Albania, Macedonia, Profit from Kosovo’s Tariff War (Balkan Insight)
The high import tax that Kosovo has imposed on goods from Serbia and Bosnia has been good news for exporters from Albania and Macedonia, data show. After Kosovo imposed a tax of 100 per cent on Serbian and Bosnian imports, citing their attitude of hostility, Kosovo appears to be replacing imports from Serbia with those […]
Read More →US Balkan Allies Recognise New Venezuela President (Balkan Insight)
Two of Washington’s closest friends in the Balkan region, Albania and Kosovo, have recognised the new self-declared president of Venezuela, Juan Guaido – in line with a host of other US allies around the world. Shortly after Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido declared himself the rightful President of the country, instead of incumbent Nicolas Maduro, […]
Read More →Limaj and AHmeti to meet Mogherini again on Tuesday (Gazeta Express)
The Deputy Prime Minister of Kosovo Enver Hoxhaj, informed during a press conference that Deputy Prime Minister Fatmir Limaj, and leader of the Social-Democratic Party Shpend Ahmeti will be traveling on Tuesday for Brussels to hold the second meeting with Frederica Mogherini. During their first meeting which took place two weeks ago, they discussed the […]
Read More →Hoxhaj warns with other reciprocity measures against Serbia (Media)
Deputy Prime Minister of Kosovo Enver Hoxhaj, warned with reciprocity measures against Serbia in other fields. “This will happen if Serbia continues to violate territorial integrity of Kosovo,” Hoxhaj said. “If Serbia continues to violate territorial integrity of Kosovo, we will not lift tax, but we will continue with other creative ideas that we have, […]
Read More →Constitutional Court decides not to repeat elections in Pristina (media)
The Constitutional Court of Kosovo has decided not to repeat the runoff between Shpend Ahmeti and Arban Abrashi for Pristina mayor. As a result, former Vetevendosje Movement candidate Shpend Ahmeti will continue with his second mandate as mayor of Pristina. Ahmeti governed with Pristina for more than a year, without confirmation for his victory from […]
Read More →Arifi replies to Dacic: We will suspend tax two weeks after you recognize Kosovo (Gazeta Express)
The news portal reports that Serbia’s Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic is following carefully the statements of the officials of Haradinaj’s government on tax. He analyzed words of the chief of staff of the Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj’ office, Avni Arifi in the media, and added that Kosovo will abolish tax. However, Arifi said the tax […]
Read More →Haradinaj predicts 7% economic growth this year (Klan Kosova)
Prime Minister of Kosovo Ramush Haradinaj said Kosovo has already at 4.5 percent the highest annual economic growth in the Western Balkans and predicted the figure could go as high as 7 percent this year. “With the construction of Kosova e Re Power Plant by Contour Global, this growth is expected to reach 7%,” Haradinaj […]
Read More →Kontakt plus radio: Serbs do not believe in a unification of Mitrovica North and South
Serbs in the north of Kosovo believe that the unification of Mitrovica will not take place and asses that such a thing could seriously jeopardize their survival, reports Mitrovica North based Kontakt plus radio. Ruzica Simic from NGO Women’s Right believe that the unification of Mitrovica will not happen. ”I am deeply convinced that this […]
Read More →Tahiri: Kosovo among first in region to get Civil Code (media)
Kosovo’s Minister of Justice Abelard Tahiri said Kosovo is among the first in region to have finalized draft Civil Code which is soon expected to be sent to Assembly for approval. Tahiri said the draft code is a result of a two-year work by experts and is aimed at regulating the field of civil rights. […]
Read More →RSF expects concrete measures from Serbian president (RSF, B92)
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) expects positive changes for press freedom in the biggest Balkan country, which aspires to join the European Union. The organization said this in a press release issued after “a wide-ranging discussion with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic at the presidential palace in Belgrade” on Monday, and added: The discussion between President Vucic […]
Read More →President of the New Party of Kosovo was kept at Merdare crossing (Kossev, RTV KIM, NewPress production)
A Kosovo Serb politician was kept by members of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs at the Merdare crossing for an hour, and then he was allowed to continue his journey, reports portal Kossev quoting Caglavica based portal New press production. See more at: https://bit.ly/2HE6C66
Read More →Journalists’ Association of Serbia: To determine who hacked the sites of the ”Slobodno Srpski” and Media Center (Kossev)
The Journalists’ Association of Serbia (UNS), through its Kosovo branch requests the Kosovo police and the Prosecutor’s Office to determine who is behind the attacks on the sites of ”Slobodno Srpski” and Media Centar from Caglavica. The sites were hacked following the Journalists’ Association of Serbia in Kosovo posthumously awarded the ”Beli Bozur ” award […]
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