Balkan Addiction to Coal Worries Poznan Summit Panel (Balkan Insight)
At an environmental panel at the West Balkans summit in Poland, speakers including outgoing Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn voiced concern about the way Western Balkan countries are still building coal power plants. See at:https://bit.ly/2YyVBHx
Read More →Belgrade Media Report 05 July 2019
United Nations Office in Belgrade
Daily Media Highlights
Friday 5 July 2019
LOCAL PRESS
• Brnabic on ban: Haradinaj told me this was false news (RTS)
• Dacic: This plan and project is no longer a secret, nor is it a kind of conspiracy (Sputnik/B92/Tanjug)
• Drecun: Pristina did not opt for a peaceful resolution of problems (RTS)
• Djuric: Pristina wishes to make Kosovo and Metohija a ghetto under open skies (RTS)
• Dacic in Poznan: What is the point of the Summit if some EU leaders claim there is no enlargement (Beta)
REGIONAL PRESS
Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Czaputowicz says EU cannot be completely united without Western Balkan countries (BHT1/N1/BN TV)
• SDA criticizes Minister Bevanda for failing to attend B&H CoM session, calls on HDZ not to block institutions of B&H (Glas Srpske)
• RS parliament completes its fifth regular session by adopting number of draft laws (RTRS/N1)
• Wigemark: It is wrong entire burden of migrations fell down on USC (EuroBlic)
• Dodik: Police from FB&H will not be engaged at borders with Serbia and Montenegro (ATV)
• Pendes: There is no legal ground to deploy B&H AF at borders with Serbia and Montenegro (ATV/RTRS)
• Inzko visits Tokyo, discusses authority formation in B&H with Japanese officials (Oslobodjenje)
Montenegro
• Darmanovic: Without enlargement, the EU will face problems too (RTCG)
Albania
• DP to file criminal charges against CEC (ADN)
• Justice reform is outside politics’ hands: Murrizi declares (ADN)
German Minister: We see that Kosovo-Serbia dialogue is very difficult (media)
Germany’s Minister for Europe Michael Roth is participating at the Western Balkans Summit that is taking place in Poznan, Poland. Speaking about the dialogue between Pristina and Belgrade, Roth said that there are many things to be done. He said if politician in Pristina and Belgrade are committed, then they should overcome prejudices, just as […]
Read More →Pacolli speaks in Poznan about relations with Serbia (Indeksonline)
Kosovo’s Principal Deputy Prime Minister has said in Poznan that Serbia continuously undertook unfriendly actions towards Kosovo, arrested members of Serb community who work for the institutions of Kosovo. He explained that only Kosovo Assembly MP Slobodan Petrovic was arrested several times. It blocked Kosovo trucks and made normalization of relations impossible. Dacic accused Kosovo […]
Read More →Serbian PM Brnabic: ”Haradinaj told me that the Pristina’s ban on Serbia’s official is fake news” (Beta, N1)
Serbian prime Minister Ana Brnabic said in Poznań on Friday that her Kosovo counterpart Ramush Haradinaj told her the news on Pristina’s ban on Belgrade’s officials’ visits to Kosovo was fake news, the Beta news agency reported. Brnabic, who attends the Western Balkans Summit in Poland, as a part of the Berlin Process, said she […]
Read More →Merkel praised Serbia’s economic progress in front of all WB Summit participants (B92)
2019 Western Balkans Summit within the Berlin Process is taking place in Poznan, Poland, B92 reports. The summit is attended by large number of participants, heads of governments, foreign ministers, EU representatives and members of the civil sector from the Western Balkans region. German Chancellor Merkel had paid great attention to the economic reforms conducted […]
Read More →Serbian PM Ana Brnabic condemns threats against journalist Zana Cimili (TV N1, BETA)
Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic condemned the threats TV N1 Kosovo correspondent Zana Cimili received on social networks in Serbian, saying they were heinous and impermissible, TV N1 reported. Cimili received severe menace on social networks against her and her family’s physical integrity, BETA news agency reported late on Thursday. “The heinous threats to N1 […]
Read More →Prosecutors say they start investigation into threats to N1 reporter (Beta, N1)
Serbia’s Public Prosecutors’ Office told N1 that the Special Prosecutors for Hi-Tech crime launched a probe into the threats to N1 Kosovo correspondent Zana Cimili. Cimili received severe menace on social networks against her and her family’s physical integrity, the Beta news agency reported late on Thursday. The person who made the threats said it […]
Read More →European Leaders Seek To Reassure Western Balkans On Eventual EU Membership (RFE)
Officials from European countries sought to reassure Western Balkans nations that are hoping to join the European Union that the bloc still looks favorably on their aspirations. Michael Roth, the German minister of state for Europe, on July 4 said Berlin supports the accession process of all the six regional countries “because for us, the […]
Read More →N1 Kosovo correspondent receives threats (N1, Kontakt plus radio, Beta, KoSSev)
Zana Cimili, an N1 reporter from Pristina, received severe menace on social networks to her and her family’s physical integrity, the Beta news agency reported late on Thursday. N1 Kosovo correspondent receives threats The person who made the threats said it had “a life desire to kill an Albanian, even an Albanian child,” adding it […]
Read More →A roadmap for the Balkans (Politico)
By: Wolfgang Ischinger Europe can’t afford to wait for Serbia and Kosovo to come up with a solution. BERLIN — Two decades after the Kosovo War ended, a political settlement between Belgrade and Pristina remains elusive and frustration hangs heavy over the region. Europe can no longer afford to wait and hope the issue sorts […]
Read More →Media: The man mentioned by Vucic trained in the CIA headquarters (Vecernje Novosti, Tanjug, B92)
“I cannot speculate whether Florim Ejupi was involved in Oliver Ivanovic’s murder, but I can say that he was selected and trained in some of CIA headquarters,” Novosti daily said it got this information from a Swedish judge Christer Karphammar, who was in charge of the investigation on the bomb attack on the Nis Express […]
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