Hahn: I expect unblocking of the dialogue (media)
The European Union Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn said after the Berlin Summit that he expects unblocking of Kosovo-Serbia dialogue and that the EU member states will support resolution of Kosovo issue. Both German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron stressed that the aim of the meeting was not finding a solution on open […]
Read More →“No progress, no failure; new talks in Paris in July” (Beta, B92)
President Aleksandar Vucic says he does not think there was “any failure” at Monday’s meeting in Berlin – adding that it’s better to talk than not to talk. Responding to question from journalists after the summit ended in Berlin, Vucic said that Angela Merkel’s and Emmanuel Macron’s engagement was very important and showed their determination […]
Read More →Serbia is ready – but it’s not up to us, says President Vucic (B92, Tanjug)
Serbian President met on Monday afternoon with EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini in Berlin. Vucic told Mogherini that Serbia was ready to, “as soon as tomorrow” to continue the dialogue, if Pristina lifted their taxes on Serbian products. “Whether that will happen is not in our hands,” Vucic told reporters in Berlin. He pointed […]
Read More →Berlin Summit Must ‘Jumpstart’ Failing Serbia-Kosovo Talks (Balkan Insight)
German foreign policy think tank expert Milan Nic says restarting the stalled Kosovo-Serbia dialogue must be the ‘minimum goal’ of the summit opening in Berlin on April 29. Milan Nic, from the Berlin-based foreign policy think tank the German Council on Foreign Relations, DGAP, says the German Chancellor was right to decide to host high-level […]
Read More →Conclusions of Franco-German co-chair of the Western Balkans meeting (media)
Most online media cover the conclusions of the Berlin Summit. Below is the full text of the conclusions as included in a press release issued by the Office of the German Chancellor. Today, Western Balkans leaders, together with the Prime Ministers of Croatia and Slovenia, and the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign […]
Read More →“Great powers focused on Western Balkans” (B92, Kurier)
“Great” powers want to deal with the Western Balkans now, according to a South East Europe expert from the University of Graz. “Both German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron, who have not always been united in their policy towards the Balkans, now want to be on same side of the rope and […]
Read More →Serbia, Kosovo agree to talks following Berlin summit (Deutsche Welle)
A Balkan summit in Berlin has ended with Serbia and Kosovo agreeing to work together to diffuse existing tensions. Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron had hoped to restart a dialogue. Serbia and Kosovo have agreed to continue talks to resolve their current conflict, the German government said in a statement early Tuesday. […]
Read More →European Union summit yields no breakthrough for stalled Serbia-Kosovo peace talks (The Washington Post)
European leaders pushed Serbia and Kosovo on Monday to step back from a potential new conflict and return to peace talks, while Kosovo’s divided political leadership came together briefly to seek help from the United States. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron held lengthy but inconclusive talks in Berlin with leaders of […]
Read More →Kosovo’s Leader: EU Is ‘Weak,’ U.S. Needed For Talks With Serbia (RFERL)
Kosovar President Hashim Thaci has called the EU “too weak” to resolve differences between Serbia and Kosovo and urged the inclusion of the United States in talks between Belgrade and Pristina. Thaci said after a meeting with EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini in Berlin that “the European Union is too weak and disunited to […]
Read More →Push for Deal Between Kosovo and Serbia Puts National Divisions on Display (The New York Times)
Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany and President Emmanuel Macron of France met the leaders of Kosovo and Serbia in Berlin on Monday, reaching toward a large prize: a path to a peace settlement between the two Balkan nations, almost 20 years after a war between them came to an end. But if they are to […]
Read More →OSCE Broadcast 29 April
Thaçi: No reconciliation without recognition by Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina (All monitored broadcasters, RTK1)
Thaçi: Internationals were misinformed that we wanted border changing (Klan Kosova)
Haradinaj in Berlin: We need to open borders, not to create new ones (Most monitored broadcasters, Klan Kosova)
New summit on Kosovo in Paris this summer (N1)Vetëvendosje activists protest in Berlin (KTV)
Political entity lottery for elections in north to be drawn on Tuesday (KTV)
KoSSev: Serbian President on Kosovo Serb media again – What did he really say?
The Serbian President, Aleksandar Vucic talked about the media in Kosovo for the third time last week. Upon returning from Beijing, last night however he did not place an emphasis on the media in the north as he did twice already, claiming that he was not referring only to the media in the north, but […]
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