Belgrade Daily Media Highlights 21 March
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Ballot boxes watched by Albanians (Novosti)
• Serbian Army members highly appreciated in international missions (Tanjug)
• Obradovic: Croatia presented defensive positions (RTS)
• Shogorov: Break-up of sovereign states started in Kosovo (RTS)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• RS and FB&H will not assume non-implementable obligations (Srna)
• Vukicevic: Stability of B&H in Serbia’s interest (Fena)
• Nimetz sets new round of name issue talks (Utrinski Vesnik)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Serbia’s election: A zealot in power (The Economist)
• Is Serbia Headed For ‘Orbanization?’ (RFE/RL)
• Serbia Democrats Turn on Leader After Poll Flop (BIRN)
• Croatia and the EU: Revisiting the Conditionality Principle (The Huffington Post UK)
• Organisation Profile: VMRO – DPMNE (BIRN)
• Montenegro Ruling Party Replaces Controversial Mayor (BIRN)
• Slovenia jobless rate hits highest level in a decade (EUbusiness)
KLA War Veterans reject Tribunal outside Kosovo’s legal system (Tribuna)
The war veterans of the former Kosovo Liberation Army have welcomed the adoption of the law on war veterans by parliament. Muharrem Xhemajli, leader of the KLA War Veterans, said the adoption of the law implies recognition of the liberation war. Xhemajli said there are no more than 20,000 war veterans in Kosovo and criticized […]
Read More →Mustafa: This government is a threat to itself (lajmi.net)
Isa Mustafa, leader of the biggest opposition party, the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), said today that political parties could meet next week and discuss the possible abolishment of parliament. Mustafa said the campaign by Prime Minister Hashim Thaci with state funds poses a threat to stability in the country. Mustafa said Kosovo should go […]
Read More →“Decani Monastery should back off from political requests” (kosovapress)
The leadership of the branch of Kosovo Historians’ League (KHL,) in Deçan/Decani, is following carefully the process of the property contest between the Municipality of Decan/Decani and Decan Monastery on the properties of two public enterprises, “Apiko” and “Iliria.” KHL leadership in Deçan/Decani, once again reminded the Municipal Assembly and the Mayor of the city […]
Read More →President Jahjaga met with representative of UN WOMEN, Anne Marie Esper Larsen (Bota Sot)
Kosovo President Atifete Jahjaga, met today with the representative of the UN Women for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo and Macedonia, Anne-Marie Esper Larsen. They discussed initiatives undertaken in Kosovo to advance gender equality, possibility of close cooperation and importance for Kosovo to be a participant in regional and international activities. The President valued the role […]
Read More →Where is the opposition (Koha Ditore)
Columnist Lumir Abdixhiku provides an analysis of the opposition in Kosovo, namely the two leading opposition parties, Democratic League of Kosovo and Vetevendosje. He says that at a time when the ruling party, Democratic Party of Kosovo, is busy making all sorts of pre-election promises, opposition parties are nowhere in sight. To try to explain […]
Read More →When the dream becomes a reality (Tribuna)
Mimoza Kusari-Lila, Mayor of Gjakova/Djakovica, writes in an opinion piece that the decision of the Kosovo Government to declare the municipality, alongside that of Mitrovica, free trade areas is the best she’s heard in a long while. The need to creation of a mechanism that would encourage investment has long been discussed in Kosovo, she […]
Read More →EU expects Serbia to take same stand regarding Ukraine (Tanjug)
European Parliament Rapporteur for Serbia Jelko Kacin has said that he expects Serbia to bring its position regarding Ukraine closer to the one taken by the European Union. When it comes to the Ukraine issue, I hope that Serbia will understand what it is all about and that it will take a position similar to […]
Read More →Kosovo Serbs want ideas of dismembering Serbia condemned (Tanjug)
The mayors of the northern Kosovo-Metohija municipalities have urged EU representatives to publicly condemn ideas of dismembering Serbia, voicing their disappointment at the diplomatic silence following a statement by “ethnic Albanian terrorists in southern Serbia who are threatening with secession of a part of Serbian territory.” The president of the Bujanovac municipal assembly Jonuz Musliu, […]
Read More →Faster processes with the new government of Serbia? (KIM radio)
Some representatives of Pristina authorities and the opposition believe that pace of reaching agreements in Brussels and its implementation will accelerate ones the new government of Serbia is formed. The Independent Liberal Party (SLS), which openly supports Progressives, claims that it is important for SNS to implements what they’ve been promised earlier. Even though they don’t […]
Read More →Shugurov: Toppling of sovereign states began in Kosovo (Vesti online)
Head of the Office of Russian Federation in Pristina, Andrey Shugurov said that the action of toppling state’s sovereignty began in Serbia, precisely in Kosovo and Russia will never forget what happened next. Speaking at the Faculty of Philosophy in Kosovska Mitrovica, at the promotion of the book of Jelena Guskova titled “Kosovo and Metohija […]
Read More →Ballot boxes to be watched only by Albanians (Vecernje Novosti)
If a new draft law on elections in Kosovo is adopted, displaced persons from the province won’t be able to cast their votes, warned Kosovo Serbs’ representatives. Even though such proposal has not been placed on parliament’s agenda, Serbs’ representatives warned that such draft law is not favorable from several reasons. “Besides that it prevents […]
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