Borchardt: EULEX mandate will be discussed after June 2014 (kohaditore.com)
EULEX chief, Berndt Borchardt, stated that the new mandate of EULEX will be discussed after June 2014, when the agreement between EU and Kosovo Government will be reached. “This is a complicated process, which reflects a big number of significant developments between Kosovo and the European Union,” said Borchardt in an interview for RTK. According […]
Read More →Maybe there is a way for Serbia to join the EU without recognizing Kosovo (Politika)
Interview: James Ker- Lindsey, a senior research associate of the London School of Economics and Political Science Although European Union in last few days clearly linked negotiations on Serbia’s membership in the EU with the normalization of relations between Serbia and Kosovo, a British expert on the Balkans and Cyprus, James Ker – Lindsay doesn’t […]
Read More →Luxurious car burns out near Banjska (Tanjug)
ZVECAN – A Hummer Jeep with Subotica (northern Serbia) license plates caught fire around midnight in the village of Balaban near Banjska, by the Kosovska Mitrovica-Raska road in northern Kosovo. Regional chief of operations at the Kosovo Police Service Zeljko Bojic told Tanjug that the vehicle burnt out five minutes past midnight, but that its […]
Read More →Dacic, Taci, Ashton nominated for Nobel Peace Prize (Tanjug, Vecernje Novosti)
WASHINGTON – Representatives of the Serbian and Albanian Issues caucuses in the U.S. Congress have addressed a letter to the Norwegian Nobel Committee, nominating Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dacic, Kosovo Prime Minister Hasim Taci and the EU’s foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton for the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize because of their critical roles in normalizing […]
Read More →Meetings of the Assemblies postponed in northern KIM (RTS)
Inaugural meeting of the four municipalities in northern Kosmet, which had been scheduled for today are postponed. The sessions were postponed at the request of the Government of Serbia and the request of the European Union. Meetings of the Assembly of the Municipality of Kosovska Mitrovica, Zvecan, Zubin Potok and Leposavic, which had been scheduled […]
Read More →Thaci: People of Kosovo deserve the Nobel prize (telegrafi.com)
Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci said he received on Monday the news about his nomination by the U.S. Congress for the Nobel Peace Prize. He said he feels honored by the nomination. “I want to speak to you from the heart: regardless of what happens next, you the people of Kosovo more than anyone else […]
Read More →Inauguration of municipal assemblies in the north postponed (koha.net)
Citing reports by Serbian media, Koha reports that the inauguration of municipal assemblies in the northern part of Kosovo, scheduled for today, has been postponed. Kosovo’s Ministry for Local Government sent a letter on Monday evening to the four northern municipalities calling on them to postpone the inauguration sessions. The letter makes it clear that […]
Read More →Blind on one eye? (Koha Ditore)
Enver Robelli focuses his writing on a recent interview Vetëvendosje leader Albin Kurti gave to a news agency where he said that EULEX should not investigate at all war crimes because the KLA war was righteous. Robelli claims it is evident Kurti is intentionally blind on one eye because he was the one who gave […]
Read More →Two mandates are enough (Tribuna)
Democratic League of Kosovo MP, Vjosa Osmani-Sadriu, writes in an opinion piece for the paper that the Ahtisaari package provides solutions and rights for communities that surpass those granted by any European country. Although the practice of affirmative acts for minority groups is not something that originated in Kosovo, the steps that this country undertook […]
Read More →Deputy PM “to travel to Kosovo on Jan. 7” (B92,Novosti)
BELGRADE — First Deputy PM Aleksandar Vučić intends to spend Orthodox Christmas, January 7, with Serbs in Kosovo, the daily Večernje Novosti writes. It has not yet been decided whether he would attend liturgy services in the Serbian Orthodox monastery of Dečani or in Gračanica, according to the article. The newspaper said that after this […]
Read More →Davenport: EU expects normal relations, not recognition (Tanjug, Vesti)
BELGRADE – Head of the EU Delegation to Serbia Michael Davenport said on Monday the EU had clearly stated it expected a comprehensive normalization of the relations between Belgrade and Pristina, and not Serbia’s recognition of Kosovo’s independence. According to the European Council decision from June and the new decision from the Council from last […]
Read More →Serbian UNGA presidency helps country regain recognition (Tanjug)
BELGRADE – Vuk Jeremic, president of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) for its 67th session, submitted a report on his presiding over the UNGA to Serbian Foreign Minister Ivan Mrkic on Monday. The report says that the Serbia’s presidency of the UNGA has helped the country regain international recognition, improve its relations with the […]
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