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Belgrade Daily Media Highlights 14 February

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STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS

• Dacic: Our strength is to also say no (Beta)
• Vucic: Government doing everything for Ivanovic to be released (RTS)
• Gudeljevic: Ivanovic to remain in detention in Pristina (Tanjug)
• Kurz: Vienna wants Serbia in EU as soon as possible (Novosti)

STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS

• Cvijanovic: Deepening ethnic misunderstanding – greatest harm (Srna)

RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES

• Belgrade, Pristina Silent on War Crimes Verdicts (BIRN)
• ‘Average’ Bribe in Serbia Rises to 250 Euro (BIRN)
• From Kiev to Kosovo: a critical juncture (New Democracy)
• Bosnia By The Numbers: Bureaucracy Amid Bad Times (RFE/RL)
• Pusic: Unrest in Bosnia caused by bad economy, EU should be more efficient (dalje.com)
• Calls for expanded European Union intervention in Bosnia (World Socialist Website)
• Bosnia’s magnificent uprising: Heralding a new era of class politics? (Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal)
• Bosnia Boils Over: An Upheaval Two Decades in the Making (Organized Crime and Corruption Project)
• OSCE Gives Cautious Nod to Macedonian Media Reforms (BIRN)

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Progressives will not change the preamble of Kosovo (Danas)

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SNS: Territorial integrity within the current Constitution. LSV: We thought that SNS would never have signed the Brussels Treaty, and look what happened. DSS: And the Danas poll is propaganda. Belgrade, Novi Sad – Serbian Progressive Party opposes the eventual abolition of the Preamble to the Constitution of Serbia devoted to Kosovo, Danas was told […]

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Ivanović remains in Priština due to appeal (Blic,B92,Tanjug)

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KOSOVSKA MITROVICA — An EULEX spokesperson said on Friday that due to an announced appeal, Oliver Ivanović has not yet been transferred from Priština to Kosovska Mitrovica. Irina Gudeljevic said that the Special Prosecution of Kosovo’s international prosecutor announced he would appeal against the decision to transfer Ivanović. Earlier, an international judge of the Basic […]

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Sustainability requested for free legal aid (Radio Kosova)

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To ensure sustainability of free legal aid was the main topic of conference organized from the Agency for Free Legal Aid and UNDP, where it has been raised the need for support from Kosovo Government and local international partners Deputy Prime Minister at the same time Minister of Justice, Hajredin Kuci, said that Agency for […]

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Mitrovica: Serb to lead the court? (Vecernje Novosti)

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There is still much confusion about the solution on the organization of the judiciary in the north of Kosovo and Metohija. There is speculation that Department for litigation will be in the south. Belgrade will initial the agreement with Pristina on the organization of the judiciary in the north of Kosovo only when the last […]

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Let us prevent collapse of democracy (Bota Sot)

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Second page editorial of this daily says that many of the crimes committed by Serbs, cannot get old, especially since they were committed systematically. The question is, continue this daily, when can justice interfere in the north. According to this daily, EULEX’s two recent arrests do not give much hope, knowing that hundreds of Albanians […]

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The road to recognition: PM Thaci on statehood, corruption and Kosovo’s European dream (Euronews)

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Kosovo emerged from a bloody and brutal conflict with its neighbour Serbia some 15 years ago and has since embarked on the rocky road to reform hoping one day to be accepted by the whole international community as a fully fledged sovereign state. However, many obstacles remain in its path. Kosovo’s Prime Minister Hashim Thaci […]

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Samardzic: Dacic and Vucic capitulated in talks over Kosovo judiciary (Beta)

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Vice President of the Democratic Party of Serbia and former minister for Kosovo and Metohija Slobodan Samardzic assessed on Thursday that government of Serbia’s top officials Ivica Dacic and Aleksandar Vucic have ‘capitulated’ in negotiations over Kosovo judiciary in Brussels. Samardzic said to Beta agency that Dacic and Vucic have accepted the ‘ultimatum’ of Kosovo […]

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Is there a solution for unemployment? (KIM radio)

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Unemployment of 30,9 per cent, lack of big public enterprises, process of transition and privatization are characteristics of the economic situation in Kosovo, said Minister for Labor and Social Welfare Nenad Rasic and added that unemployment will be the main challenge for all in the period ahead. “Unemployment will most probably be the first problem […]

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“One billion rising” women protest today (Koha)

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Kosovo Women’s Network, Artpolis, Alter Habitus, and Oda Haliti, Bleona Foniqi from One Billion Rising Kosovo, have called on all women and men, girls and boys, to join a protest today at 17hrs and for an hour use their power and imagination to rise for justice for women and girls who experience violence. The protest […]

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Judiciary staff to go on strike (Telegrafi)

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Presidency of judiciary’s independent trade union has decided to enter a strike. The entire administrative staff of the Republic of Kosovo courts and prosecutions will begin the strike on 24 February. The employees are demanding pay increase of 50 percent, replacement of the civil servant status, work experience allowance, and payment of overtime. According to […]

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About the dependence of the independent state (Koha Ditore)

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Lumir Abdixhiku, writes today about the sixth anniversary of Kosovo’s declaration of independence. He considers that six years are sufficient to see in retrospective. We imagined a different perspective then, he says, because before that, for nine years we had been listening the same words on competencies, undefined status, unstable image, political priorities and other […]

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