KFOR continues to support and cooperate with the UN Mission in Kosovo (Kossev)
“KFOR will continue to support and cooperate with the United Nations, the European Union and other international actors. It will continue to support the Kosovo Police and EULEX,” said KFOR Commander, Major General Francesco Paolo Figliuolo, during a meeting with the Ambassador of Bulgaria in Kosovo, Nedialtcho Dimitrov Dantchev, reported KFOR. General Figliuolo discussed with […]
Read More →Mustafa: Visa liberalization in 2015 (Gazeta Blic)
Prime Minister Isa Mustafa said that Kosovo will be granted visa liberalization regime during 2015. In a meeting of the steering committee on visa liberalization, Mustafa reaffirmed that the issue remains a priority for the government of Kosovo. “Among other things, this process also depends on our engagement and dynamics in implementing the remaining criteria […]
Read More →Yee: Kosovo to combat corruption and organized crime (VOA)
The United States Deputy Assistant Secretary, Hoyt Yee, told Voice of America, that Kosovo needs to be more effective in the fight against organized crime and corruption, in order to facilitate economic development that would prevent irregular migration. Yee also said that special court for war crimes would help Kosovo to gain a better reputation […]
Read More →Mustafa: Migration to be prevented by opening new jobs (Gazeta Blic)
Kosovo Prime Minister Isa Mustafa, said on Friday that the issue of irregular migration should be prevented by opening new jobs. “Irregular migration is a painful reality and in this regard we need to take quick measures. We will work to open new jobs and improve the welfare of Kosovo citizens,” said Mustafa. During the […]
Read More →UNHCR: The migration of Kosovo people, to be discussed at European level (Zeri)
The spokesperson of the UNHCR in Hungary, Erno Shimun, said on Thursday that migration of Kosovo people has to do with the escape from poverty. He said that the solution of this issue should be discussed at the European level. “According to our experience, migration of Kosovo people has to do with poverty,” said Shimun. […]
Read More →The double escape (Kosova Sot)
On the front-page editorial, the paper writes that the people of Kosovo are continuing to flee poverty and humiliation by trying to illegally enter European Union countries but at the same time, they are also trying to escape from facing their serious problems. Instead of focusing on implementing election promises, government leaders use the dialogue […]
Read More →“Migration from Kosovo is organized” (B92,Beta)
Faculty for Security professor Zoran Dragisic has said that mass migration from Kosovo and Metohija to the EU is “an organized act of crime groups.” He also pointed out that the recent phenomenon “does not represent a major security threat to Serbia.” “The services should answer what is behind this mass migration, because it is […]
Read More →Drecun: It is right time for opening Chapter 35 (Tanjnug)
BELGRADE – Milovan Drecun, chair of the Serbian parliamentary committee on Kosovo-Metohija, said on Thursday that it is the right time for opening Chapter 35, on Kosovo-Metohija (KiM), in the country’s EU accession talks, which would be a boost to the process of normalizing relations between Belgrade and Pristina. Drecun said that this would reduce […]
Read More →A film about a Serb child from Prizren, Kosovo (IRS)
A full-length documentary, entitled “Milica”, speaks of the everyday life of eight-year-old Milica Đorđević, the only Serb child in the town of Prizren, in southern Kosovo, stressed the authors at the film’s presentation in Belgrade. They said that their goal was to show to the world a story of the life of the few Serbs […]
Read More →Germany to send police officers to help stem Kosovo exodus (DW)
Germany has said it plans to send a number of police officers to join efforts to stem a tide of migrants from Kosovo trying to enter the EU. The exodus is posing problems for both Germany and Kosovo. Germany’s interior ministry announced on Thursday that it was sending 20 Federal Police officers to border between […]
Read More →UNMIK Headlines 13 February
Agreement with Belgrade clashes government and opposition (Epoka e Re)
• Mustafa believes Serbian List will rejoin Kosovo institutions (dailies)
• Thaci meets Yee, calls for upholding dialogue dynamics (Epoka e Re)
• Politics with war veterans (Zeri, Kosova Sot)
• Austria to reject all asylum applications from Kosovo (Kosova Sot)
• President Jahjaga meets IOM head of mission, Baca Vaughan (Bota Sot)
• German police to patrol Serbia-Hungary border (Epoka e Re)
OSCE Broadcast 12 February
• PM Mustafa commends justice agreement; opposition continues to accuse it (All monitored broadcasters, KTV)
• Skepticism about implementation of justice agreement in the north (KTV)
• Maloku: LDK activists were murdered by Kosovo Intelligence Service (KTV)
• Accusations and counteraccusations in the race for Chief Prosecutor (KTV)
• AKJ concerned about conclusions of Reporters Without Borders report (KTV)
• Representatives of Serb IDPs met with US Embassy officials (RTK2, Klan Kosova)