Belgrade Media Report 19 July
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Vucic: Far less incidents after Brussels agreement (RTS/Tanjug)
• Kozarev: Serbia will not draw borders with Kosovo and Metohija (Tanjug)
• Hahn: Law on jurisdiction not part of the process (Danas)
• Joksimovic: Opening of chapters to bring concrete benefits (Tanjug)
• Selakovic: Opening of chapters means higher degree of certainty (RTS)
• Vulin: Serbia tightens security, aware of danger of growing refugee numbers (Beta)
• Bratu appointed new OMiK Head (Beta)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• Hahn welcomes initialing of SAA (Oslobodjenje)
• Mogherini, Lajcak welcome initialing of SAA (TV1)
• Dodik: Initialing SAA a technical issue (RTRS)
• EU path of B&H also depends on Coordination Mechanism (BHT1)
• Prime Minister meets with Veterans Associations about Serbia’s EU Negotiations (Vecernji List)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• EU advances on Serbia talks despite UK departure (EUObserver)
• Brexit and its effect on EU enlargement in the Western Balkans (DW)
Kozarev: Serbia will not draw borders towards Kosovo-Metohija (Tanjug)
There can be no demarcation where there is no border, the deputy head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo and Metohija Dusan Kozarev said Tuesday in a message to the Pristina interim authorities, urging them to give up hope on ever seeing Serbia draw borders towards its southern province. There can be no demarcation […]
Read More →“Better result needed” in dialogue with Pristina – PM (B92)
“Hardd work on Serbia’s EU integration path continued” in the wake of Monday’s opening of Chapters 23 and 24 in the country’s accession talks. Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic and EU foreign policy and security chief Federica Mogherini made this conclusion on Tuesday, as they met in Brussels. The meeting addressed Chapter 35 on the […]
Read More →Parts of plots owned by Serbs declared as streets (Vesti)
Serbs who live in Pristina municipality are outraged by a decision of local authorities to usurp their properties. Without any explanation the Municipality, headed by the Mayor, Shpend Ahmeti, from the ranks Self-Declaration (Vetëvendosje) Movement, has turned into streets the parts of plots owned by Serbs in the village Čaglavica and placed street name boards […]
Read More →Oliver Ivanović spent more than 900 days in jail (Politika)
The Appellate Court in Pristina still did not respond to the appeal of lawyers, submitted on the first instance verdict, and according to which Oliver Ivanović, leader of the Civic Initiative Sloboda Demokratija Pravda (CI SDP), was sentenced to nine years in prison. As stated by Ivanović’s sister Nataša Ilić, an answer can be expected […]
Read More →5 Kosovo Albanians jailed for plans to prepare IS video (AP)
A Kosovo court has sentenced five ethnic Albanians to jail terms for plans to prepare an Islamic State video. A Pristina court sentenced them Monday from four to 13 years in prison. The verdict said the five, who were arrested last year, aimed at “frightening the population, destabilizing and destroying fundamental political, constitutional, economic and […]
Read More →Kosovo government is preparing plan B for Brezovica (RTK2)
After the failure of the capital project of the French-Andorran consortium about investments in Brezovica, Kosovo Government announced plan B for this tourist and recreational complex. Minister of Trade and Industry Hykmete Bajrami says that the Government is currently considering two options for Brezovica: “First, the Law on strategic investment (if passed by Parliament in […]
Read More →Lekaj: Government commission should be dismissed (Tribuna)
The Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK) MP, Pal Lekaj, said on Tuesday that during the border-demarcation debate organized for 3 August, the AAK will call for the current demarcation commission to be dismissed and for a new mixed commission to be established for this issue. “The current commission has an obligation to participate […]
Read More →Hyseni: 70 active fighters from Kosovo in Syria and Iraq (media)
Kosovo’s Interior Minister, Skender Hyseni, told a parliamentary briefing today that according to official information there are 70 active fighters from Kosovo in Syria and Iraq. “There are also 38 women and 27 children. 57 Kosovar nationals have been declared dead,” Hyseni told the parliamentary committee on internal affairs and security. Hyseni said Kosovo Police […]
Read More →NATO “stamps” the debate for demarcation with Montenegro (Gazeta Fjala)
Demarcation of the border between Kosovo and Montenegro was defined by the NATO multiethnic forces. The entire debate so far on the issue appears to have been vain. Gazeta Fjala found out that the borderline between Kosovo and Montenegro was confirmed by Kumanovo Agreement, which ended presence of Serbian armed forces in Kosovo. This agreement […]
Read More →Turkey’s Baffling Coup (Project Syndicate/Koha Ditore)
Koha Ditore re-runs an opinion piece by Dani Rodrik that originally appeared on Project Syndicate. Rodrik is Professor of International Political Economy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. He is the author of The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy and, most recently, Economics Rules: The Rights and Wrongs of the […]
Read More →OSCE Broadcast 18 July
• Braathu appointed as the new head of the OSCE mission in Kosovo (RTK2)
• Zbogar to be appointed as the new EU Ambassador to Skopje (Most monitored broadcasters, Klan Kosova & TV21)
• Assembly Presidency schedules roundtable on demarcation (KTV)
• Haradinaj reiterates stance against Association and demarcation (Klan Kosova)
• Journalists oppose Government’s initiative to control the media (Most monitored broadcasters, KTV)
• VV member banned from entering Kosovo (Most monitored broadcasters, Klan Kosova)
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