Pristina files charges against mayors and local councilors from the North for not reporting property (KoSSev)
Charges have been filed by Kosovo Anti-Corruption Agency against mayors and most of local councilors from northern municipalities, because they failed to report their property in line with Kosovo laws. The President of the North Mitrovica local assembly, Ksenija Bozovic, explained that charges were actually filed because mayors and councilors did not have any evidence […]
Read More →Hodzic: Administrative Office might change the name next year (Kontakt Plus radio)
The director of the Kosovo government’s Administrative Office in North Mitrovica, Adrijana Hodzic, said that there is a possibility that the office might not exist next year under the same name. Hodzic said to Kontakt Plus radio that Administrative Office was established in order to serve as a provisional solution until North Mitrovica Municipality is […]
Read More →The Constitutional Court of Serbia does not want “a hot potato” (Vecernje Novosti)
The Constitutional Court rejected the proposal, submitted by Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS), for the evaluation of the constitutionality and legality of the Brussels Agreement. In such a way the Court declared itself incompetent for this issue. “The decision of the Court that the Brussels Agreement, by its nature, is not an international agreement (general […]
Read More →Oliver Ivanovic ready for trial (IRS)
The trial to Oliver Ivanovic, a Serbian politician and the president of the civic initiative “Serbia, Democracy, Justice” from Kosovska Mitrovica, charged with instigating war crimes in 1999 and 2000, should start before the EULEX court on 18 December. On that occasion a few more depositions will be read, and the witness testimonies will commence […]
Read More →OSCE Broadcast 15 December
• Government approves 2015 budget (All monitored broadcasters, KTV)
• MPs did not approve Assembly committees (All monitored broadcasters, KTV)
• Mogherini: Dialogue to resume in January (Most monitored broadcasters, RTK2, Klan Kosova)
• Serbia continues colonization of Kosovo north (KTV)
• Judicial Council not functional (Klan Kosova, KTV)
• Gjilan/Gnjilane municipality to reward individuals that report corruption (Klan Kosova)
UNMIK Headlines 16 December
• EU ministers call for establishment of special court (Koha)
• Pristina-Belgrade dialogue to resume in January (Bota Sot)
• Bitter battle expected over Association of Serb municipalities (Koha)
• Mustafa meets EU ambassadors (Zeri)
• Bosnia blocks Kosovo’s Adriatic Charter membership (Tribuna)
• HRW sends letter to EU High Representative Mogherini (Koha)