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The EU slows down Serbia because of the neighboring countries (Vecernje Novosti)

Brussels will slow down the Serbia’s progress on the road to the EU with the new conditions, regardless of Serbia’s tangible progress, so that all Balkan countries could be admitted “as a package”, was confirmed for Novosti from several informal diplomatic sources. Because of this informal strategy Belgrade is faced with the additional conditions and above all with the famous 11 Berlin’s conditions. To which extent this scenario is unfavorable for Serbia is evidenced by the fact that all countries, except Montenegro, are having years-long backlog in EU integrations.

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A "Great Fear" in Kosovo (Huffington Post)

The global Muslim community is suffering a deep crisis. The failure of the "Arab Spring" led, most prominently, to horrendous bloodletting in Syria. In this carnage, both the Damascus dictatorship of Bashar Al-Assad, which is supported by the Iranian regime, and the ultra-Wahhabi "Islamic State" that opposes the civil resistance to Bashar, are guilty.

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Interior Minister Hyseni travels to Germany (Koha)

Kosovo’s Minister of Internal Affairs, Skender Hyseni, traveled to Germany on Tuesday, upon the invitation of the German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere. During his visit, Hyseni will meet with de Maiziere and will be received by the German Bundestag for Security and Internal Affairs. Hyseni is also expected to hold a lecture at the Aspen Institute.

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German ambassador: Escaping is not a solution to economic problems (Lajmi)

The German Ambassador to Kosovo, Angelika Viets, on Thursday made a visit to the municipality of Ferizaj/Urosevac, and called on people not to leave Kosovo. Viets met with the Mayor of Ferizaj/Urosevac, Muharrem Sfarca with whom she discussed the phenomena of irregular migration. “The new government of Kosovo has understood clearly the reasons that people are fleeing Kosovo, and are willing to take measures to prevent this phenomena. Escaping is not a solution to economic problems,” said Viets.

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Germany Grapples With Surge of Migrants From Kosovo (Wall Street Journal)

GERMERING, Germany— Valmir Sahiti, 25 years old, has spent the last two weeks living in a nursing home in the long-shot hope of a new life. Mr. Sahiti, an asylum-seeker from Kosovo, is staying with five relatives in a makeshift refugee center set up on several turquoise-carpeted empty floors of the home. He says he is aware the German authorities may soon send him back, but he insists the chance to live in Germany is worth the attempt. “We love Germany,” Mr. Sahiti, a Kosovar Albanian, says.

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No permanent residence in Germany through illegal channels (Kosova Press)

The President of Kosovo, Atifete Jahjaga, met on Thursday with the Special Envoy for Western Balkans at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Germany, Ernst Reichel. Jahjaga and Reichel visited Mitrovica where they discussed with the people on the issue of irregular migration. Jahjaga called on Kosovo people to stop the migration because fleeing is not the solution for economic problems. She said that all asylum applications will be rejected and everyone will be returned to Kosovo.

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Unclear if EU chapters will be opened this year (B92)

While domestic analysts believe the talks' resumption was an important step in the negotiations, EU Commissioner for Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations Johannes Hahn said that a favorable outcome of the dialogue "can contribute to chapters being opened this year." The Belgrade train is on track to Brussels, but the speed of this train depends on the success of the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina. That is how David McAllister, EP rapporteur for Serbia, described the speed of Serbia's EU integration.

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Kosovo not to be a condition for the opening of the first chapter (Danas)

The upper house of Germany’s parliament, the Bundesrat, called for an early opening of the first chapter in the negotiations on Serbia's membership in the EU without direct conditionality with the process progress in resolving the issue of Kosovo, according to a document in which Danas had access to. According to the findings of Danas, the adoption of such a proposal initiated the province of Baden-Wuerttemberg, which recently visited the Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic.

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