Vucic meets with Orban, governments to hold joint session (Tanjug, B92)
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic on Sunday spoke with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Subotica, northern Serbia, Tanjug news agency reported. A joint session of the governments of the two countries would be held in this town on Monday. Vucic and Orban concluded that relations between the two countries are at the highest level in […]
Read More →German Foreign Minister to visit Serbia soon (BETA, TV N1)
Serbian Foreign Affairs Minister Ivica Dacic and his German counterpart Heiko Mass discussed on Friday bilateral relations between the two countries, situation in the region and possibilities for resumption of Belgrade – Pristina dialogue, BETA news agency reported quoting the statement of the Serbian Foreign Affairs Ministry. The two officials met on the sidelines of […]
Read More →Srpska Lista reacts to investigation against Todosijevic (KoSSev)
“I would like to warn Pristina that Serbian people will not allow the ethnic cleansing of Serb political representatives through the use of institutional pressure and violence and with the aim of subjugating and decapitating the Serb people in Kosovo and Metohija,“ Srpska Lista Chair Goran Rakic stated, reacting to the news that the Kosovo […]
Read More →Mirjana Markovic, Milosevic’s widow, passes away (Tanjug, B92)
Mirjana Markovic, the the widow of former Serbian and Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, died on Sunday of pneumonia, Tanjug has been able to confirm. According to unofficial information, she died in a hospital in Moscow. Dragan Radovic from the Freedom Association told Tanjug that he was in contact with the family and that Markovic died […]
Read More →Washington has backed away from the Balkans. An E.U. commissioner says it’s not a problem (The Washington Post)
Johannes Hahn, the European Union’s commissioner for neighborhood policy and enlargement negotiations, finds Washington “interesting.” Hahn was in town last week in part to discuss the Middle East, Ukraine and the western Balkans with his U.S. counterparts. The latter has recently featured that rarest of things: a resolution to a decades-old diplomatic dispute. “I think […]
Read More →Visa-Free Travel Could Make Kosovo’s Exodus Worse (Balkan Insight)
he mass exodus of young people from Kosovo, signaled by long queues forming in front of foreign embassies, has rightly spooked the country’s political class. It has prompted emergency debates in parliament and dire warnings about what this will mean for an already weak economy. In reality, no amount of emergency resolutions in parliament is […]
Read More →Deal with Serbia possible this year, says Kosovan president (The Guardian)
An agreement to normalise relations between Serbia and Kosovo along the lines of the historic deal between Greece and North Macedonia is still possible in 2019, despite severe setbacks in recent months, the president of Kosovo has said. Serbia has refused to recognise Kosovo as an independent state since its former province broke away in […]
Read More →Mirror, mirror on the wall (KoSSev)
By Tamara Skrozza When I accidentally stumbled upon the list of items found near the dead bodies in a mass grave in Batajnica 16 years ago, I thought for a moment that it was the biggest thing that could happen to a journalist, that it was a „case“ that could change the minds of people, […]
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Limaj doesn’t rule out possibility of elections in Kosovo (RTK1 & KTV)
Kosovo war rape victim visits the place where she was sexually assaulted by Serbs (GazetaExpress)
Kosovo Serb detained for war crimes against civilians (GazetaExpress)
CEC: No political entity applied for north elections yet (KTV)
Thaçi travels to Brussels, to meet with senior EU representatives (KTV)
Physical clashes in PDK Skenderaj/Srbica branch (KTV)
Belgrade Media Report 12 April 2019
United Nations Office in Belgrade
Daily Media Highlights
Friday 12 April 2019
LOCAL PRESS
• Brnabic on Berlin meeting: Our position will not change (RTS)
• Brnabic thanks Chinese Premier for political support (Tanjug)
• Dacic: Respect of agreements is prerequisite of cooperation (RTV/Tanjug)
• Dacic speaks with Maas about continuing Kosovo dialogue (RTS/Tanjug)
• Djuric: Serbs will remain united (RTS)
REGIONAL PRESS
Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Session of B&H HoR interrupted; Kristo: We had quorum to work, but not quorum to adopt decisions (BN TV)
• SDA requests formation of two new CoM ministries, SNSD rejects this (N1/ATV)
• SDS sticks to position that B&H should not be part of NATO (BN TV)
• Macron and Merkel to host conference in Berlin on 29 April with representatives of Western Balkans countries (FTV)
Croatia
• Chinese and Croatian prime Ministers tour Peljesac Bridge construction site (HRT)
• President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic on official visit to Czech Republic (HRT)
• Some would go to Brussels while others are evoking Moscow (Dnevne novine)
Montenegro
• Some would go to Brussels while others are evoking Moscow (Dnevne novine)
• For NATO, Montenegro is an important role model for the region (RTCG)
• Jackson: No country like Montenegro has made such a great progress (Pobjeda)
Republic of North Macedonia
• Zaev: Ongoing negotiations with the opposition for consensus regarding the public (Nezavisen vesnik)
Albania
• Local elections, CEC votes new acts in absence of electoral reform (ADN)
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Beijing backs Chinese firms to invest in Serbia: premier (Xinhua)
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• Thaci: Denying crimes in Kosovo is like denying the holocaust (RTK)
• Limaj: Serbia continuing Milosevic’s mindset (Kosovapress)
• Government ready to discuss all topics, including free trade (Koha)
• Thaci traveled to Brussels to meet Tusk and Hahn (Epoka)
• Norway calls for suspension of tax and resumption of dialogue (Zeri)
• Vucic: Lift the tariff in order to resume with dialogue (RTK)
• Analysts: PDK signals government’s fall (Zeri)
• No political party applied for elections in the north (Epoka)
• Verbal confrontations at PDK party election rally (media)
• Sexual violence survivor: This crime cannot be ignored any longer (media)
• Thirty days detention for Serb man accused of war crimes (Kosova Sot)
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