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Belgrade Media Rerort 12 February 2015

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STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS

• Vucic: We got the most with Brussels negotiations (RTS/B92)
• Government adopts report on Brussels dialogue (Tanjug)
• Selakovic: Perspective for Kosovo Serbs (RTS)
• Djuric: President of the Basic Court will always be a Serb (Politika)
• A film about the only Serb child in Prizren, Kosovo (Tanjug)

STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS

• Draft statement receives unanimous support (Srna)
• Dodik: Parliament showed unity (Srna)
• Ambassador Cormack opens workshop on fight against terrorism (Oslobodjenje)
• After several denials, Zaev admitted that he collaborated with Verushevski (Kurir.mk/24 News)
• What is Ahmeti’s crime in the conversation published by Zaev? (Kurir.mk)

RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES

• Serbia, Hungary demand help from EU to stem migrant ‘exodus’ from Kosovo (Euronews)
• Serbia Border Crisis: Hungary Flooded With Migrants, Latest European Nation To Battle Migration Problem (IBTimes.com)
• Croatian volunteers fighting alongside Ukrainian army; Serb counterparts helping pro-Russian rebels (AFP)
• Bosnia’s new PM takes office, pledges EU-backed reforms (Reuters)

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Vucic on immigrants from Kosovo: Let Brussels decide what it wants from Serbia (Blic)

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Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said today that Serbia will do everything it takes in connection to waves of immigrants from Kosovo, when he receives from Brussels a clear position on this issue – to stop freedom of movement or not. That was also discussed during a visit to Brussels, he said. – I told […]

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Perhaps institutions are involved themselves?! (Koha Ditore)

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KTV’s editor-in-chief Adriatik Kelmendi writes that in the current situation in Kosovo where thousands are deciding to board buses in search of a better life in the EU, there is a well-organised criminal group which is surprisingly managing to easily convince people that they have to seize the opportunity right now to cross through the […]

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Kosovo Assembly session without MPs from the Serbian List (KIM Radio)

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Kosovo Assembly session where Kosovo Prime Minister Isa Mustafa is due to present his report on the achieved agreement on judiciary is not attended by MPs from the Serbian List. MPs from the Serbian List are not participating in the work of Kosovo institutions because of the deposition of the minister from the ranks of […]

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Kosovo not to be a condition for the opening of the first chapter (Danas)

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The upper house of Germany’s parliament, the Bundesrat, called for an early opening of the first chapter in the negotiations on Serbia’s membership in the EU without direct conditionality with the process progress in resolving the issue of Kosovo, according to a document in which Danas had access to. According to the findings of Danas, […]

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U.S. praise the resumption of Pristina – Belgrade dialogue (Koha)

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Kosovo President Atifete Jahjaga, met on Thursday with United States Deputy Assistant Secretary, Hoyt Yee, with whom she discussed current developments in Kosovo, the normalization of relations with Serbia within the Pristina – Belgrade dialogue and Kosovo’s obligations towards the international community.  Jahjaga said that the agreement reached in Brussels on the issue of justice […]

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Lunacek’s upcoming reports to European Parliament (Gazeta Blic)

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The upcoming report of the European Parliament’s rapporteur for Kosovo, Ulrike Lunacek, states that despite the progress made by Kosovo authorities, Pristina needs to step up its fight against traffickers who are enabling people of Kosovo to migrate to EU countries. The report calls on Kosovo authorities to clearly explain to the people that there […]

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Nikolic says “Europe won’t like” his Kosovo platform (Novi Magazin, B92)

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Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic has said that he was glad that the agreement on the judiciary in Kosovo was reached in Brussels. Speaking for the Novi Magazin publication, he at the same time expressed concern that Serbia is not ready to, “with the number of judges and prosecutors,” immediately begin its implementation. “I did not […]

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Mustafa meets U.S. Assistant Deputy Secretary, Hoyt Yee (Koha)

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Prime Minister of Kosovo, Isa Mustafa, met on Thursday with the United States Deputy Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs, Hoyt Yee. During the meeting, Yee congratulated PM Mustafa and the government of Kosovo for the agreement reached in Brussels in the field of justice, expressing further support of the US for the Pristina […]

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Djuric: Respectable number of Serbs in north KiM judiciary (Tanjug, Politika)

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BELGARDE – Marko Djuric, director of the Serbian government’s Office for Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) said for Thursday’s edition of Belgrade daily Politika that the trials in KiM will be conducted in line with the regulations passed by the Kosovo parliament. “Since the arrival of the international forces in our southern province in 1999, the legal framework, […]

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What is the content of the agreement on judiciary signed between Belgrade and Pristina (Blic)

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Serbian Government has managed to strike the best possible agreement in Brussels which guarantees to Kosovo Serbs access to justice in Serbian language in institutions where most of judges will be Serbs, said Serbian Minister of Justice, Nikola Selakovic. AGREEMENT 1. Kosovo laws will apply to judicial institutions in accordance with the First Agreement. 2. […]

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EU Office in Kosovo allocates funds for civil society (Koha)

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The European Union Office in Kosovo has allocated funds at the value of two million euros for civil society organizations. At the meeting that was organized by the Kosovo Foundation for Civil Society (KCSF) on Wednesday, it was announced that more than 100 civil society organizations and NGOs have applied for different projects that are […]

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