German MPs proud of 13 withdrawn recognitions of Kosovo independence (B92, Tanjug)
Armin Paulus Hampel is proud of the authorities in Serbia which have succeeded in persuading as many as 13 states to revoke recognition of Kosovo independence, Tanjug news agency reports today. Head of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Alternative for Germany (Alternative für Deutschland, AfD) in the Bundestag, Hampel, also emphasized the fact that […]
Read More →Danas: Talks on Kosovo in the future in ‘troika’ form
Negotiations on Kosovo in the future “likely to be in troika form” in Brussels, diplomats from EU headquarters told Belgrade based daily Danas. As they explain, this implies that “in addition to representatives of Belgrade and Pristina, the United States Special Envoy for the Western Balkans, Matthew Palmer, the EU Special Envoy for those negotiations, […]
Read More →Drecun: Kosovo Albanians not ready to sit at the negotiating table (RTS)
Chairman of the Serbian Assembly Committee for KiM Milovan Drecun told Radio Television of Serbia (RTS) that the purpose of the elections in Kosovo is to stabilize the Albanian political scene, to build an executive that will be more unified on key political issues and have a firmer position for talks with Belgrade. Drecun adds […]
Read More →Merkel on resolving Kosovo issue, Brnabic on the only point of disagreement (B92, Tanjug)
German Chancellor Angela Merkel welcomes Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic in Berlin today with state honours. German Chancellor Angela Merkel said today after meeting with Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic that the process of solving the problems of Kosovo and Metohija should be continued and further improved in order to reach a solution. She said […]
Read More →“For 20 years German governments have worked to dismember Yugoslavia, the attitude about Kosovo is hypocritical” (B92, Vecernje Novosti)
Germany’s stance that Kosovo’s independence is a done thing, as well as opposition to border adjustments or division, are hypocritical and arrogant, the Left MP said. “These messages about the ‘finished thing’ are hypocritical. For 20 years, the German governments have worked one after the other to split Yugoslavia along ethnic lines, despite EU and […]
Read More →Russia is getting involved in the resolve of Kosovo issue? (Politika, Tanjug, B92)
Dusan Janjic from the Forum for Ethnic Relations says a new format of Belgrade-Pristina dialogue is likely to be created to include new players Among others, it will include Russia. In a statement given to Belgrade based daily Politika, he said that in addition to US Envoy Matthew Palmer, it is possible that Germany and […]
Read More →German Special Envoy to the Balkans: “The road-map is clear, only that Serbia and Kosovo will not be eventually united” (Blic)
Belgrade based daily Blic writes today that the great American diplomatic return to the Balkans, obviously initiated by the EU’s inability to unravel the Kosovo knot, has sparked nervousness in the EU, and emissaries come to see what can be done after Mogherini’s diplomatic collapse. One of them, Peter Beyer, a member of the German […]
Read More →Merkel: Dark clouds lean over Belgrade-Pristina dialogue (Tanjug, B92)
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the dark clouds lean over Belgrade-Pristina dialogue after Kosovo introduced tariffs on the Serbian goods, Tanjug news agency reports. Talking to news correspondents in Berlin, Merkel emphasized that Germany has a major interest for European integration “of Serbia and Kosovo” there is a progress on that way, but as she […]
Read More →Heldt: Site in Novo Brdo only preserved, there would be no further works (KoSSev, Radio Gorazdevac)
German Ambassador in Pristina Christian Heldt commented on recent controversy related to changing the history that occurred after the Kosovo Ministry of Culture restoration of Saint Nikola Church in Novo Brdo, for which Serbian Orthodox Church and the Serbian Academy of Science and Arts said it is a part of the Orthodox heritage, represented as […]
Read More →Delegation of the German Christian Democratic Union visited Visoki Decani (Kossev)
A group of senior officials of the German Christian Democratic Union, led by European Parliament Vice-President Reiner Wieland, visited the Visoki Decani Monastery today where they talked about the current situation in Kosovo, as well as about the monastery itself with Abbot Sava Janjic. Visoki Decani monastery announced in a Facebook post that Father Sava […]
Read More →German government for Deutsche Welle: Paris meeting postponed (Insajder)
The summit in Paris, where the top representatives of Serbia and Kosovo were supposed to meet, in the presence of French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, is postponed. This was confirmed by the German government’s press service for Deutsche Welle. “It is true that the meeting announced for July 1 will be […]
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