Belgrade Media Report 21 March 2016
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Vucic, Dacic react to statements by Croatian officials (Tanjug/Beta/Blic)
• Joksimovic: Only Zagreb didn’t give consent for Chapter 23 (Danas)
• Djuric: Serbia is uniting on 24 April (Radio Belgrade)
• Maric: Issue of Trepca to be resolved in Brussels (RTS)
• Vulin: Serbia will respect EU-Turkey agreement (Tanjug/RTS)
• UN, EU missions involve 327 Serbian troops (Beta)
• Dittmann: Germany will request opening of two more chapters (Novosti)
• Anti-NATO protest held in Novi Sad (NSPM)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• Petronijevic: Judgment will be good, if legal (Srna)
• Political judgment against Karadzic will be devastating for B&H (Srna)
• Dodik unveils plaque with the name of “Dr. Radovan Karadzic” on student dorm (Srna)
• Dodik: Bosniaks in B&H are making the same mistakes as Serbs in SFRY (Srna)
• Status of RS – most important issue for Serbs in B&H (Srna)
• Reconstruction of power in the USC: SBB to join the government (Nezavisne)
• SDA and SBB to join forces in the local elections 2016 in the entity of Republika Srpska (Fena)
• Meeting on the electoral rules in Mostar postponed (Vecernji list)
• Democrats will restrain from attacks on DF, Demos and URA (CDM)
• Gruevski: Government’s focus remains on EU and NATO membership (MIA)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• ‘On wave of migration’: Kosovo PM admits his brother, other relatives sought asylum in EU (RT)
• Bosnian Serb Post Monopoly Leaves Firms Out of Pocket (BIRN)
• Why a stable Macedonia matters (The Washington Times)
Reporter denounces PM Mustafa to the police (Koha)
Reporter Vehbi Kajtazi confirmed in a Facebook post today that he has denounced Prime Minister Isa Mustafa to the police. Kajtazi said on Sunday that he received a threatening call from Mustafa after reporting that Mustafa’s brother had sought asylum in Germany and France to get medical treatment for his serious illness. “I denounced Kosovo’s Prime […]
Read More →PDK MP calls on PM Mustafa to dismiss Minister of Health (media)
Several media report that the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) MP Bekim Haxhiu has called on Prime Minister Isa Mustafa today to dismiss the Minister of Health, Imet Rrahmani, citing the grave situation of the healthcare system. Haxhiu wrote on Facebook: “Prime Minister you should dismiss Imet Rrahmani. Kosovo has the necessary potential and there […]
Read More →“Attacks against courts, indication that everything is getting worse” (Indeksonline)
The news site quotes Burim Ramadani, a security expert, saying that the low level of people’s trust in the judiciary is no excuse for the recent attacks against courts and state vehicles in Kosovo. “Public polls in the last couple of years have shown that people have a low level of trust in the judiciary. […]
Read More →Mustafa: My brother sought asylum due to health matters, I didn’t threaten anyone (RFE)
Most of the media is running an interview that Kosovo Prime Minister did with Radio Free Europe. Mustafa told the news agency today that his brother used illegal channels to find shelter outside Kosovo and find medical treatment for his serious illness. Mustafa also denied calling a reporter of a Pristina-based news site that first reported […]
Read More →If the Prime Minister did his work (Insajderi)
Following reports that the brother of Kosovo Prime Minister Isa Mustafa sought asylum in Germany and France during the 2015 mass migrant influx of people of Kosovo, Parim Olluri, co-founder of the investigative news website Insajderi which first published the story, writes in an opinion piece that instead of dealing with stories on the public broadcaster’s news editions, […]
Read More →OSCE: Consultations on conducting elections in Kosovo (TV Most)
Spokesman of the OSCE mission in Pristina Senad Šabović said that the consultation on the implementation of Serbian parliamentary elections in Kosovo is on-going. Šabović confirmed that the competent authorities of Serbia sent a request to the OSCE with regards to the elections which should be held on 24 April, stating that he cannot confirm how they […]
Read More →Eichhorst: April 2013 agreement was concluded in full respect of Kosovo law (EWB)
Posted on 21.03.2016. in EWB Interviews, Home page, Kosovo, Serbia “The decision of Kosovo’s Constitutional Court finding that all five chapters of the 25 August main elements/ general principles of the Association of Serb-majority municipalities are not in line with the constitution. This has angered Kosovo citizens and increased the numbers of those people supporting […]
Read More →The political situation in Kosovo aggravates the process of return (TV Most)
A two-day meeting of the Technical Working Group for durable solutions of displaced persons is being held in Pristina today, it is chaired by the Kosovo Minister for Communities and Return Dalibor Jevtic. The main topics of the meeting are security, dialogue and reintegration. The meeting is attended by representatives of the OSCE, UNHCR, Commissariat for […]
Read More →Kosovo suffers from high profile corruption (Gazeta Blic)
Kosovo continues to suffer and to be a dysfunctional state as a consequence of corruption especially at a high profile level, while there is a lack of political will to combat it officially. This was said today at a press conference organized by Kosovar Institute for Policy Research and Development (KIPRED). Ariana Qosja from the Institution, mentioned confiscation […]
Read More →NATO, Kosovo recognition not a condition for joining the EU (Dailies)
German Ambassador Axel Dittmann says his country will support opening chapters 23 and 24, on judiciary and rule of law, in the first half of this year. In an interview for Vecernje Novosti, Dittman said that NATO membership was not a prerequisite for joining the EU, and the same applies for recognition of Kosovo’s independence. Dittmann […]
Read More →Veseli’s offer: Kosovo might go for early elections (Gazeta Blic)
The President of the Assembly of Kosovo, Kadri Veseli, who is also acting leader of the Democratic Party of Kosovo, will meet this week with the Prime Minister of Kosovo to discuss a new platform for overcoming the crisis. This platform could include an agreement on early elections, reports Top Channel. According to sources of […]
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