STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS

• Mutual respect of Serbia and Montenegro (RTS)
• Silence of both Pristina and the international community about the missing in Kosovo (Tanjug)
• Dikovic meets Serbian peacekeepers in Lebanon (Beta)
• Wilhelm: Normalization of relations with Pristina and Serbia’s EU membership talks to run parallel (Tanjug/Beta)

STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS

• SDP Presidency: State leaders should get serious (Oslobodjenje)
• Greece denies international community pressure on the name issue (Utrinski Vesnik)

RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES

• Serbia pursued a wrong economic policy – Radulovic (InSerbia)
• Tensions in Serbian Ruling Party Burst Open (BIRN)
• AP Enterprise: Decaying economy, Balkans war legacy fuel domestic violence crisis in Serbia (AP)
• World Bank to Lend Serbia $490 Million After New Laws Approved (Bloomberg)
• Serbia's telecom market lags behind the most developed in CEE (Balkans.com Business News Correspondent)
• Lack of BiH judiciary reforms criticized (SETimes)
• Bosnian Serb MPs Stage Protest Boycott (BIRN)
• EBRD is providing a €10 million loan to Bosnia Herzegovina's Sberbank (Balkans.com Business News Correspondent)
• Serbia Begins a Diplomatic Offensive against Croatia (euinside.eu)
Uncivil Society: The Politicisation of Macedonia’s NGOs (BIRN)

STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS

• Odalovic: We will request Pristina to open archives of so-called KLA (Radio Serbia)
• Serbian political scene (Radio Serbia)
• Berlin hampers start of accession talks (Novosti)
• Bosic: RS wants changes (Novosti)

STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS

• Lagumdzija: Abuse of the essence of the Sejdic-Finci decission (Srna)
• Representative of the UN General Secretary for Western Balkans Expressed Support for Activities of Ministry of Defense and B&H Armed Forces (Sarajevo Times/Fena)

RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES

• Brussels Gets it Wrong on Balkan Asylum Seekers (BIRN)
• Serbia police detain hundreds in massive anti-drug sweep (AP)
• Macedonian Progress on Rights Modest, Ombudsman Says (BIRN)
• Croat nationalists seek referendum to curb Serb minority rights regarding language (AP)
• Djukanovic Pays Landmark Visit to Serbia (BIRN)

STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS

Dacic: Agreement on transfer of policemen into KPS (RTS)
Ashton: Essential progress in the implementation of the Brussels agreement (Novosti)
Ruzic: Serbia-EU negotiations on 20 December or 21 January (Novosti)
Serbia has shown it is ready to meet expectations of EU members – US (Tanjug)
Brammertz in UN SC: Serbia’s cooperation with the Hague Tribunal very good (Beta)

STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS

Conference on B&H experiences in finding missing persons: Around 30,000 missing in B&H (Oslobodjenje)

RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES

Stabilising public debt should be Serbia's top priority in 2014 – IMF official ( HYPERLINK "http://www.hispanicbusiness.com/finance/_blank" Hispanic Business' Finance Channel)
Bosnia court won't detain convicted war criminals (World Bulletin)

STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS

• New round of Belgrade-Pristina dialogue (RTS)
• Kocijancic: Full implementation of agreement – positive report from Ashton (Tanjug)
• Still uncertain - Kosovo in one or two chapters (Tanjug)
• EP: Committee asks for negotiations with Serbia in December (Politika/Tanjug)
• Skrbic: Sarajevo will not recognize Kosovo (Novosti)

STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS

• Radmanovic: PIC less and less interesting to anyone in B&H (Radio RS)

RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES

• Police detain 9 former Bosnian Serb policemen suspected of crimes against humanity (AP)
• Bosnia survivors outraged at war criminals' release (AFP)
• Bosnian Prime Minister denies plans to sell BH Telecom (CET)
• Dzenana Karup Druško: the painful importance of the ICTY (Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso)
• Time to resolve the Greece-Macedonia name game (EUobserver.com)

STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS

• Dacic satisfied about results of local elections in Kosovo (Tanjug)
• Serbia "ready for accession talks," says negotiator (B92, Novosti)
• Djilas: DS wants Serbia in EU (Tanjug)
• Serbia's cooperation with ICTY is positive (Tanjug)
• "Countries informed" about anti-Serb incidents in Croatia (B92)

STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS

• Dodik : Never against the policy of official Belgrade (Nezavisne novine/ Srna)

RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES

• EU satisfies over second round of polls in Kosovo (KUNA, 3 Dec. 2013)
• Tax Rises in Serbia's 2014 Budget Defended (BIRN, 4 Dec. 2013)
• Bosnia’s Unfinished Business (New York Times, 3 Dec. 2013)
• EU Says Progress Achieved At Marathon Bosnia Talks (RFE/RL's Balkan Service, 4 Dec 2013)
• Bosnian police sentenced for war crimes in Serbia (World Bulletin, 3 Dec. 2013)
• Hague Tribunal President faces protest in Bosnia (Netherlands Times, 3 Dec. 2013)
• Deripaska's En+ affiliate seeks EUR 100 mln from Montenegro (RAPSI, 4 Dec. 2013)
• Macedonia’s Small Parties Demand Election Reform (BIRN, By Sinisa Jakov Marusic, 4 Dec 2013)
• Croatian Anti-Cyrillic Campaigners Eye Referendum (BIRN, By Josip Ivanaovic, 3 Dec. 2013)