Belgrade Media Report 13 August
LOCAL PRESS
• Vucic: Talks with opposition are honorable (RTS)
• Djuric to the Quint: Serbia will be guided by its interests (RTS/Tanjug)
• Quint urges Belgrade and Pristina to resume dialogue (Tanjug)
• Serbia calls Vatican to prevent seizure of holy Serb places in Kosovo (Beta)
• Sixty years on, nobody has been held responsible for crime in Gorazdevac (Novosti/Tanjug)
• KFOR: Security situation in Kosovo and Metohija peace and under control (Danas)
REGIONAL PRESS
Bosnia & Herzegovina
• HNS calls for implementation of signed agreement and implementation of rulings of domestic and European courts regarding the Election Law (Vecernji list/HRT1)
• Spiric says avoiding to apply agreement on formation of authorities at level of B&H pushes B&H into deeper agony and stalemate (ATV)
• Reactions to agreement on formation of authorities in B&H keep on coming; Opposition: This is capitulation; Dodik: There is no membership in NATO (RTRS)
Montenegro
• Opposition’s political games do not threaten stability in the country (Dnevne novine)
• Improvement of electoral legislation not possible without DPS (Dan)
• Popovic: It’s tragicomic the opposition doesn’t take part in its own proposal (Pobjeda)
Republic of North Macedonia
• French Ambassador calls for urgent steps to tackle the corruption scandal, warns about the country’s “EU dossier” (Republika/TV 24)
• US Ambassador Byrnes demands a serious, thorough, transparent and timely investigation into the scandal (Republika)
Albania
• Meta: EU/one year wasted: Elections to be held on 13 October (ADN)
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• The Berlin Process and why the EU remains a political dwarf in the Balkans (New Eastern Europe)
Read More →Could delays to Balkan enlargement undermine the EU? (Euronews)
Dreams of entering the European Union may be fading for Albania after countries such as France and the Netherlands go cold on expanding the EU into the Western Balkans despite the European Commission’s call for the accession process to begin. See at: https://bit.ly/31CTxiJ
Read More →The European Stale Mate on the Balkan Question (The Brussels Times)
The EU finds itself at a critical strategic juncture point about how to address the integration of Balkan countries. The date set for July accession talks for Albania and Northern Macedonia, upon acceptance of the Council on the Commission’s proposal, has already passed, and the EU has postponed them to October at best. However, the […]
Read More →On the Belgrade-Kosovo Bus, Ethnic Tensions Take a Backseat (Balkan Insight)
Relations between Serbia and Kosovo may be dire, but in the bus that shuttles between the two estranged lands is a space that belies stereotypes of ethnic hatred and separation. ‘’Ibeni gati biletat!” the bus driver calls out in Albanian as the bus exits Belgrade. “Spremite kartice!” he repeats, this time in Serbian. Take out […]
Read More →Djuric on the statement of Quint member states (Serbian media)
In an extraordinary press conference today, Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Djuric said that the Quint countries made clear today the outcome of the dialogue, but that Serbia would nonetheless continue to pursue its internal policies on Kosovo and other issues driven by its own interests. Djuric agreed with part of […]
Read More →Sixteen years from the crime in Gorazdevac (KIM Radio, RTV Puls, Kontakt plus radio, Kossev)
The 16th anniversary of the crime against Serbian children in Gorazdevac was marked in the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and with a visit to the graves of the murdered boys. Due to the disagreement between the parents of the murdered young men Ivan Jovovic and Pantelija Dakic, no memorial plaque […]
Read More →Mustafa speaks after meeting Kurti (RTK)
Isa Mustafa, leader of the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), took to Facebook to inform about his meeting with the leader of the Vetevendosje Movement Albin Kurti. “We discussed at the meeting with Mr. Albin Kurti about the situation in Kosovo, especially after the resignation of the Prime Minister of the country. We agreed that […]
Read More →Vucic: ”What troubles and problems we will have at KiM in eight months!” (RTS, B92, Tanjug)
Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic told Serbian national broadcaster RTS that, despite no negotiations with Pristina, Serbia still exposed to pressures when it comes to Kosovo. “You say ‘there are no negotiations’, but people don’t ask themselves how we managed to provide food in the groceries on the north of Kosovo and Metohija. You don’t ask […]
Read More →Serbian minister’s note to Vatican over Catholic mass at Kosovo Orthodox church (Beta, N1)
Serbian Culture Minister Vladan Vukosavljevic sent a note to the Vatican protesting what he said were tensions caused by Albanian Catholic priests who served mass on the ruins of a Serbian Orthodox Church in Kosovo. Albanian Catholic priests recently served mass on the ruins of the 14th century Orthodox cathedral of St Nicholas which was […]
Read More →Hoxhaj: No compromises for Prime Minister post (media)
Kosovo’s Deputy Prime Minister and Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) deputy leader, Enver Hoxhaj, wrote in a Facebook post, that the PDK will not make any compromises on the post of Prime Minister. “The PDK is the party that enjoys the biggest trust among the citizens, and we will prove this in these elections again. […]
Read More →Veseli: Elections are inevitable (media)
Kosovo Assembly President and Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) leader, Kadri Veseli, said today that early parliamentary elections are inevitable, several news websites report. “We are in the phase of preparations, elections are inevitable. On August 22, we will make way to elections,” Veseli said. “The citizens must decide about the direction that Kosovo must […]
Read More →Quint countries call for urgent restart of talks and suspending the tariff (media)
Most news websites carry today’s press release issued by the Quint countries calling for the urgent restart of talks between Kosovo and Serbia and suspending the tariffs imposed on Serbia. The statement notes: “The governments of France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom and the United States stand united in our aim to see the full […]
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Peacekeeping
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- Measures against Kosovo on the table of EU institutions - Eunews 26/04/2024Measures against Kosovo on the table of EU institutions Eunews
- Kosovo fails to overturn power plant award - GAR 26/04/2024
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