Vucic: International community is helping Kosovo Albanians
(Klan Kosova)
Serbian Prime Minister, Aleksandar Vucic, continues to complain that the international community is helping Kosovo Albanians.
Serbian PM said that Serbia is asking for compromises in its path toward the European Union and that he still does not understand why Prishtinë/Pristina adopted the Law on Trepça.
Vucic added that he does not believe that Albanians could have done this without the help of someone, and that this is not pleasant at all.
In an interview with the Serbian daily Vecernje Novosti, the Serbian PM stated that the entire international community is silent regarding this issue. He said that they are discussing whether they will continue talks with Kosovo, or not.
He said that agreement on telecom with Kosovo is good, but the number of Serbian operator antennas needs to change.
Assembly Media Committee members visited Albanian Radio and Television
(RTK1)
In the framework of the working visit in Tirana, Albania, members of the Kosovo Assembly Committee for Public Services, Local Administration and Media together with the senior management of Radio and Television of Kosovo (RTK) also visited the Albanian Radio and Television – RTSH. The aim of this visit was to know the financing practices of the public broadcaster and experience exchange between the two institutions.
Thoma Gëllçi, RTSH Director General, informed them on the forms of financing of this public broadcaster that has an annual budget of about 20 million euros, which are secured through the state budget apparatus and advertisements.
Xhevahire Izmaku, member of the Assembly Committee, said that Kosovo should start testing a similar manner of budget collection mixed with pre-payment. According to her, within two days of work in the working group, they reached a consensus that a sustainable budget for RTK should be secured only for 2017, with a percentage from the budget, and the phase of combined financing to start in the following years.
Ilazi: Elections in EU might impact visa liberalisation decision on Kosovo
(TV21)
Elections that will be organised next year in several European Union countries might negatively impact in the decision-making process for visa liberalisation of Kosovo. This is how Deputy Minister of European Integration, Ramadan Ilazi, considers.
According to him, elections in EU countries, with special emphasis in Germany and France, might have a negative impact on decision-making for visa liberalisation.
Juvenile Justice Code being violated
(KTV)
Before completing the correctional educational measure for an offence, other measures have been sentenced to three juveniles in Lipjan/Lipljane Correctional Centre.
This is a finding of the Coalition of NGOs for Child Protection in Kosovo (KOMF) and Kosovo Rehabilitation Centre for Torture Victims (KRCT), during their six-month monitoring in the Correctional Centre.
They present application of double measures as violation of the Juvenile Justice Code.
Director of the Correctional Centre in Lipjan/Lipljane, Heset Loku, admits that there are such decisions in this Centre, while he also considers them as a violation of the law.
As Loku said, application of double measures has negatively impacted on juveniles.
Auditor finds that construction in Kosovo is a high-risk job
(KTV)
A report of the Auditor General has concluded that construction is the job with the highest risk.
The report issued few days ago concludes that Ministry of Labour and Labour Inspectorate did not manage to apply the necessary regulations on safety of employees working in construction business.
Only during last year, eight workers have died at their workplace and 44 others have been injured.
The Auditor considers that little number of inspections and lack of qualified inspectors as the problem for the great number of accidents at the workplace.
Chief Labour Inspector at the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare, Basri Ibrahimi, did not want to comment all these remarks of the Auditor. He shortly said that they have been noted about this and they will take Auditor’s remarks into account.
