Belgrade Media Report 1 December 2014
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Devastating rate of return of displaced persons to Kosovo (Politika)
• Joksimovic: Germany has a different approach to Serbia-EU talks (Novosti)
• Davenport: Opening of first chapter depends on Brussels agreement (Tanjug)
• Moro: We wish one chapter to be opened by the end of the year (Danas)
• Party divisions in Bujanovac (Danas)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• Vucic and Dodik: EP resolution doesn’t contribute to regional cooperation (Oslobodjenje)
• Dodik named Zeljka Cvijanovic prime minister-designate (Srna)
• Bosic: We want changes in the RS and B&H (Dnevni avaz)
• Izetbegovic: Vojislav Seselj’s early release embarrassment for the Hague tribunal (Oslobodjenje)
• Croatian PM Zoran Milanovic arrives in Sarajevo (Oslobodjenje)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Ethnic Cleansing in Kosovo and the Rights of the Serbian Minority: Ten Years After The “March Pogrom 2004″ (Global Research)
• Hague Prosecutors Demand Seselj’s Return to Jail (BIRN)
• EU Slows Macedonia Plan for Tax Haven (BIRN)
EULEX questioning Slavisa Ristic (KIM radio)
Former mayor of Zubin Potok Municipality, Slavisa Ristic, is currently being questioned by international prosecutors in Mitrovica. EULEX spokesperson Dragana Nikolic-Solomon said to Tanjug that Ristic has voluntarily reported himself. Ristic, and incumbent Mayor of Zubin Potok Municipality, Stevan Vulovic, were out of Kosovo in the past several months. EULEX has issued arrest warrants against […]
Read More →Kosovo Expects to Form Army Soon (Balkan Insight)
Kosovo’s new parliament will vote to transform the security forces into an army as soon as it starts work next month, a senior official said. “I believe that one of the first decisions of the Kosovo Assembly will be the formalisation of the armed forces of Kosovo,” Agim Ceku, Kosovo’s Security Forces Minister, told the Epoka […]
Read More →Isa Mustafa to have the biggest government in Europe? (Koha)
Brussels-based correspondent Augustin Palokaj writes in his opinion piece that the European Commission expressed serious concerns in its last Progress Report on Kosovo over the politicization of public administration and the increase of salaries on the eve of elections. Officials in Brussels notice that Kosovo is not investing in sustainable economic development that would create […]
Read More →PDK and LDK power-sharing agreement to be announced in the coming days (Gazeta Blic, Gazeta Express)
Coalition partners, Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) and Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), namely the parties’ working groups, are set to meet today and agree on division of ministerial posts. According to Gazeta Blic, it is almost certain and that the agreement will be reached before Wednesday when the PDK leader, Hashim Thaci, is to […]
Read More →Mustafa: Coalition will break if I don’t become prime minister (Kosovapress)
The Leader of Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), Isa Mustafa, said that finalization of power-sharing agreement with Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) will happen very soon. He said his party would not enter a coalition with anyone if the post of prime minister doesn’t go to LDK. He said the government programme will be agreed […]
Read More →Levi: We didn’t recognize Kosovo’s independence, but we hail Belgrade-Pristina dialogue (Blic)
In the eve of a meeting between the Prime Minister of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, and the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Ambassador to Serbia Josef Levi said to Tanjug that it will be a meeting between two prime ministers who have the same language. Levi stressed that Vucic’s visit is important because it […]
Read More →Petrovic: There will be no quarrel over posts in the government (Dnevnik)
The leader of the Independent Liberal Party (SLS), Slobodan Petrovic confirmed for Dnevnik that the Serbian list would accept to be part of the new ruling coalition in Kosovo, while he denied that some special conditions would be placed for Hashim Thaci and Isa Mustafa. Petrovic, who has been vice president of Thaci’s previous government, […]
Read More →Kosovo has a constant number of persons infected with HIV (Radio Kosova)
On the occasion of the World Aids Day [December 1], Radio Kosova reports that in Kosovo there is a constant number of cases of people infected with HIV, nearly four to five per year, which brings Kosovo among the countries with low prevalence, but not low risk of HIV/AIDS. Dr. Izet Sadiku from the Kosovo […]
Read More →Jevtic: Encouraging decision of the Serbian Government regarding return of displaced (Vecernje Novosti)
Minister for Communities and Return in the Kosovo government Dalibor Jevtic stated that decision of the Serbian Government on allocation of bigger funds for the return of displaced persons to Kosovo in next year is encouraging. Jevtic said to Tanjug that return of displaced in 2015 mostly depends from created conditions on the ground for […]
Read More →Berlin to back chapter opening upon fulfilment of conditions (Tanjug)
BERLIN – The German government welcomed the progress Serbia made and noted that Berlin will back the opening of negotiating chapters as soon as the conditions set by the EU are fulfilled, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Berlin stated in a release submitted to Tanjug. “As soon as the conditions required by the EU […]
Read More →Germany not conditioning, has different approach (RTS, Tanjug)
Serbian Minister without portfolio in charge of European integration Jadranka Joksimovic stated on Saturday that Germany is not conditioning Serbia and that is just has a different approach to the Serbia-EU talks, and expressed the hope that a good solution would soon be found and that the first chapter in the talks would open soon. […]
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