Belgrade Daily Media Highlights 16 December
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Serbian Interior Ministry members to be integrated into Kosovo police service (Tanjug)
• Vulin: Money going to north Kosovo (Novosti)
• Zbogar: Slovenian bank had best offer (Politika)
• Serbia should be graded according to what it has done – Ruzic (Tanjug)
• Serbia needs to strengthen its asylum system, capacities (Tanjug)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• House of Peoples adopts amendments to B&H electoral law (Dnevni Avaz)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• A new mass grave found in Serbia (World Bulletin)
• Serbia Adopts 2014 Budget With Europe’s Highest Fiscal Deficit (Bloomberg)
• Bosnian war-crimes suspect released from prison (AP)
“Crucial week for Serbia in Brussels” (B92)
BELGRADE — EU foreign ministers are meeting in Brussels, where they will on Tuesday set the dates of the first EU-Serbia conference and start of accession talks. On the first day of the meeting, the ministers, as part of a Foreign Affairs Council meeting, will hear a brief report from the EU High Representative for […]
Read More →Pristina began to charge fees on Jarinje and Brnjak (Politika)
Only four tracks yesterday crossed integrated crossing, as businessmen from northern Kosovo blocked the highway. – The Fund for the north in full force. Kosovska Mitrovica – On the integrated crossings Jarinje and Brnjak, in the north, according to the provisions of the Brussels Treaty began the collection of VAT and excise duties from Pristina, […]
Read More →Next week Branimir Stojanovic takes over the post (KIM radio)
Newly elected mayor of Gracanica Branimir Stojanovic said to KIM radio that he will officially take over the post of a mayor of the municipality next week. “Solemn session is due to take place in the course of next week, what will mark the beginning of the sole process of taking over the authority, while […]
Read More →Northern Kosovo after elections (Koha Ditore)
Editor-in-chief Agron Bajrami argues that while the risk from tensions caused by hardline Serbs in northern Kosovo may have decreased, a much more serious threat is looming in the not-so-distant future: a local Serb government under the tutelage of the Association of Serb Municipalities, led by Srpska and instructed by the Government of Serbia, which […]
Read More →The Trojan Horse (Kosova Sot)
“The Government says that the Association of Serb Municipalities will be a non-governmental organization, but even ordinary citizens do not believe this anymore,” the paper’s front-page editorial notes. “If it were an NGO, there would be no need to have lengthy and hard negotiations about its statute in Brussels. Even foreign diplomats in Pristina do […]
Read More →“Yellow house” crime become statute barred in June? (Politika)
Statement of Director of the State Department Office for South and Central Europe, Jonathan Moore, that in June next year expires legal deadline for investigation of possible crimes in the “trafficking in organs”, shows that there are many reasons for concern about the fate of an investigation into the torture and murder of Serbs, in […]
Read More →Serbs block northern Kosovo border crossing (AP)
JARINJE, Kosovo (AP) — About 30 Kosovo Serbs are blocking a northern border crossing with Serbia in opposition to paying customs duties to ethnic Albanian authorities, which is part of an agreement reached between Serbia and Kosovo. An Associated Press reporter at the Jarinje crossing on Saturday saw passenger vehicles being allowed to pass but […]
Read More →Thaçi: All political leaders to meet for elections reform (Radio Kosova)
Radio Kosova reports that Kosovo Prime Minister, Hashim Thaçi, in social network, Facebook, explained that today Kosovo political leaders will meet for the issue of election reform for national elections. “In every elections cycle Kosovo citizens have passed their institutional maturity test, as in the participation, same also in the expressed democratic culture. It is […]
Read More →Collect damages if you know the Albanian (Dnevnik)
Collection of certain taxes at the administrative crossings Jarinje and Brnjak began on Saturday by the Brussels agreement, and as announced, the entire collection of taxes and VAT will go to the Fund for the Development of Northern Kosovo. “Everything we collect, we collect for ourselves, any obligation we avoid, we avoid obligation towards ourselves,” […]
Read More →War damages after implementation of agreements (Kosova Sot)
Even after 14 years since the war and genocide in Kosovo ended, there is no talk about the war damage compensation process. Despite estimates of the damage having been prepared on several occasions, the mission still continues. At the same time, dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia has not reached this point of discussion yet. Government […]
Read More →NLB Bank opens the account of the Fund for Northern Kosovo (RTK2)
Special Representative of the European Union in Kosovo, a Slovenian, Samuel Zbogar, one of the three members of the board of the Fund for Northern Kosovo said that Slovenian bank NLB is the one that had the best offer for opening the account of the Fund in Pristina. “There were no conditions with regards to […]
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