OSCE Broadcast 11 December
• Pantic refers to Kosovo institutions as provisional (Most monitored broadcasters, KTV)
• Association of Serb municipalities may jeopardise Kosovo’s sovereignty (Most monitored broadcasters, KTV)
• Tahiri: No basic court in north Mitrovicë/Mitrovica (RTK1)
• CEC certified final results of runoff elections (Most monitored broadcasters, TV21)
• Most of MUP members did not pass verification test for Kosovo Police (Most monitored broadcasters, RTK1)
Belgrade Daily Media Highlights 11 December
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Dacic: European Council to verify EU decision, anything else is wrong (RTS)
• Serb mayors ready for talks with Thaqi (Novosti)
• Vujicic: Agreement was for money to go to Komercijalna and not to Reifessen Bank (Politika)
• Excavations launched in Rudnica (Tanjug)
• Aligrudic: Dialogue to be conducted under UN auspices, not EU (Tanjug)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• B&H Prosecution launches investigation over non-implementation of the Sejdic-Finci ruling (Fena)
• Izetbegovic: We remain on same positions regarding Sejdic-Finci issue (Fena)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Serbia Counts on South Stream for Energy, Says PM Dacic (Novinite)
• Serbia, Croatia prepare for genocide trial (Southeast European Times)
• EU slashes financial aid for Bosnia in dispute over ethnic rights (Deutsche Welle)
• Bosnia investigates loss of EU funding (Associated Press)
• Bosnia’s most popular musician has a goal: To help poor Roma kids study music (Associated Press)
Corrupted Europeans (Zëri)
Deputy editor in chief of this daily, Lavdrim Hamidi, says that with the end of the several-months campaign, only heads of the company Satchi&Satchi and some minor local subcontractors who received over six million of tax-payers money, are satisfied. The intention was to enrich certain companies, while improvement of Kosovo’s image is out of question, […]
Read More →Economic failure (Kosova Sot)
The front page editorial of this daily writes that Kosovo government can brag as much as it wants about “its successes” when the reports of serious organizations bring alarming data on downfall of economic and social situation. According to the most recent report of the World Bank on South-Eastern Europe, on “slow recovery,” Kosovo leads […]
Read More →What the hell would Madam Jahjaga report to the Assembly about? (Koha Ditore)
The columnist of this daily, Halil Matoshi, wonders today what will the President of Kosovo, Atifete Jahjaga, say in her reporting to the Kosovo Assembly. “Her report should only include the strongest arguments for her resignation in front of the nation,” he says and adds that she has nothing more to offer to Kosovo citizen. […]
Read More →When the state violates rights (Kosova Sot)
The front page editorial of this daily, argues that the human rights of Kosovo citizens are guaranteed by the Constitution and the laws in power, but they are not being applied in practice, even by those who endorsed them. Official report of the Ombudsperson, show that judiciary and executive of both central and local levels, […]
Read More →De Maiziere in Pristina, does not meet local politicians (telegrafi.com)
German Defense Minister Thomas de Maiziere and five members of the German Bundestag visited today the main headquarters of KFOR and met COMKFOR Salvatore Farina in Pristina. Farina highlighted the importance of local elections as a success for KFOR and an achievement for local security organizations. “This important objective was reached also thanks to the […]
Read More →Thaci ready to meet mayors of northern municipalities (rtklive.com)
“Local elections were a great success for Kosovo because they were organized throughout the country, including the north, where mayors of the four northern municipalities were elected,” Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci said in today’s government meeting. Thaci said he was confident that national elections will be even more successful after election reforms which he […]
Read More →Pantic: Not a word about the status (Vecernje Novosti)
“We are ready to talk with everyone about all the issues that are in the interests of our citizens, but we will not go into topics that would directly or indirectly interfere with the status of Kosovo and Metohija.” Those were the words of the mayor of Kosovska Mitrovica Krstimir Pantic on the occasion of […]
Read More →Bulgaria and Kosovo increase co-operative efforts (SETimes)
Pristina and Sofia agreed to work closely together at a time when Kosovo is taking concrete steps to enter the EU integration process while achieving results from the EU-mediated talks with Serbia. Kosovo Foreign Minister Enver Hoxhaj visited Sofia last week and said the two countries opened a new chapter in their relations. “Bulgaria is […]
Read More →PHCC student who escaped from Kosovo will speak at graduation (Tampa Bay Times)
SPRING HILL — Veton Krasniqi was 5 years old when he and his family fled their home in Kosovo amid the growing ethnic conflict that engulfed the region in the late 1990s. Just a day after they escaped, their house outside the capital city of Pristina was bombed and burned down by Serbian military forces […]
Read More →Excavation starts in Raska (Press)
War Crimes Prosecution of Serbia and Missing Persons Commission have started excavation in village Rudnica in Raska municipality. It is suspected that around 250 bodies have been buried in a mass grave on that location. Chairperson of the Missing Persons Commission Veljko Odalovic said that by carrying out this excavation Commission wishes to ‘remove all […]
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