Aleksandar Vucic says that "we are driven into a corner" and asked, "what shall we do on December 15 when hotheads move to the north of Kosovo and Metohija." The Serbian President was addressing an unscheduled press conference late on Monday when he said he was "bringing bad news" and that even after (EU Commissioner) Johannes Hahn's trip to Pristina, "the Albanians would not even hear about the abolition of the taxes (on goods from central Serbia)." As he said, "the first bad news is that Pristina emphasized that it will not abolish the tax (recently increased by 100 percent) until Serbia r

French President Emmanuel Macron and Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic had a phone conversation on Monday afternoon. The reason was Macron's wish to postpone his visit to Serbia due to the political crisis in France, Tanjug said it learned earlier in the day. Macron was scheduled to visit Serbia on December 5-6. Later on Monday, Vucic confirmed that the French president's visit had been postponed "because of the situation in France," without specifying a new date for it.    

The European Commissioner for Enlargement Johannes Hahn paid a short visit to Belgrade and meet with the Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic. The meeting took place prior to Hahn’s trip to Pristina where he is set to discuss recent Pristina’s decision to increase taxes on goods from central Serbia and Bosnia by 100 percent, FoNet news agency reported. Statement from the President Vucic's office quoted Hahn as saying that long-lasting stability demands reconciliation and good neighborly relations.

Kosovo independence is illegal, Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades said on Friday after a meeting with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, B92 reported. During a joint press conference in Nicosia, President Anastasiades said Cyprus respects Serbia's sovereignty and territorial integrity, as well as its path towards the EU. "I have reiterated the clear and explicit position of Cyprus according to which - due to the lack of an appropriate status solution acceptable to both sides - Cyprus considers the unilaterally declared independence of Kosovo illegal.

Belgrade-based daily Blic writes today that French President Emanuel Macron is not giving up on his visit to Serbia and that he is coming to “help” with Kosovo. According to the daily, Macron would visit Belgrade on 5 and 6 December, while the protest and unrests on the streets of Paris related to the increase of fuel price, did not deter him to change his plan.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, during the meeting on Thursday, asked representatives of Serbs from Kosovo and Metohija to hold only peaceful, democratic and non-violent protests, B92 reports. The President wants this to be the case "regardless of the further moves of Pristina," Chairperson of Srpska Lista Goran Rakic said. "We met President Vucic with the fear and concern that the Serb people face in Kosovo and Metohija.

Vucic said that the Serbian authorities have no control over even one inch of Kosovo and Metohija (Kosmet), and this is why our situation is difficult, B92 reports. "Our situation is not easy at all, when you depend on the will of Pristina and whether they will respect the law or not.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic told RTS, the Serbian state and the police with certainty can claim that Milan Radoicic did not kill the leader of Civic Initiative Freedom, Democracy, Justice, Oliver Ivanovic. Vucic added, Radoicic was interrogated in Belgrade and it has been confirmed that he did not take part in the murder of Oliver Ivanovic. “He accepted and passed polygraph test, I will not talk about other things.

Aleksandar Vucic says he has never been more worried because "surveys show that Serbian citizens support maintaining the status quo in Kosovo and Metohija." "I see that Serbs and citizens of Serbia do not want to solve the problems in Kosovo and Metohija, and it seems to me that we do not understand what we are dealing with," the President told RTS. "Surveys say citizens would like the status quo to remain, which is an impossible state.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic commenting on the burning of Serbian goods in Kosovo, said that the worst kind of Nazism is in place, B92 reports.   He made these remarks in a meeting with the Serbs from Kosovo and Metohija in Belgrade today, saying nowhere else but in Kacanik could be seen burning of the goods and organizing a pyre. “It is the same as burning Jewish books in Nazi Germany.