Next year referendum – Deletion of Kosovo from the Constitution is the toughest job (Blic)
Next year, Serbia is facing changes in the Constitution. In addition to an independent judiciary, citizens will decide in a referendum, most likely, on deleting the preamble of Kosovo and reduction of the number of MPs. Serbia will change at least two times the Constitution until entry into the EU. Election of the members of […]
Read More →Nikolic to give mandate to Vucic; Kosovo preamble to stay (B92)
President Tomislav Nikolic has said he will give a mandate to form a new government to SNS leader Aleksandar Vucic. Speaking on Sunday, he added that if the Serbian Constitution is changed in the future, he knows there will be no change to the preamble that states Kosovo and Metohija is an integral part of […]
Read More →UNMIK Headlines 12 February
• Kurz: Opposition to renounce violence (dailies)
• Government seeks to elect new president before 17 February (Koha Ditore)
• Haliti: President must be elected in accordance with Constitution (RTK)
• Ymeri: Vetevendosje ready to run with a joint ballot (Epoka e Re)
• Haradinaj: Elections are not thirst for power (Epoka e Re)
• Viets: Liberalization of visas is close (Epoka e Re)
• Ombudsperson wants Serbia to pay back pensions to Kosovo citizens (Koha)
Each decision on Kosovo must pass referendum (Politika)
Referendum, or decision on what Serbia should do, is the question which divided the Serbian Government officials, in a situation when Western countries are pressing Serbia with requests related to the Kosovo and Metohija. Serbian President Nikolic is advocating the idea of referendum, where citizens should decide. Serbian Prime Minister Vucic also recently said that […]
Read More →Vucic in hurry to write off Kosovo? (Vesti)
Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said that due to joining the EU, the Constitution of Serbia has to change and that would be necessary a broad consensus for it. On the question of the students of the Faculty of Law in Belgrade, whether the highest legal act will have to be changed because of a […]
Read More →UNMIK Headlines 29 August
• Mustafa: Association does not impose constitutional changes (Koha Ditore)
• Albanian translation strengthens Association/Community (Zeri)
• Protest against Serb pilgrimage in Gjakova/Djakovica (dailies)
• Vetevendosje throws rotten eggs at PM Mustafa’s car (Koha Ditore)
Deleting the preamble of the Constitution is the signal that the Serbian government is ready for further concessions (Kontakt Plus Radio)
Program Director of the Bureau for Social Research (BIRODI) Pavle Dimitrijevic said today that the deletion of the preamble of the Constitution of Serbia will be a signal that the Serbian government is ready for further concessions related to the Kosovo. “Deleting of preamble from the Serbian Constitution will above all have political impact. That […]
Read More →President violates Constitution: Possible procedure for the dismissal of Nikolic (Blic)
Platform of the President Tomislav Nikolic on Kosovo is not in accordance with the Serbian Constitution, it is unenforceable and for political daily use. The president’s platform is contrary to the highest act of Serbia. Interlocutors of Blic agree in this, who assess, at the very least, as unrealistic the proposals of the President of […]
Read More →The first meeting on amending the Constitution (Vecernje Novosti)
Representatives of all parliamentary parties will gather today to agree on the mode of action group which was established in order to reform the political system, which should lead to changes in the Constitution of Republic of Serbia. As has so far has been announced in several occasions, MPs will have a task to propose […]
Read More →Kosovo will be deleted from the Constitution? (Kontakt Plus Radio)
This week, the Serbian Government action team for changing the Constitution, composed of representatives of the parliamentary parties, will held the first meeting. The president of the team, and the chief of caucus of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), Zoran Babic, assures the public that the MPs would first focus on changing the electoral political […]
Read More →Preamble should be left even as “a constitutional imagination” (Blic)
Any change of the Constitution should be well planned. The parts of the Constitution should be changed, while the preamble should be left, said Professor of the Constitutional law Vladan Petrov. “My thesis does not correspond to the theses of politicians, since we are not changing the Constitution for the EU, but for us. It […]
Read More →Citizens decide on preamble (Vecernje Novosti)
Even if the citizens of Serbia would decidein referendum to possibly change the preamble of the Constitution the territorial integrity of country would not be jeopardized, claim the members of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS). However, they explained that change of the preamble is not a priority in the upcoming comprehensive reform of the political […]
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