Belgrade Daily Media Highlights 13 December
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• The last Brussels round for the date (RTS)
• Pristina establishing customs at Jarinje and Brnjak crossings (Politika)
• Statute of Union of Serb Municipalities in final phase (Novosti)
• Selakovic: Demands of Albanians in South-East Serbia unrealistic (Tanjug)
• Cooperation of Serbian and Kosovo Chambers of Commerce (Tanjug)
• Davenport: EU preparing for inter-governmental conference (Beta)
• EU: Two frameworks for Serbia (Tanjug)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• OHR calls on MPs not to support amendments to Elektroprijenos law (Fena)
• Serious warning from EU over Elektroprijenos (Oslobodjenje)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Is Serbia the new Ukraine? (New Europe)
• Kosovo Attains Status (on Facebook) It Has Sought for Years: Nation (New York Times)
• Greece not to allow Macedonia to get date for EU talks (Focus News Agency)
• Montenegro Sets New Date for Highway (BIRN)
Pension, for the policeman from Kosovo, three million dinars (Politika)
Serbia began with the first payment of pension arrears in Kosovo to the pensioners who have earned this right before 1999, when the payment was canceled. The move of our government was ratified by the court in Strasbourg, where was initiated the case against our country. That confirmed yesterday Dragi Vidojević, State secretary in the […]
Read More →Serbia needs to strengthen its asylum system, capacities (Tanjug)
Council of Europe (CoE) Commissioner for Human Rights Nils Muiznieks has said that Serbia needs to strengthen its asylum system and reception capacities in order to cope with the ever increasing number of arrivals, in particular from war-torn Syria, and promised to call on international donors to provide Serbia with assistance in relation to that. […]
Read More →Vukcevic: Crimes of organ trafficking were proven (Tanjug)
Serbia’s War Crimes Prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic has said he is pleased with the course of the investigation into organ trafficking in Kosovo, adding that the investigation has proven that those crimes were committed, that they are treated as war crimes and that they have no statute of limitations. “I am very pleased with the investigation […]
Read More →Crucial round of Belgrade-Priština dialogue (B92)
The 20th round of the Belgrade-Priština dialogue is being held in Brussels on Friday, the discussion focusing on the functioning of the judiciary in Kosovo. Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dačić and Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić are taking part in the talks held at the office of EU diplomacy chief Catherine Ashton with Kosovo Prime […]
Read More →Thaci “expects agreement on judiciary” (Tanjug,B92)
Kosovo Prime Minister Hasim Thaci has said that he expects that the talks will yield an agreement on the judiciary-related issues. He made the comment on Friday before a meeting with Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dačić in the framework of the Belgrade-Priština dialogue in Brussels. Thaci told reporters in Brussels that “expert groups that discussed […]
Read More →Kosovo No Haven for Extremists, President Says (BIRN)
Following reports of Kosovars fighting in Syria, President Atifete Jahjaga has warned that the country will not serve as a haven for any kind of extremism. As an increased number of Muslim fighters from Europe head to Syria to participate in the conflict there, the President of mainly Muslim Kosovo, Atifete Jahjaga, said the country’s […]
Read More →We hope it does not end the way it started (Zëri)
Columnist Ali Cenaj says on the second page of this daily that Prime Minister’s expressed will to meet the recently elected mayors of municipalities with Serb majority, received an unusual response, in fact an ultimatum, which did not even come from the mayors in the north, but from “one of these designed leopard maps of […]
Read More →Abandoned children find family care in Kosovo (BIRN)
More than 40 families have joined the “families’ movements” association in Kosovo to provide abandoned children with housing, food and education. The initiative is supported by the government and aims to keep these children in families, treating them with love and showing them parental care before they are adopted. Elizabeta Gjolekaj, a woman in her […]
Read More →Brussels: Cooperation between commercial chambers of Serbia and Kosovo (Novi Magazin)
Agreement on cooperation between commercial chambers of Serbia and Kosovo was signed today in Brussels, on the margins of the 20th round of dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina, carried European Commission. Agreement was signed by the chairperson of the Commercial Chamber of Serbian Zeljko Sertic and chairperson of the Commercial Chamber of Kosovo Saftet Gerxhaliu, […]
Read More →Çeku and Kastrati welcomed with high honors in Naples (Radio Kosova)
The Minister of Kosovo Security Force, Agim Çeku and the KSF commander, General Lieutenant, Kadri Kastrati, have been welcomed with high honor in the Joint Command of the Alliance in Naples, from the commander, Admiral Bruce Clingan Minister Çeku and KSF commander, General Kastrati, initially had closed meetings with the Commander of NTO Alliance Joint […]
Read More →It was not an accident (Gazeta Express)
Imer Mushkolaj considers that those who claim that Shpend Ahmeti’s victory was an accident, either did not live in Pristina during the last ten years, or they cannot bare the fact of Isa Mustafa’s legendary loss. Citizens wanted a change, and they managed it, says Mushkolaj. However, he says, Ahmeti should be aware that he […]
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