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Berlin summit – pompous, and hollow (N1)

By   /  30/04/2019  /  Serb. Monitoring  /  Comments Off on Berlin summit – pompous, and hollow (N1)

Journalist and sociologist Zoran Panovic told N1, referring to yesterday’s Brussels summit, that it turned out pompous, and hollow – with a lot of phrases. Obviously, the pressure was there, Panovic said. Panovic estimates that there is a paradox concerning the relations between Serbia and Germany – personal, Vucic’s and other links are best with […]

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Del Ponte: Kosovo became state too soon (Danas, KoSSev)

By   /  05/11/2018  /  Serb. Monitoring  /  Comments Off on Del Ponte: Kosovo became state too soon (Danas, KoSSev)

Former Chief Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court for the former Yugoslavia, Carla Del Ponte said there is a lot more work to be done in relation to punishing war crimes in former Yugoslavia, Danas daily reports. “Since the war in the Balkans, the International Court for former Yugoslavia defeated 160 leaders from high military […]

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Aleksandar Vučić: ‘Tito was a very smart guy’ (Politico)

By   /  06/04/2017  /  International  /  No Comments

Serbia’s president-elect on his critics, Merkel and the outlook for the region. Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić sat down with POLITICO on Wednesday for his first extensive interview since winning his country’s presidential election in a landslide. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and EU leaders regard Vučić, 47,  as the guarantor of stability in an unstable […]

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“Kosovo automatically inherited property of Yugoslavia and Serbia” (RTK)

By   /  17/03/2017  /  Articles from Kosovo media  /  No Comments

Kosovo’s Ministry of Justice has issued a press release specifying that the decision of the government of Kosovo to register as its own the immovable property originally registered under former Yugoslavia and Serbia is based on the Constitution of Kosovo and declaration of Kosovo’s independence.  “As an independent country and based on international law rules, […]

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“Journalist need institutional solidarity to fight safety risks” (B92)

By   /  09/03/2017  /  Serb. Monitoring  /  No Comments

On February 27, the Austrian Chairmanship of the OSCE held a high-level conference on Freedom of the Media in the Western Balkans, at Hofburg in Vienna. The following is the address at the conference of Veran Matic, head of Serbia’s Commission for the Investigation of Murders of Journalists and news editor-in-chief for B92: I believe […]

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Dysfunction in the Balkans (Foreign Affairs)

By   /  22/12/2016  /  International  /  No Comments

The political settlement in the former Yugoslavia is unraveling. In Bosnia, the weakest state in the region, both Serbs and Croats are mounting a concerted challenge to the Dayton peace accords, the delicate set of compromises that hold the country together. In Macedonia, political figures from the large Albanian minority are calling for the federalization […]

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Brussels court sentences Serbian nationals to life imprisonment (Tanjug)

By   /  25/11/2016  /  Serb. Monitoring  /  No Comments

A Brussels court has sentenced Serbian nationals Veselin Vukotic, Andrija Draskovic and Bozidar Spasic to life imprisonment for the murder of Kosovo human rights activist Enver Hadri in Brussels 26 years ago. The jury handed maximum jail terms to the three men, sentencing Vukotic and Draskovic as the perpetrators and Spasic as the mastermind of […]

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“West humiliated Russia in Balkans; Putin won’t give it up” (B92, Washington Post)

By   /  21/09/2016  /  Serb. Monitoring  /  No Comments

Russia’s “information campaigns in the Balkans” are part of its “strategy is to create a perception of Russia as a great power and powerful ally.” There, is, however “little substance behind it in investments or donations to the nations involved,” writes the Washington Post. The article published under the headline “Russia has a years-long plot […]

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Border demarcation would not have to be related to visas (Koha Ditore)

By   /  16/05/2016  /  Opinions  /  No Comments

Augustin Palokaj writes in his weekly column for the paper that while the news of visa liberalization for Kosovo is good, it should be received with caution as it is difficult to give an exact estimate of when the visa regime will actually be lifted. According to Palokaj, on one hand, there is no predictability […]

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