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"If the Balkan doesn't join EU soon, we will regret it" (Tanjug, B92)

Outgoing EU High Representative Federica Mogherini urged the EU to maintain a strong presence in the Western Balkans achieving a clear interest of the region's EU accession, Tanjug news agency reports. In her address at the annual conference of EU Ambassadors in Brussels, she assessed that the accession of the Western Balkans in the EU is an issue of a reintegration of the whole European continent and that it is necessary for the Balkans, as well as the EU. “We have a clear interest for the whole Balkans to access the EU.

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Kocijancic: Agreement on official visits must be respected (Vecernje Novosti)

On the occasion of the new Pristina ban to Serbia's officials to enter Kosovo, thus violating the agreements reached so far, Brussels responded to the Belgrade based daily Vecernje Novosti.

- We expect all agreements reached within the framework of the EU-mediated dialogue to be respected and implemented, including an agreement on official visits - spokesman for the High Representative Mogherini, Maja Kocijancic responded to the Vecernje Novosti question to comment on the latest prohibition of the Pristina authorities.

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Vecernje Novosti: ''Mogherini's suggestion to Belgrade and Pristina: Stop lobbying until a solution is reached''

According to Belgrade based daily Vecernje Novosti, the European Union's foreign policy chief and mediator in Belgrade and Pristina's dialogue, Federica Mogherini, suggested to the two parties that the Kosovo authorities first abolish the taxes on Serbian products, and then both sides to postpone lobbying until a solution in the dialogue.

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Mogherini must do much more, EP official says (Vecernje Novosti, B92)

European Parliament Committee for Cooperation with Serbia Chairman Eduard Kukan believes that inclusion of Russia and the US in the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue would end it. The EU and its foreign policy chief had to show much more firmness and determination in the enlargement process and, above all, in the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina; the lack of leadership was particularly striking in the absence of a response to Pristina's unacceptable tariffs (on goods from central Serbia) Kukan told Belgrade-based Vecernje Novosti daily. When the interviewer remarked the impression was that no

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Vucic on Thaci and Rama: Albanians say impossible things and made Europe used to it (Vecernje Novosti, Tanjug, B92)

By constant repeating about their national unification Albanians succeeded to make it sound normal and nobody reacts to it any longer, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said commenting on the meeting of Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama and Kosovo President Hashim Thaci in Tirana yesterday. Vucic made these remarks following his meeting with EU High Representative Federica Mogherini, adding he conveyed to Mogherini his dissatisfaction, as he said, over strange occurrences between Tirana and Pristina such are the talks on the national unification of Albanians.

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Italy "understands Belgrade's position on Kosovo" (Tanjug, B92)

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic was in Rome on Wednesday where he met with Italian Deputy PM and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini. According to announcements, Vucic discussed the Kosovo-Metohija issue with Salvini, whom he sees as one of Europe's most influential politicians. Despite a differing stance on the Kosovo issue, Italy understands Serbia's position, Vucic said in Rome after the meeting.

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Western Balkans leaders to attend summit in Tirana (BETA, TV N1)

Albanian capital Tirana will host the leaders of the Western Balkans on Wednesday and Thursday at the Brdo - Brioni Summit, an initiative launched by Croatia and Slovenia in 2013 to speed up the region’s path to the European Union, BETA news agency reported. The leaders of Bosnian tripartite Presidency, Milorad Dodik, Sefik Dzaferovic and Zeljko Komsic, as well as the presidents of Montenegro and Serbia, Milo Djukanovic and Aleksandar Vucic, will attend the Summit hosted by Croatian and Slovenian presidents Kolinda Grabar – Kitarovic and Borut Pahor. The attendance of the outgoing president

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Serbia is ready - but it's not up to us, says President Vucic (B92, Tanjug)

Serbian President met on Monday afternoon with EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini in Berlin.

Vucic told Mogherini that Serbia was ready to, "as soon as tomorrow" to continue the dialogue, if Pristina lifted their taxes on Serbian products.

"Whether that will happen is not in our hands," Vucic told reporters in Berlin.

He pointed out to Mogherini that it was about European values, and that the taxes were unsustainable.

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