Zeri: New government without the Serbian List impossible (RTS)
Serbian national broadcaster RTS quotes today Pristina based daily Zeri that a new government in Pristina cannot be formed without the Serbian List. According to Zeri, since the Serbian List has won the most votes in the snap parliamentary elections, Albin Kurti will have to include that party in his cabinet. Albin Kurti earlier said […]
Read More →OSCE Broadcast Report 16 October
• Daka: No legal ground for total recount, commissioners ruining the process (RTK)
• Osmani and Palmer discuss relations between Kosovo and U.S. (Most monitored broadcasters, Klan Kosova)
• Kurti meets Demiri from Vakat coalition (RTKLive)
• Kosovo Security Force was not part of police operation in the north (GazetaExpress)
• Two years since the video „Dishonest People“, 21 months since the murder of Ivanovic (Kossev)
• Veseli: U.S. not in favour of territory exchange, but it supports any agreement we reach with Serbia (Summary of KTV Rubicon show)
Ashton: We did not ask Belgrade and Pristina to cross red lines (RTS, Tanjug)
Former EU High Representative Catherine Ashton under whose mediation the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue has started in 2012 said at the Belgrade Security Forum that neither side was requested to cross their red lines, RTS reports. She added the aim was to bring representatives of the both sides in the same room, at the same table. Former […]
Read More →Kosovo prosecution continues investigation of alleged poisoning (RTS)
Serbian national broadcaster RTS reports today that although it was officially stated there were no traces of poison in the blood of the Central Election Commission members who were in touch with election envelops from central Serbia, Kosovo prosecution announced it would continue investigation of this case abroad. Representative of the Kosovo prosecution Artan Grantoli […]
Read More →Kurti for NIN: “ZSO – dead letter on paper; Serbs to turn to more moderate Serb parties” (Kontakt plus radio, Danas, N1)
I am aware of the pressures Serbs are experiencing from Serbia’s parallel structures in Kosovo, one of which is the Serbian List, but the Serb community in Kosovo should gain strength and rebuild behind the more moderate Serb parties and politicians in Kosovo, Self-determination leader Albin Kurti said in an interview with Belgrade based weekly […]
Read More →Countess of Wessex: Let’s fight together stigma that harms survivors of conflict-related sexual violence (media)
Citing a release issued by the British Embassy in Pristina, several news websites report that “this morning HRH The Countess of Wessex met the President of the Republic of Kosovo, HE Hashim Thaci, at the start of her visit to Kosovo. HRH The Countess of Wessex and the President discussed the need to work together […]
Read More →Haziri: Whoever has a vote more will lead the government (media)
Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) deputy leader, Lutfi Haziri, said today that the party that has one vote more than the second-biggest party from the October 6 parliamentary elections, will have the right to the post of Prime Minister. Haziri took to Facebook to write: “The opposition won in Kosovo, not the individual or a […]
Read More →CEC decides on vote recount in additional 530 polling stations (Telegrafi)
The news website reports that Kosovo’s Central Election Commission (CEC) has decided on a vote recount in an additional 530 polling stations. Following a recommendation from the Counting and Results Centre (CRC), CEC President Valdete Daka said the recount should be done immediately. CRC Coordinator Burim Ahmetaj said there were mainly technical errors in these […]
Read More →Vasilije Bojic arrested in Mitrovica North on Wednesday released (BETA, B92)
Vasilije Bojic, son of North Regional Police Operations Chief Zeljko Bojic, arrested by Kosovo police on Wednesday morning has been released after giving a statement, BETA news agency reports. The case against him goes in regular procedure. According to Pristina-based media he was arrested in a car-wash facility that Bojic owns in Rudare village, in […]
Read More →Dacic: The hypocritical response of the British Embassy (Tanjug, RTS, Politika)
Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic described the response of the British Embassy in Pristina to President Aleksandar Vucic’s criticism as “utterly hypocritical.” Dacic told Belgrade based daily Tanjug that anyone who sits with the future prime minister of the so-called Kosovo with the Albanian flag thus supports his publicly demonstrated aspiration to create a “Greater […]
Read More →EU Enlargement: The Balkans Brexit Fallout (Balkan Insight)
Some may wish the EU would simply honour its earlier commitment to integrate the Balkans region, but the time for wishful thinking has long passed writes Timothy Less from Cambridge University. Today, European leaders will almost certainly again reject the request by Albania and North Macedonia to open negotiations on EU membership. In doing so, […]
Read More →CEPA: What’s next for Pristina?
After elections and the appointment of a new Envoy from Washington, Pristina is positioned at a crucial crossroads. Janusz Bugajski considers what’s next. See at: https://bit.ly/2puaQEJ
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