Djuric: Hoxha is dead, and Albania has no border with Kosovo (Tanjug, B92)
Albanian Minister Pandeli Majko saying that “the border between Albania and Kosovo” will be opened starting on January 1 “lacks seriousness and responsibility.” Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Djuric reacted in this way on Thursday, adding that the statement of the Albanian minister in charge of the diaspora only served to […]
Read More →International conference on Serbian-Albanian relations (B92, Tanjug)
“Serbs and Albanians – Which Way Further?” is the theme of an international conference to be organized by Tanjug and Albanian ATA news agencies. Tanjug announced the event would take place in Belgrade on Tuesday at Hotel Metropol Palace. Relations between the two nations, the historical, political and international circumstances generating those relations today, as […]
Read More →Mihajlovic: Our competent institutions will react on customs unification of Pristina and Tirana (RTS)
Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Zorana Mihajlovic states that the competent institutions will react to the customs unification of Pristina and Tirana, stating that ahead of Serbia is not an easy period, reports Radio television of Serbia (RTS). “There are other institutions that will respond to this; it’s not an easy period for Serbia. We have […]
Read More →FM: Kosovo is “failed project, Greater Albania derivative” (Tanjug, B92)
Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic says he was not surprised by the news of the elimination of roaming charges between Kosovo and Albania. As Dacic told reporters at the Foreign Ministry on Thursday, “this is nothing new, but something that has been happening for a number of decades and centuries – the desire to establish a […]
Read More →Albanian President against division of Kosovo (Vecernje Novosti)
Albanian President Ilir Meta is against division of Kosovo and thinks that the exchange of territories is an idea of destructive people, Belgrade based daily Vecerenje Novosti reported referring to the Albanian media. According to Albanian media, Meta made these remarks during the talks with the European Council on Foreign Relations representatives including Carl Bildt. […]
Read More →EU on Rama’s statement: Political interference in neighbouring countries is not of a help (RTS)
On the occasion of the “idea” of Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama on the “joint president of Albania and Kosovo”, the European Union states that “the statements that can be interpreted as a political interference in neighbouring countries” are counterproductive both in building good neighbourly relations and progress on the path of EU integration of […]
Read More →Popovic: To declare Rama “persona non grata” in Serbia (RTS)
Statement of the Albanian Prime Minister, Edi Rama that Albania and Kosovo would have a common foreign policy and a president is directed against the peace in the region and represents a hostile act against Serbia and its people, Minister without portfolio in the Serbian Government Nenad Popovic told RTS. Popovic further said because of […]
Read More →What do we know so far about the Enlargement Strategy? (European Western Balkans)
The Enlargement Strategy, entitled “Credible Perspective of Enlargement to the Western Balkans”, will be presented on 6 February during the plenary session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg. Following of the adoption of the official text of the document by the College of Commissioners, the Commissioner for European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations, Johannes Hahn, […]
Read More →B92: EU “won’t accept countries with open issues with neighbors” (Serbian media)
EU Commissioner Johannes Hahn says 2025 is “a realistic goal for a new wave of (EU) enlargement.) Serbia and Montenegro have currently “progressed the farthest” toward that goal – but that does not mean that the two countries will definitely be the first to “cross the finish line,” Hahn told Austria’s APA agency. “There is […]
Read More →Kosovo is Serbia, says Serbia’s ambassador to Albania (B92)
Serbia will never recognize Kosovo, Serbian Ambassador to Albania, Miroljub Zaric has said. He made the statement during his visit to Skadar (Shkoder) for Orthodox Christmas on Sunday, and said that “Kosovo is Serbia”. “Kosovo is Serbia, to you it is independent, to us it is not. To us Kosovo is a part of the […]
Read More →Two Kosovo men plead guilty of plotting to attack Israeli soccer team (Reuters)
Two Kosovo men pleaded guilty on Wednesday to planning attacks at a World Cup soccer match in Albania against the visiting Israel team last year. Kosovo police arrested 19 people in November 2016 on suspicion that they had links with the Islamic State militant group and were planning attacks in Kosovo and neighboring Albania. Nine […]
Read More →Albin Kurti trump card of great powers? (Vecernje Novosti)
The rhetoric used by Self-determination MP, Albin Kurti on the unification of Kosovo and Albania, although not new has specific significance at this moment not only because of the movement’s ascent, but also of the splice of great powers’ interests, whose trump card he could be, Serbian daily Vecenje Novosti writes today. According to […]
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