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 →Hahn warns EU member states (Kosovo online, B92)
Johannes Hahn warned EU member states that negative decision on the date of accession negotiations for North Macedonia and Albania affects opportunities in the region, B92 reports referring to Pristina-based Gazeta Blic. European Commissioner for Enlargement Negotiations Hahb believes that this would most affect the relations between Kosovo and Serbia. “If all the efforts North […]
Read More →Serbian PM says agreement with Euro-Asian Union not political (N1, Vecernje Novosti, BETA)
Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic told Belgrade-based daily Vecernje Novosti the economic cooperation agreement that Serbia is set to sign with the Euro-Asian Economic Union is not political. PM Brnabic is scheduled to travel to Russia in 10 days to sign the agreement. “It does not run counter to the interests of the European Union, […]
Read More →“EU believes in Serbia’s European destiny” (Tanjug, B92)
European Union is Serbia’s largest donor and would never invest such energy and resources without a firm belief in its European destiny Herman van Rompuy said, Tanjug news agency reports. Former President of the European Council and Belgian Prime Minister, who will participate in a panel entitled “EU and Serbia: a common destiny?” on Tuesday […]
Read More →EU: Kosovo to form Government with respect to Constitution (Kosovo online, N1)
Maja Kocijancic, a European Union spokesperson, said that new Kosovo Government should be formed in line with its Constitution, the Kosovo online website carried the Gazeta Express report on Friday. She added the EU was looking forward to the assembling of Kosovo’s new Government, probably made up of the members of the Vetëvendosje (Self-Determination) and […]
Read More →“If China, India and Russia do not recognize Kosovo, it will not achieve statehood” (B92, Tanjug)
Newly appointed EU Foreign Minister Joseph Borrell says Belgrade-Pristina dialogue is taking too long He added that the current situation cannot be continued and that an agreement must be reached, on which he will strongly engage, and will first visit Pristina, because, he says, he already knows Serbia well. “One thing is clear: Kosovo and […]
Read More →Serbia needs agreement on Kosovo for EU integration process, says German envoy (TV Prva, Beta, N1)
The German Ambassador in Belgrade Thomas Schieb said on Wednesday that Serbia needs a comprehensive agreement with Kosovo to take what he called a decisive step in its European integration process. ”Germany wants to see the comprehensive agreement reached through a dialogue,” he told TV Prva adding that Serbia must resolve the Kosovo problem to […]
Read More →RFE: EU envoy for Belgrade-Pristina dialogue a certainty (Beta, N1)
The appointment of a European Union special envoy for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue is a sure thing and the decision will probably be announced after the EU’s future top diplomat Josep Borrell adresses the European Parliament on October 7, Radio Free Europe said on Thursday quoting unnamed diplomatic sources in Brussels. Those sources said that Borrell, […]
Read More →Western Balkans countries will fill in gap on European map, Ivan Vejvoda says
Ivan Vejvoda, the Director of the European Project at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna (IWM), said on Tuesday he believed the Western Balkans countries would become the European Union member states and that the question was not whether but when that would happen, the Beta news agency reported. Addressing the seminar organised by […]
Read More →Vucic’s ‘tight’ agenda in New York (B92, Tanjug)
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic reached New York on Monday afternoon to attend the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly Immediately upon arrival, Vucic will meet with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Namely, Merkel initiated a meeting with the President of Serbia, although he has only a day and a half in New York and […]
Read More →Blic: Indications that EU will appoint Special Envoy for Belgrade-Pristina dialogue (NMagazin)
There are indications that some countries will ask the new chief of European diplomacy, Josep Borell, to appoint a special representative to directly handle the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina, reports Belgrade based daily Blic. The daily finds out that as the main candidate for the post is mentioned Dutch Angelina Eichhorst, who has been […]
Read More →Russia is getting involved in the resolve of Kosovo issue? (Politika, Tanjug, B92)
Dusan Janjic from the Forum for Ethnic Relations says a new format of Belgrade-Pristina dialogue is likely to be created to include new players Among others, it will include Russia. In a statement given to Belgrade based daily Politika, he said that in addition to US Envoy Matthew Palmer, it is possible that Germany and […]
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