Belgrade Media Report 05 May
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
Office: Prevent attacks on Serbs (RTS)
Belgrade denies division on Djuric’s and Vulin’s Serbs (Danas)
Jevtic: Budget for displaced halved (Novosti)
Peace Park not to be removed (Tanjug)
EU: It is upon the member-states to decide whether to recognize Kosovo (Tanjug)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
Kebo: Izetbegovic does not want to fight radical Islam (Srna)
Dodik: Referendum on independence if constitutional structure is not established (RTV)
Dodik wants international commission on Srebrenica (RTRS)
CIA head: Dodik will be arrested if he tries the RS’ secession (Sarajevo365)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
Bosnia Faces New Attack Threat, Police Warn (BIRN)
Bosnian Serbs protest against Labour reform (Balkan Insight)
Montenegro Vows Crackdown After Jihadist Threats (BIRN)
New incident in Pasjane (KIM Radio)
Sixteen year-old Suncica Markovic from village Pasjane in Parteš/Partesh Municipality today was hit with the hand by an unknown man from a moving vehicle from which a loud Albanian music was heard. Incident took place in vicinity of the place where Zoran Kostic was stubbed last night. The girl said that the case was reported […]
Read More →Special court to be voted this month (Gazeta Blic)
International sources said that it is most likely the establishment of the special court will be put to vote at the Kosovo Assembly during May, namely between 21 and 25 May. “The special court will be established before 26 May which is when the UN Security Council meeting has been scheduled for,” said the unnamed […]
Read More →Minister Hyseni lobbies for Kosovo’s membership to Interpol and Europol (Kosovapress)
Kosovo’s Interior Minister, Skender Hyseni, is visiting Austria and lobbying for faster admission of Kosovo to Interpol and Europol. According to a press release issued by the Interior Ministry, Hyseni has had an opportunity to meet counterparts from Austria, Hungary, and the Western Balkans countries and has also met Interpol Secretary General Jürgen Stock and […]
Read More →Collaku: Kosovo has three weeks’ time to fulfill visa liberalization criteria (Indeksonline)
Kosovo’s European Integration Minister, Bekim Collaku, said on Tuesday that the visa liberalization for Kosovo is a priority and that this issue is to the final stage. “Kosovo has only three weeks’ time to fulfill the criteria for visa liberalization roadmap,” Collaku said. He stressed that apart from the visa liberalization priority, other priorities for […]
Read More →There is still political interference in the media in Kosovo (KosovaPress)
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Mission in Kosovo, on Monday organized a conference with media representatives to discuss the state of the media in Kosovo. Participants of the conference considered that the lack of financial sustainability of the media outlets and lack of modern business management methods are the key factors […]
Read More →Belgrade denies the division into Djuric and Vulin Serbs (Danas)
According to unofficial information of Danas, the division is so deep that in the coming weeks, six out of the nine MPs of the Serbian List in the Kosovo Parliament could establish its own parliamentary group. When among the representatives of the Serbian List, who have returned to Kosovo institutions after a two month boycott, […]
Read More →The hopeless Republic (Kosova Sot)
The front page editorial of this daily stresses that according to the most recent study of the Group for Judicial and Political Studies the level of the Kosovo people willing to emigrate remains high, even after the massive emigrations of the last months. This paper further criticizes the current government for “not managing to return […]
Read More →Žbogar: I think that there is no trust in Kosovo judiciary (RTK2)
The special court and investigation of crimes during and after conflict are conditions for normalization of relations in Kosovo, said Special Representative of the European Union in Kosovo Samuel Žbogar in RTK2 TV talk show “Razgovor”. He assessed that creation of the court is the most difficult thing for Kosovo. “I hope that Kosovo parliament […]
Read More →Budget for returnees halved (Vecernje Novosti)
Minister for Communities and Return in the Kosovo government, Dalibor Jevtic, said to Novosti that the Ministry’s budget is halved, what puts the Ministry in a very uncomfortable financial situation. From that reason Jevtic initiated a revision of the budget, aimed at providing more funds for return projects. Jevtic said that process of return was […]
Read More →The Serbian list political forgery (Vesti)
Krstimir Pantic, former Mayor of Mitrovica North and SNS deputy in the Assembly of Serbia said that Serbian List functions as political forgery. The legitimacy of the List was questionable as everybody knows that votes from the Central Serbia were forged but no one speaks about it, he said to Vesti. – Belgrade was under […]
Read More →Serbian list: Law on Cultural Heritage is not in the interests of Serbs (RTK2)
The Draft Law on the Cultural Heritage this week will be on the agenda of the Assembly of Kosovo. Serb representatives believe that the bill is not in the interests of Serbs and announce amendments. “The provisions of the law are too broad and leave a lot of space for resolving outstanding issues which relate […]
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