EC nominees: Hungarian new EU enlargement Commissioner, Croatian vice-president (N1)
President-elect of the European Commission (EC), Ursula von der Leyen, presented her new team and the new structure of the next EC on Tuesday, with Hungarian László Trócsány set to be a new Enlargement Commissioner and Croatia’s MEP Dubravka Suica as EC’s Vice-President for Democracy and Demography. Later in September, Parliamentary committees will hold hearings […]
Read More →Opposition leader files criminal charges against Serbia’s President in respect to Kosovo (N1)
Regional broadcaster N1 reports that the head of the opposition Dveri Movement Bosko Obradovic said he had filed criminal charges against Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic who he said violated the Penal Code in his meeting with the US senators last week, N1 reported. Obradovic specified that Vucic had breached the Articles 305, 306, 307 and […]
Read More →Trajkovic: Upcoming Kosovo elections one of the last battles for Serbs’ honour (N1)
Rada Trajkovic, the Chairwoman of the European Movement of Serbs in Kosovo told regional broadcaster N1 that the upcoming elections in Kosovo were “one of the last battles for the honour of Serbs and Serbia.” Without further explaining her words, Trajkovic also said she had information that a group of people was infiltrated from Bosnia’s […]
Read More →Vucic: They boycott elections in Belgrade but not in Pristina (Beta, N1)
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said that those who boycott the elections in Belgrade are not doing that in Pristina because, as he said, “the conditions seem to be perfect over there.” He thanked the Serbs who showed support to the Serbian List, which runs in the Kosovo elections, and he added that a lot of […]
Read More →Zeman: It would be tough, but Prague could withdraw recognition of Kosovo (Beta, N1)
Milos Zeman, the Czech Republic’s President, said on Friday he did not exclude the possibility of Prague’s withdrawal of the recognition of Kosovo’s independence, adding “it would be difficult, but still one day” not impossible, the Beta news agency reported. In an interview with Parlamentnji Listi, a pro-Russian website, Zeman, whose administrative role is more […]
Read More →Political analyst Veton Surroi says Serbian List produced by Vucic and Thaci (KoSSev, N1, KTV)
Kosovo publicist and political analyst Veton Surroi said on Friday that the Serb List was created by the Presidents of Serbia and Kosovo, Aleksandar Vucic and Hashim Thaci. The Serbian List is a Kosovo Serb party whose officials, including at least one person alleged to have criminal connections, enjoy the full support of official Belgrade. […]
Read More →Family of the murdered Oliver Ivanovic against use of his name in elections
Oliver Ivanovic’s nephew said on Thursday the family told the Election Commission in Pristina they were against the usage of the late leader’s name on any election ticket, regional broadcaster N1 reported. Aleksandar Ivanovic tweeted that his family obligation was “to protect the principles and values Oliver stood for and fought for and which for […]
Read More →Radosavljevic and Janjic on the pre-election atmosphere in Kosovo (N1)
Leposavic based TV Mir editor told regional broadcaster N1 ”the Serbian List already begun to exert pressures and blackmail citizens in northern Kosovo”. Chairman of the Main Board of the Forum for Ethnic Relations Dusan Janjic said that the Serbian List will barely win eight seats in this election, adding that the idea was to […]
Read More →Serbian Defence Minister wants demarcation with Albanians (Vecernje Novosti, N1)
Serbian Defense Minister Aleksandar Vulin told Friday’s Belgrade based daily Vecernje Novosti that demarcation between Serbs and Albanians should be implemented as soon as possible. The sooner we achieve demarcation, the sooner Serbia can focus on itself and the Serbs outside its borders, he said and added that he would like to see his stand […]
Read More →Vucic: I’m happy that Bozovic joined the Serbian List, we need unity (FoNet, N1, TV Prva)
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic told Belgrade based TV Prva that he was extremely happy that Ksenija Bozovic (CI SDP) had decided to join the Serbian List. “I am very happy because of Ksenija Bozovic and others who have joined the Serbian List and the most important is the unity which opposes the attempts of Albanians […]
Read More →Kosovo court sentences six for planning attacks on KFOR and SPC (N1, KoSSev, Beta)
The Basic Pristina Court sentenced six people to a total of 25 years in jail for planning terrorist attacks on the members of the NATO-led KFOR, the property of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) and discotheques in Serb-populated parts of Kosovo, the KoSSev website reported on Wednesday. The individual sentences vary from ten years to […]
Read More →Moscow will insist on Resolution 1244 regarding Kosovo, says Botsan-Kharchenko (FoNet, Sputnik, N1)
The Russian ambassador to Serbia Alexandar Botsan – Kharchenko said on Wednesday that if his country was involved in solving the Kosovo issue, Moscow would insist on international law and still valid UN Security Council Resolution 1244 “or everything else would be in vain,” the FoNet news agency reported. He told the Russian Sputnik media […]
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