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.
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.
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.
"It is very distressing that people leave," Kosovo's Foreign Minister Hashim Thaci said in Berlin on Monday during a meeting with German top diplomat Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
Kosovo’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Hashim Thaci, is expected to visit German early March on invitation of his German counterpart, Frank-Walter Steinmeier. Apart from discussing ways to deepen cooperation, Thaci will also discuss with his German host economic and trade exchange between Kosovo and Germany.
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.
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. “Albanians have a saying: If God wants it, he will do it.”
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.
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.
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.