Belgrade Media Report 1 October
LOCAL PRESS
• Vucic calls Serbs to vote for the Serb List (RTS)
• Dacic: Macron told me – he would fulfill all promised to Vucic (Blic/Beta)
• Zelenovic: Foreign observers ready to turn a blind eye to violations of democracy and human rights when it comes to Kosovo (RTV)
• Serbia to open new chapters in EU talks by end-year (Tanjug)
REGIONAL PRESS
Bosnia & Herzegovina
• B&H HoR Collegium fails to reach agreement on convening session of B&H HoR (N1)
• Dodik: We will condition authority formation with removal of foreign judges from B&H CC (Dnevni avaz)
• B&H and Finland’s Ministers of Foreign Affairs discuss bilateral relations and EU path of B&H (BHT1)
Montenegro
• Esper: Russia failed to destabilize region and Montenegro (Pobjeda)
Republic of North Macedonia
• Zaev-Tsipras meeting at the PM’s Government office: Prespa changed the reality between the two countries (Nezavisen vesnik)
• Borissov: North Macedonia can count on Bulgaria for the EU (Nezavisen vesnik)
Albania
• German Ambassador Zingraf: Solution to political conflicts must come from politics itself (Radio Tirana)
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Zaev, Tsipras urge EU to set date for start of North Macedonia’s EU talks (ekathimerini)
Read More →Kociajncic: Parties should behave in line with reached agreements (Fakte Plus, media)
Kosovo’s Ministry for Foreign Affairs decided two days ago to ban Serbian officials enter Kosovo in order to campaign. After official Belgrade’s complaint, EU Spokesperson Maja Kocijancic told FaktePlus that parties should behave in line with the reached agreements in Brussels, but in this case, also in accordance with Kosovo laws. Jetlir Zyberaj, adviser to […]
Read More →Djuric: Serbs for Pristina are second-class citizens (RTS)
Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Djuric says that Pristina, by forbidding representatives of the Serbian state from participating in the Kosovo election campaign with Kosovo Serbs, formally legalized segregation and apartheid and declared Serbs in Kosovo a second-class citizen, reports Radio Television of Serbia (RTS). Djuric adds that the fact that […]
Read More →Serbian President Vucic: “Parastate terrorizes and persecutes the Serbian List, only ‘Serbia’ is a forbidden word” (B92, RTS, N1, Tanjug)
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has called on Serbs in Kosovo, internally displaced and expelled to exercise their rights and vote for the Serbian List. He stated that in this way they would thwart the attempts to manipulate the Serbian electoral will. In a statement to Radio Television of Serbia (RTS), Vucic said that the Serbian […]
Read More →Rada v. Serbian List (Kosovo online, KoSSev, Beta)
Rada Trajkovic, a candidate of coalition Freedom said that victory of Serbian List in the October elections in Kosovo would mean that now the ”mafia is the state project of Serbia in Kosovo”, reported portal KoSSev. Trajkovic also said that the ”Serbian List is not competent to receive the support of the Serbian people”. ”With […]
Read More →Kosovo Serb opposition airs campaign video in Albanian slamming Serbian List (N1, Beta, Kosovo online)
Kosovo Serb’s opposition coalition “Freedom” candidate for Prime Minister on October 6 early elections in Kosovo Nenad Rasic published a campaign video in Albanian, calling on people to vote for the coalition to “jointly renounce a political monster called Serbian List,” the Beta news agency reported on Monday. The Serbian List is the leading party […]
Read More →Terrible things happen in election campaign (N1)
The owner of Mir (Peace) TV from northernmost Leposavic town in Kosovo Nenad Radosavljevic said that during the campaign ahead of the October 6 elections “really terrible things happen,” mentioning the case of a doctor who was fired after 36 years of work assumingly for participating at an opposition gathering,” N1 reported on Monday. Radosavljevic […]
Read More →ECAP fines political parties for breaching election campaign rules (Telegrafi)
The Election Complaints and Appeals Panel (ECAP) has so far fined six political entities for violating election campaign rules, said head of ECAP Secretariat Mul Desku. Desku said that as of 25 September when the election campaign was launched, ECAP received 49 complaints for violation of rules. “36 complaints have been reviewed, 25 confirmed, 11 […]
Read More →Former Acting U.S. Attorney General comes to Kosovo to support Veseli (media)
Several news websites report that Matthew Whitaker, former Acting U.S. Attorney General and a trusted aide of U.S. President Donald Trump, has arrived in Kosovo and is supporting Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) leader Kadri Veseli’s initiative for the fight against corruption and strengthening Kosovo’s partnership with the United States. News websites note that over […]
Read More →LDK: RTK is biased and a propaganda tool for Kadri Veseli (Express)
The Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) issued a press release today claiming that the public broadcaster RTK has “turned into a propaganda tool” for the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) since the start of the election campaign. LDK argued that the RTK news website “resembles more a webpage of the PDK than a public broadcaster […]
Read More →Kosovo’s Abandoned ‘Ghost Villages’, a Black Legacy of Conflict (Balkan Insight)
After many Serbs fled their homes in the violent aftermath of the Kosovo war in 1999, some villages in the country are now almost completely deserted, with poor economic conditions deterring most people from returning. See at:https://bit.ly/2o6bVCh
Read More →Kosovo Serb political landscape: Rada Trajkovic (KoSSev)
The essence of my politics is to break taboos, not to politically expose myself. I don’t think I will win Serb votes and support, but it is my job to unravel the politics of this evil. I am running a vampire campaign – I can only meet with individual voters at night because I am […]
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