Belgrade Media Report 22 July 2016
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Repcekova: Serbia on stable path towards EU (Tanjug)
• Mogherini, Vucic welcome important progress on Serbia’s EU path (Tanjug)
• Stefanovic: 90 percent of action plan for Chapter 24 complete (TV Pink/Tanjug)
• Dikovic, Rebic visit troops on Serbian-Bulgarian border (Tanjug)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• OHR reviewing RS Assembly’s decision on referendum on Day of RS (Klix.ba)
• Ahmetovic initiates removal of Crnadak (FTV)
• Representatives in B&H HoR have completely opposing stances regarding coordination mechanism (FTV)
• Popic: International experts are trying to falsify data from post-census survey (Glas Srpske)
• Diplomatic offensive on Mostar starts, solution expected within next few days (Dnevni avaz)
• SDA and SNSD leadership expected to launch negotiations on issues of Coordination Mechanism and IMF arrangement (Nezavisne)
• Croatia sets up task force to monitor if Serbia is meeting benchmarks (Hina)
• Parties resume talks on way out of political crisis (Republika)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Renewable energy in the Balkans: enough bad (Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso)
• Croatia Ministers ‘Play Politics’ with Serbia-EU Negotiations (BIRN)
Serbia’s path to EU depends on Kosovo not on Croatia (Blic)
Despite Zagreb’s announcements that it will again block Belgrade’s negotiations with the EU unless it doesn’t abolish the Law on Universal Jurisdiction, the real threat to Serbia’s European integration actually lays in Chapter 35, which refers to Kosovo. Chapter 35, which has the same weight in the Negotiation Framework as recently opened Chapters 23 and […]
Read More →Kosovo Court Backs BIRN’s Transparency Demand (Balkan Insight)
A Pristina court has ruled that the Kosovo Prosecutorial Council, KPC, must disclose its disciplinary decisions against prosecutors, as requested by BIRN Kosovo, adding that withholding such information breaches Kosovo’s laws and constitution. Monday’s decision represents the second legal victory for the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network in Kosovo. In a previous instance, in October 2015, […]
Read More →Thaçi believes on unification of government and opposition after 3 August (Lajmi.net)
The President of Kosovo, Hashim Thaçi, expressed conviction that the debate on demarcation expected to be held on 3 August, will unify the government and opposition, which currently hold different positions with regards to the borderline between Kosovo and Montenegro. He told the media after the meeting with the head of Kosovo’s Olympic Committee, Besim […]
Read More →Kosovo needs a unit for inter-ethnic incidents (TV Most, RTS)
The Kosovo Government should establish special investigative units within the police to deal with ethnically motivated attacks in Kosovo, assessed the research conducted by the Non-Governmental Organizations Centre for Peace and Tolerance and Aktiv. One could have a similar structure as a unit for the preservation of Serbian cultural heritage, it is suggested in the […]
Read More →Attempted kidnapping of a boy in Novo Naselje (KIM radio)
Unknown attackers attempted kidnapping of a fifteen year old boy in Novo Naselje near Lipljan/Lipjan, learned Kontakt Plus radio. The incident occurred yesterday in the afternoon on the main road in the village. A younger man, who went out from a vehicle with tinted windows, has tried by knife to force a boy to enter […]
Read More →Tahiri: Progress reached on consolidation of institutions in the north (Klan Kosova)
Kosovo’s Minister without portfolio, engaged in the dialogue with Serbia, Edita Tahiri, said today that progress has been reached in many significant fields of the processes for establishment and consolidation of Kosovo institutions in the north. She said that preparations are being made for round up this process. Tahiri stressed that as result of the […]
Read More →Hoxhaj: Kosovo should intensify relations and benefit from CoE (Koha)
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kosovo, Enver Hoxhaj, hosted today a meeting with the recently appointed head of the Office of the Council of Europe in Pristina, Isabelle Galluci. Hoxha valued highly the constructive approach of the Office of the CoE in Pristina on significant projects and its assistance offered to Kosovo. “Kosovo is […]
Read More →OSCE Broadcast 19 July
• Zbogar: Ratification should not be done only for the visa liberalisation (KTV)
• Haradinaj threatens with protests against demarcation (Most monitored broadcasters, KTV)
• President Thaçi receives the credentials from the new ambassador of Italy (Most monitored broadcasters, RTV21)
• Ethnically motivated incidents hamper reconciliation (RTK2)
• Government denies any involvement in drafting a media regulation (KTV)
UNMIK Headlines 20 July
• Haradinaj: Current version of demarcation will fail (Epoka)
• “Government did not implement resolution on demarcation” (Kosova Sot)
• “Demarcation and Association blocked political life in Kosovo” (Epoka)
• The number of ministries to be reduced by October (Zëri)
• Kozarev: Serbia does not plan to have demarcation with Kosovo (Kosova Sot)
• Piero Cristoforo Sardi appointed new Italian ambassador to Kosovo (Zëri)
• Bahtiri: Internationals support me, the government does not (Zëri)
• Mustafa and Selimi not listening to Anti-Corruption Agency (Koha)
• Two alternatives for Brezovica ski resort (Koha)
Rašić: A team for drafting the statute of A/CSM is not formed (Radio Kontakt Plus)
The MP of the Serbian List in the Kosovo assembly Nenad Rašić said that the team, or working group, for drafting the Statute of the Association / Community of Serb Municipalities (A/CSM) had not yet been formed. Rašić said that the stories about the formation of such a team are speculation. “The media reported that […]
Read More →14 students requested verification of diplomas (RTK2)
Students who have graduated since 2001 at a faculties of Pristina University, relocated to the Mitrovica North have the option to verify diplomas that are required for the work in Kosovo institutions. Verification process will continue until 11 May 2017, and the offices in which graduates can submit the necessary documentation are in Gračanica/Graçanica and […]
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