Belgrade Media Report 8 September
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Pristina’s allegations that Serbia gave up footnote (Danas)
• Krichbaum: Requirements fulfilled for opening Chapter 35 on Kosovo (RTS)
• McAllister: Time for opening chapters with Serbia (Tanjug)
• Serbia prepares plan for reaction to greater inflow of migrants (RTS)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• Jerlagic: Erasing Bosnian language a violation of B&H laws, constitution (Oslobodjenje)
• FB&H fovernment lacks 156 million KM for pensions (Dnevni avaz)
• New arrangement on the IMF loan as late as in November (Faktor.ba)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Germany and Serbia to work more closely amid refugee crisis (DW)
• Germany Curbs Balkan Rights to Claim Asylum (BIRN)
• Bosnian Schools Boycott Over Language Row Spreads (BIRN)
• Bosnian police arrest 4 war crimes suspects (AP)
Migrant crisis: Explaining the exodus from the Balkans (BBC)
Since Macedonia declared a state of emergency in its border areas at the end of August, the “Balkan Route” has become notorious. Up to 3,000 refugees, mainly from countries in the Middle East, arrive in the small south-east European country each day. A similar number cross borders into Serbia and Hungary – most of them ultimately […]
Read More →Chambers of Commerce of Serbia and Kosovo in favor of establishment of rail traffic (KoSSev)
The issue of re-establishment of the rail traffic between Kosovo and Serbia proper has been set as a precondition for ‘valorization of all economic potentials and interest of the population’ at the technical dialogue in Brussels when addressing topics that have to do with the economy. In so far talks in Brussels, and in line […]
Read More →Agreements with Serbia when Kosovo government decides (Radio Kontakt Plus)
Four agreements between Kosovo and Serbia signed in Brussels on 25 August, will come to force when Kosovo government adopts a decree about its implementation and not after they are ratified in the Kosovo parliament, said Valon Murtezaj advisor to the Kosovo prime minister Murtezaj said to portal Gazetablic that Kosovo government will address the […]
Read More →EU is not aware of vehicle insurance agreement’s suspension (Kallxo.com)
Maja Kocijancic, spokesperson to the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, said that the EU is not aware about the suspension of the agreement on vehicle insurance. She said the signatory parties have agreed to resolve all issues through an implementation committee and “this is the forum where issues relating to vehicle […]
Read More →Haradinaj unhappy with border demarcation, resigns from Foreign Affairs Committee (Koha)
The leader of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK), Ramush Haradinaj, resigned today from the Committee of Foreign Affairs, stating that this Committee has become a political instrument of Prime Minister Isa Mustafa and Deputy Prime Minister Hashim Thaci, and has lost its meaning and the role it should have. “Since in some […]
Read More →Vetevendosje to oppose agreement on telephone code “by all means” (Koha)
The Vetevendosje Movement through a press release announced that it will oppose by all means the execution of the agreement on the telephone code that was signed between Kosovo and Serbia on 25 August. “Kosovo’s path to obtain international telephone code is by applying for membership on the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in Geneva. This […]
Read More →Pacolli blames Kosovo government for not respecting reciprocity measures against Serbia (Koha/RTK)
Despite announcements that the agreement on vehicle insurance between Pristina and Belgrade would be suspended by a decision of the Kosovo Insurance Bureau, vehicles with Serbia-issued license plates have continued to enter Kosovo in an unaffected way. The head of the Kosovo delegation in talks with Serbia on the insurance policies, Rrahim Pacolli, said that […]
Read More →The three truths of the dialogue (Koha Ditore)
The paper’s Brussels-based correspondent Augustin Palokaj in an opinion piece recalls that Kosovo’s Minister without portfolio, Edita Tahiri, said that Serbia’s Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic signed an agreement with Kosovo with the acronym “Republic of Kosovo” written on the documents. “Surprisingly in the EU they say that ‘this is true’, but in the same way […]
Read More →The name “Republic of Kosovo” in a clause (Danas)
The name “Republic of Kosovo” is not stated in the agreement on the energy sector, which was recently signed by the representatives of Belgrade and Pristina in Brussels, but it is written in the so-called “disclaimer”, i.e. statement on disclaimer of liability which is located in the main text of the agreement. The part states […]
Read More →MPs of the Serbian list will face charges because they didn’t report the property (Blic)
Charges were filed against several MPs of the Serbian List in Mitrovica North, because they didn’t report their property to the Kosovo Agency for fight against corruption. Some MPs have said they had already received verdicts, according to which they are sentenced on probation and fined. “I do not have exact data which MPs were […]
Read More →Tonight without regime change for entry of vehicles on the Jarinje crossing (Blic)
The regime for vehicles with Serbian license plates did not change last night, as they were entering Kosovo after the midnight without test plates, even though Pristina previously announced that it will freeze the agreement on vehicle insurance. As reported by Tanjug’s correspondent from Jarinje, several vehicles with license plates NP, BG, KM smoothly something […]
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