Kosovo Serb opposition airs campaign video in Albanian slamming Serbian List (N1, Beta, Kosovo online)
Kosovo Serb’s opposition coalition “Freedom” candidate for Prime Minister on October 6 early elections in Kosovo Nenad Rasic published a campaign video in Albanian, calling on people to vote for the coalition to “jointly renounce a political monster called Serbian List,” the Beta news agency reported on Monday. The Serbian List is the leading party […]
Read More →Terrible things happen in election campaign (N1)
The owner of Mir (Peace) TV from northernmost Leposavic town in Kosovo Nenad Radosavljevic said that during the campaign ahead of the October 6 elections “really terrible things happen,” mentioning the case of a doctor who was fired after 36 years of work assumingly for participating at an opposition gathering,” N1 reported on Monday. Radosavljevic […]
Read More →N1: Kosovo Serb List ignores invitation to election campaign debate
The Serb List ignored an invitation for a debate attended by other Kosovo Serb parties at the start of the campaign for the October 6 parliamentary elections. All three Kosovo Serb parties and one coalition were invited to the debate in Caglavica. Officials of the Freedom (Sloboda) coalition, Party of Kosovo Serbs and Serb Liberal […]
Read More →RFE: EU envoy for Belgrade-Pristina dialogue a certainty (Beta, N1)
The appointment of a European Union special envoy for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue is a sure thing and the decision will probably be announced after the EU’s future top diplomat Josep Borrell adresses the European Parliament on October 7, Radio Free Europe said on Thursday quoting unnamed diplomatic sources in Brussels. Those sources said that Borrell, […]
Read More →Situation in Balkans won’t improve on its own, US General says (VoA, N1, Danas)
The appointment of Matthew Palmer as the US special envoy to the Western Balkans proves how much it is important for the American diplomacy that Kosovo and Serbia reach a long-lasting solution, a retired US Army General Ben Hodges has told the Voice of America (VOA) on Thursday, adding Belgarde and Pristina leaders should have […]
Read More →Vucic reiterates Belgrade ready for talks with Pristina after tariffs are lifted (FoNet, N1)
Aleksandar Vucic, President of Serbia, confirmed that Serbia was ready to resume the Belgrade – Pristina dialogue on the normalization of relations as soon as Kosovo lifted the 100 percent import taxes on goods from Serbia and Bosnia introduced last November, the FoNet news agency reported. In a meeting with Matthew Palmer, the US special […]
Read More →Western Balkans countries will fill in gap on European map, Ivan Vejvoda says
Ivan Vejvoda, the Director of the European Project at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna (IWM), said on Tuesday he believed the Western Balkans countries would become the European Union member states and that the question was not whether but when that would happen, the Beta news agency reported. Addressing the seminar organised by […]
Read More →US envoy to N1: Ideally, resumption of Kosovo talks before election campaign in Serbia
Pristina will have to lift the import tariffs on goods from Serbia and Bosnia, and Belgrade will have to take some steps towards a compromise to resume the dialogue on the normalisation of relations, the US outgoing ambassador to Serbia Kayle Scott told N1 TV morning show on Tuesday. He said he hoped that after […]
Read More →Greek PM Mitsotakis to Vucic: Greece does not change its stance on Kosovo (Beta, N1, B92)
President of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic and Greek Prime Minister Kyroys Mitsotakis agreed in New York that two nations had a sincere friendship and discussed bilateral relations, the situation in the region and Belgrade’s road to the European Union, the Beta news agency reported on Tuesday. Vucic asked Mitsotakis not to change the Greek stand towards […]
Read More →Former US envoy to Serbia: Vucic ready to talk, not to sign document (Danas, FoNet, N1)
Cameron Munter, a former US ambassador to Serbia, told belgrade based daily Danas that President of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic was ready to talk about an agreement on the normalisation of relations with Pristina, but not to “sign a paper”, quoted Serbian media. Munter said he believed it was okay since there were people in Kosovo […]
Read More →US envoy: Humiliation of partners in Kosovo dialogue doesn’t help (Blic, Beta, N1)
Outgoing US ambassador to Serbia Kyle Scott said on Monday that Belgrade and Washington had a different opinion about Kosovo but that they agreed that the only way towards progress was the resumption of the dialogue on the normalisation of relations, the Beta news agency reported. In an interview with the Belgrade based daily Blic, […]
Read More →Serbian opposition leader has plan for Kosovo without Vucic and his partners in Pristina (FoNet, N1, Beta)
Serbian opposition leader Dragan Djilas told reporters on Thursday that his Party of Freedom and Justice has a plan for Kosovo which does not include President Aleksandar Vucic and his partners in Pristina. Djilas said that Vucic was out of the plan because “he does not know what the word reconciliation means”. “Our plan includes […]
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