Today's edition of Belgrade based daily Vecernje Novosti writes that there is less chance of fulfilling the Brussels plan to end the negotiations between Belgrade and Pristina before the beginning of 2019, the article adds that Serbia does not adhere to a dictated solution and that the discussion about demarcation is not a taboo topic any more.

The increase of assistance of the US officials and diplomats in the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue over the past months could lead to stretching of deadlines, in which a solution is expected.

The original idea of the European Union, from the beginning of this year, was that the end to the negotiations should be farthest by the end of 2018, but the words of the American ambassador in Belgrade, Kyle Scott, that it would not be wise to set deadlines to the negotiations, suggest that time barriers will be removed.

The working version of the EU Enlargement Strategy, adopted in February, dictated the deadline - the end of 2018, but the document ultimately came the wording that an agreement on normalization should be urgently achieved.

Suzana Grubjesic, the secretary general of the European Movement in Serbia, told Vecernje Novosti that it is not surprising that there should be no time limitations on the talks, and that it is obvious that some things have changed since the United States more seriously got interested in the dialogue:

- First, the correction of boundaries, i.e. delimitation, is no longer a taboo topic, and now the deadlines have become flexible. The EU, on the other hand, has its own dynamic. There are elections for the European Parliament in May, after which the European Commission will be elected, and mediators from Brussels would like to finish the dialogue by the end of their mandate. But the point of the dialogue is not to make someone successful in their mandate, but to achieve a sustainable agreement that will be accepted by both parties and for which the international community will be a guarantor.

The mandate of the President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, lasts until October 31, and on 1 November the duty will be taken over by the new composition of the European government.

In the opinion of Aleksandar Gajic from the Institute for European Studies, America sends messages about loose deadlines because it became aware that in the period that was conceived as a framework of dialogue, Serbia would not agree to what they wanted: recognition of the unilaterally proclaimed independence of Kosovo and to allow its entry into the UN.

- Hence this retraction around deadlines and the willingness to make small concessions to Serbia. It is their bait, by which they want Belgrade to emerge from the framework of Resolution 1244, which would reduce the influence of Russia and China on Serbia, Gajic said.

Speaking about the prospect of negotiations, President Aleksandar Vucic concluded in mid-August that it was obvious that they would last much longer than some have planned, with the message: "Forget that it will be done in two or three months."