success and speed of the process will depend on Serbia’s progress. This is according to Latvian FM Edgars Rinkevics, who currently chairs the EU Council of Ministers as Latvia on January 1 took over EU’s rotating six months […]
Read More →Forgotten reforms of the coalition (Kosova Sot)
Kosova Sot front page editorial writes that the major parties of the current coalition, the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK,) and the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK,) agreed in 2011 on the changes of the election law and changes of the Constitution of Kosovo, including the election of the President. However, these pledges remained only […]
Read More →EU should remove visas for Kosovars (Koha Ditore)
Augustin Palokaj, Koha Ditore’s Brussels based correspondent, considers that despite the fact that the European Union is not currently willing to remove visas for Kosovo and it even considers returning of visas for some countries, emigration of many Kosovars towards the EU should not be used as a reason not to liberalize visas. It is […]
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