Belgrade Daily Media Highlights 21 February
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Vulin: Kosovska Mitrovica residents will be guilty if their mayor is Albanian (Politika)
• Voting in Kosovo remains uncertain (Danas)
• Strbac – Serbia cannot lose the dispute in The Hague (Radio Serbia)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• Inzko expects concrete steps in the following days (Srna)
• Venizelos: There is a will to overcome name issue (Dnevnik)
• Welcome and farewell Venizelos (Utrinski Vesnik)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Venizelos Sounds Upbeat Name Dispute With Macedonia (BIRN)
• Montenegrin Minister Says NATO Sole Option (BIRN)
• Constitutional reform ‘crucial’ for Bosnia-Herzegovina (The Parliament)
• Bosnian people must ‘peacefully’ hold their politicians to account (The Parliament)
• Failure in Bosnia (TransConflict)
• Protests in a divided Bosnia (Crickey)
• Can Bosnia and Herzegovina survive its stagnation? (The Malta Independent)
Krasniqi: We will not establish a party related to a single individual (Koha online)
Kosovo Assembly Speaker Jakup Krasnqi believes in the perspective of the new political party established by him and Fatmir Limaj, despite the fact that Limaj might be missing in action. In an announcement for this daily, Krasniqi stated on Thursday that the new political party is not connected with any particular name. “We will create […]
Read More →CI SDP: Vote for Oliver Ivanovic on Sunday (Blic)
Civil Initiative SDP today urged citizens of northern Kosovska Mitrovica at their closing convention to turn out en-masse on mayoral elections on Sunday and support their candidate Oliver Ivanovic. CI SDP carried out their election campaign without their leader Olvier Ivanovic, who was arrested on 27 January under charges that he was involved in murdering […]
Read More →Defeat of election populism (Koha Ditore)
Lumir Abdixhiku writes in his regular column of this daily that the practices of election promises, as the one on increase of salaries, could have the power of populism and it could also handicap eventual opponents. However, he considers that beneficiaries and tax-payers should understand that artificial policies do not bring development. In the contrary, […]
Read More →PDK Steering Committee meets (Epoka e Re)
The Steering Committee of the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) has gathered today in a meeting at Hotel Victory in Pristina. General Secretary of the party, Basri Musmurati, has confirmed the news to Epoka e Re. Asked about what was going to be discussed at the meeting, Musmurati stated that PDK Steering Committee will discuss […]
Read More →Voting might be problematic (KiM radio)
Member of the Central Election Commission of Kosovo, (CEC) Nenad Rikalo said that resentment of Serbs from the northern part of Kosovska Mitrovica was justified, because the number of voters is increased for more than 500, and only Albanians. “The final electoral roll for the November elections listed 27,915 voters, and now it has 28,429. […]
Read More →Agreement to stabilize supply and prices in Kosovo (Blic,Beta)
The directors of the company “Metohija” and “Vita HLB Trade”, Zoran Rakic and Radovan Bugarin signed today in the municipality of Zvečan Agreement on Mutual Understanding which aims to stabilize supply and prices in Kosovo. The contract, as it was said, will allow the opening of a distribution centre with retail stores in all Serbian […]
Read More →Representatives of Serbs favor elections in autumn (RTK2)
Serbian community representatives in the Kosovo government consider that the best thing would be that parliamentary elections take place after June, in order that election reform is carried out, particularly the part which refers to communities. Deputy Kosovo Prime Minister and President of the Independent Liberal Party (SLS) Slobodan Petrovic said to RTK2 that his […]
Read More →Petrovic in “Dogovor”: EULEX deals with Ivanovic case (KiM Radio)
Deputy Prime Minister of Kosovo, Slobodan Petrovic, in a talk show “Dogovor” said that the arrest of Oliver Ivanovic, whom he visited the Detention unit in Pristina, was a surprise for everyone, because of the time when it happened. He stated that the Kosovo government does not deal with the case, but EULEX. “I expect […]
Read More →Kosovo: Great Progress, but the Job Is Not Done (Rollcall)
By Rep. Eliot Engel Feb. 20, 2014, 5:02 a.m. With so many foreign policy hot spots around the world, many Americans take the stability of Europe for granted. But as recent events in Ukraine remind us, we have yet to reach the point at which Europe is truly “whole and free.” In the Balkans, great […]
Read More →Thaci: Armed forces, the rounding up of Kosovo statehood (Lajmi)
Prime Minister of Kosovo, Hashim Thaci, visited today the “Adem Jashari” barracks in the outskirts of Pristina. He said the establishment of a Ministry of Defence and Kosovo Armed Forces present the rounding up of the state of Kosovo building process. In the visit, Thaci told members of the Kosovo Security Force that they have […]
Read More →Visas will not be lifted with this kind of governance (Kosova Sot)
The paper writes that the Member of European Parliament, Tanja Fajon, used to be optimistic when it came to visa liberalization for Kosovo but on her latest visit, she showed a little enthusiasm on the matter. To make things even more desperate, she mentioned March as being the last opportunity to achieve significant progress because […]
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