Salvini: Serbia as a part of the EU is an interesting idea; Orban for even better relations with Serbia (Blic)
Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini said yesterday, after the European Parliament elections, that he met President of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic and assessed as interesting the idea of Serbia being a part of the EU, while opposing the idea of Turkey’s entry, reports Belgrade based daily Blic. Salvini’s far-right League party won 33,8 per cent […]
Read More →Italy “understands Belgrade’s position on Kosovo” (Tanjug, B92)
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic was in Rome on Wednesday where he met with Italian Deputy PM and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini. According to announcements, Vucic discussed the Kosovo-Metohija issue with Salvini, whom he sees as one of Europe’s most influential politicians. Despite a differing stance on the Kosovo issue, Italy understands Serbia’s position, Vucic said […]
Read More →Vucic: My Kosovo solution idea failed; that will cost us dearly (B92, Blic, N1, Tanjug)
President Aleksandar Vucic said on Friday he regretted that his idea of establishing a final compromise boundary between Serbs and Albanians has failed. As he said, the idea failed because “our people thought differently, and that will cost us dearly in two to three decades.” Vucic also announced today that he will meet with Italy’s […]
Read More →Rome: Serbs and Italians as victims of NATO bombs (Vecernje Novosti, Tanjug, B92)
A gathering has been held in Rome dedicated to the consequences of the use of depleted uranium ammunition. The participants in the event, which was also attended by a Serbian delegation, said that it was time to hear the truth, and that NATO should never again use depleted uranium – as it had done during […]
Read More →Italian PM: Pristina should drop taxes and enable dialogue (B92, Tanjug)
Pristina should withdraw taxes (on goods from central Serbia) and enable dialogue with Belgrade to continue. Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said this in Belgrade on Wednesday. Speaking at a joint press conference with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, Conte was asked by Tanjug how Italy looks at the Pristina’s current policy, “which is not ready […]
Read More →Brnabic: Serbia grateful for Italy’s unequivocal support (Serbian Government, B92)
Prime Minister Ana Brnabic received in Belgrade on Wednesday Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, who was on a one-day visit to Serbia. According to the Serbian Government, she “expressed the wish during the talks that economic cooperation between the two countries, as the most developed part of the overall relations, be further improved.” Brnabic wished […]
Read More →Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte visiting Serbia (RTS, B92, TV N1)
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte pays one-day visit to Serbia. He has been received by President Aleksandar Vucic and Prime Minister Ana Brnabic. For the first time since taking office, Conte is traveling to the Western Balkans, and the visit to Serbia is his first bilateral visit to a European country since the beginning of […]
Read More →Vucic concerned by EU’s inability to pressure Pristina (Tanjug, B92)
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has expressed his concern over Pristina’s stance to, despite pressure from the international community, not revoke its tariffs on Serbian goods, Tanjug news agency reported. The President Vucic, speaking to the Italian Ambassador Carlo Lo Cascio in Belgrade on Monday, said Serbia will return to dialogue only after the withdrawal of […]
Read More →Italian Defense Minister Trenta says KFOR “to keep protecting Serbs in Kosovo” (BETA, Serbian Government, B92)
Italian Defense Minister Elisabetta Trenta met with President Aleksandar Vucic in Belgrade, on Monday, Beta agency reported. Trenta said that the Kosovo Force (KFOR) would continue to play an important role in preserving peace and stability, and in protecting the Serbs and other non-Albanians in Kosovo and Metohija, under the command of an Italian general. […]
Read More →Italian high-ranking delegation visited Visoki Decani monastery (KoSSev)
Italian Minister of Defence, Elisabetta Trenta, Italian Ambassador in Pristina, Piero Cristoforo Sardi, the Italian Chief of General Staff, General Claudio Graziano, the head of the Chief of Defence Office, General Francesco Figliuolo, KFOR commander, General Salvatore Cuoci and their associates visited Serbian Orthodox Church Visoki Decani monastery yesterday, KoSSev portal reported. The Abbot of […]
Read More →Italy: A criminal group arrested, had contacts with “New KLA”(Kossev)
Carabinieri in Palermo arrested 17 people suspected of the transnational criminal smuggling of migrants and arms trafficking. The criminal organization had contacts with Cosa Nostra, to who it sold arms, but also with the „Albanian paramilitary group, the New KLA“ linked with jihadist circles,“ the Italian media reported. The criminal group had activities in Switzerland, […]
Read More →Italian colonel says he fell ill with cancer in Kosovo (Vecernje Novosti, Tanjug, B92)
Italian Red Cross Colonel Emerico Maria Laccetti has told Vecernje Novosti that he had been diagnosed with a “giant lung tumor” upon returning from Kosovo. According to Laccetti, the tumor was a direct consequence of exposure to ionizing radiation that he experienced there. Depleted uranium ammunition was used by NATO during its bombing of Serbia, […]
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