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OSCE Broadcast 21 January

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• Lunacek: Visa liberalisation for Kosovo in two or three years (All monitored broadcasters, TV21)
• Inaugural session of Klokot/Kllokot municipality held (RTK2)
• Pantic may rerun for mayor only in compliance with Kosovo legislation (RTK2, KTV)
• Former MUP members attend short training course (Klan Kosova)
• State Prosecutor’s Office investigating 2,470 suspects for corruption (All monitored broadcasters, TV21)
• Kosovo Police: Criminality increased (Most monitored broadcasters, KTV)
• Eight Kosovo judges on trial for unlawful legal decisions (Most monitored broadcasters, RTK1)

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Belgrade Daily Media Highlights 21 January

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STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS

• Serbia-EU talks opened (RTS)
• Dacic: EU accession process does not concern Kosovo status (Tanjug)
• Miscevic: Negotiations with EU, and what follows (RTS)
• Fule: No time to relax (Tanjug)
• Djuric: EU is not a dogma or an ideology, but it is in Serbia’s interest (Novosti)
• Lavrov: Russia must do everything for stability in the Balkans (Beta)

STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS

• Covic: Two electoral units in B&H Federation acceptable (FTV)
• Nimetz to speak before EP (Utrinski Vesnik)

RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES

• Serbia starts EU membership talks (EUobserver)
• Bringing Serbia in from the cold? EU talks begin (CNBC)
• Serbs See Future Alongside Former EU Foes After Bloody Past (2) (Bloomberg)
• Serbia secures 150 million euro boost from EIB (Reuters)
• IMF, Serbia to discuss new loan deal in March: IMF (Reuters)
• Serbia to reconsider labor law in face of union opposition (Reuters)
• European court ruling belongs to legal arena: appellants (Xinhua)
• Montenegro Removes Graffiti Mocking Srebrenica Massacres (BIRN)

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FIFA treats Kosovo the same as EU (Koha Ditore)

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Brussels based correspondent of this daily, Augustin Palokaj, writes that FIFA’s permission for Kosovo to be able to play friendly internationals soccer games appears to be the same as European Union’s offer for Stabilization Association Agreement. It is a positive step, but it does not make Kosovo equal, he says. Kosovo cannot play official games, […]

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Kosovo increases security after killing of Serb assembly member (SETimes)

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Kosovo authorities said the slaying was intended to spread fear at a time when the government is trying to consolidate rule of law in the Serb-dominated north. By Linda Karadaku for the Southeast European Times in Pristina — 20/01/14 EULEX is helping Kosovo police conduct an investigation into Dimitrije Janacievic’s death. [AFP] Kosovo authorities are […]

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On visa liberalization (Tribuna)

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The Minister for European Integration, Vlora Çitaku writes in her column that the most frequent question addressed to her, is “when will liberalization of visas for EU happen.” She explains that she had to answer on the same question at the Center for European Policies in Brussels, and that as usual, she answered that “we […]

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Blowing off steam to kill the truth (Koha Ditore)

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Enver Robelli wonders in his editorial today why after each political accusation, some politicians and political parties in Kosovo react using slander. The answer is obvious he says, because deep down inside, they know that critics are right. Instead of facing the presented arguments, party brigades blot people and deal with their last names, as […]

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Unblock the reform (Kosova Sot)

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The front-page editorial of this daily writes that instead of sitting down to unblock the election reform, Kosovo political parties dispute from distance with one another, on certain issues that do not bring any productivity. Some of them are against changes of the Constitution, the others rush to request political agreement to prolong the reserved […]

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Kosovo’s North Mitrovica Set to Repeat Mayor Vote (BIRN)

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Kosovo Serbs in the northern part of the divided town of Mitrovica will vote for a new mayor again in late February after the previous poll-winner refused the job. The new polling date was set for February 23 after Krstimir Pantic, the first Serb mayor elected in elections organised by the Pristina government, unexpectedly turned […]

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Nojkic: Serbs ahead of real challenges (VESTIonline)

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Serbs, those in northern Kosovo before all, will have to face the fact that they must implement Kosovo laws and that they participated in Kosovo elections and that they will have to respect it. They will also have to take a bit different oath from the one at the local lever if they turn out […]

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Lavrov: Everything needs to be done to bring stability to the Balkans (rtklive.com)

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said today that Moscow supports EU-brokered negotiations between Belgrade and Pristina. “There is no way to rewrite history, but we will do everything that we can to bring stability to the Balkans. Russia is strongly contributing to these efforts,” Lavrov was quoted as saying.

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Lunacek: No visa liberalization in 2014 (lajmi.net)

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Kosovo citizens will not be able to travel without visas this year. The European Parliament’s Rapporteur on Kosovo, Ulrike Lunacek, who is visiting Pristina, said visa liberalization will not happen this year. She also said that Kosovo citizens would be able to travel without visas in two or three years. “I will not give any […]

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Ivanovic: Kosovo status will be solved according to the “Cyprus model” (Blic)

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I believe that the status of Kosovo will be resolved by the “Cyprus model”, which means Kosovo with Serbia in the European Union, said today the president of Civic Initiatives “SDP”, Oliver Ivanovic. “The Kosovo issue will be important for a long time, and I do not think it will be only till 2020 or […]

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