Belgrade Media Report 13 February
LOCAL PRESS
• Serbs love those who love them – FM meets with Austrian VC (Beta/Tanjug/B92)
• Djuric: Brussels informed that we are ready to continue dialogue with Pristina (RTS/Tanjug)
• Ruzic: We need to strengthen inter-municipality cooperation (RTV)
REGIONAL PRESS
Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Dodik comments Vucic’s visit to Zagreb (ATV)
• Vucic – Grabar-Kitarovic: Croat member of B&H Presidency has to be elected by Croats (TV1)
• Wigemark: EU and IC will continue helping but will not impose solutions for changes to Law on Elections of B&H (EuroBlic)
• SDP B&H will send proposal of changes to Election Law into urgent procedure (Hayat)
• Dodik: I will not run away from candidacy for office of B&H Presidency member, if elected I will raise issue of state judiciary institutions; third entity would stabilize B&H (FTV)
• Dodik stated that arming of the RS Ministry of Interior will continue (BNTV)
• Konakovic says he left SDA because certain individuals in party protect crime, “SDA has strong influence on judiciary” (TV1)
• Security commission waits for Mektic’s report on paramilitary units (N1)
• US Embassy urges institutions to investigate potential threats (N1)
• Izetbegovic meets UN’s Dieng, underlines importance of legal framework to prevent denial of genocide (Oslobodjenje)
Croatia
• Plenkovic and Vucic discuss war reparations, MP heckles Vucic (Hina)
• Croatia and Serbia give themselves two years to solve border issues (Hina)
• Presidents meet with religious leaders (HRT)
fYROM
• Zaev-Erdogan: Support for settling the name dispute with Greece, more intensive economic cooperation (MIA)
• Turkey’s parliament voices support for Macedonia’s bid to join NATO (MIA)
• Sela is against the name of “Gorna Makedonija” without translation (Meta)
Albania
• Borders management, Albania – EU agreement signed (ADN)
• Albania, progress in freedom of expression (ADN)
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Western Balkans must break down trade barriers (Politico)
• Arms shipment to Bosnian Serbs stokes EU fears (The Guardian)
• ‘Macedonia’ in FYROM Name Unavoidable, Tsipras says (Greek Reporter)
Kosovo Releases Two Police Involved in Ivanovic Case (Balkan Insight)
A Kosovo court has released two policemen who were arrested after surveillance footage allegedly showed one picking up a bullet shell from the scene of the murder of Kosovo Serb politician Oliver Ivanovic. After a six-hour hearing, the Basic Court in Mitrovica, northern Kosovo, on Monday evening released two policemen who had been arrested on […]
Read More →Serbian Cultural Center in Pristina (KIM radio)
Nineteen years after the war in Kosovo, Pristina, in the yard of the church of St. Nicholas, the first Serbian cultural institution will be in operation. The Cultural Center will open on the Sretenje, the Serbia’s Statehood day, reports KIM radio. As announced at the Cultural Center in Gracanica, the opening of the cultural center […]
Read More →Kosovo’s New Power Plant is an Expensive Mistake (Balkan Insight)
The contract for the New Kosova coal-fired power plant is a monumental error – for which the people of Kosovo will be paying, in various ways, for the next six decades. Two weeks ago, Kosovo’s Economy Minister Valdrin Lluka published the agreement that he signed on behalf of Kosovo Government to build the country’s new […]
Read More →Belgrade informs Brussels that it is ready for dialogue with Pristina (Koha)
The Director of the Office for Kosovo at the Serbian government, Marko Djuric, met today with the chief of the OSCE mission in Kosovo, Jan Braathu. According to Serbian media, Djuric took the opportunity to inform Brussels that “Serbia is ready to continue the dialogue with Kosovo.” According to these sources, Djuric said “obstructions to […]
Read More →Vucic: Western Balkans must break down trade barriers (Politico.eu)
The future of the Balkans looks far brighter today than many would have predicted two decades ago. The Balkan wars left more than 100,000 dead and caused millions to flee their homes. The region’s economies lay in ruins, and many of our best and brightest left in droves to seek a better future elsewhere. Political […]
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