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It wasn't like this in Europe even before WW1, says Vucic (B92, Tanjug)

The climate has changed in Europe, the situation in the world has never been this complicated, not even before the First World War, says Aleksandar Vucic.

The Serbian president in this way commented on rigid Dutch and French stance regarding EU candidate countries opening new accession negotiation chapters in June, and Serbia's position and chances in that context.

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Church shouldn't be making key political decisions – Vucic (B92, BETA)

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Monday that he "does not think that key political decisions should be made by the Church." Vucic also rejected the assessment that the state behaves as if the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) was "guilty for the issue of Kosovo and Metohija." "The Church should not make key political decisions, and it certainly has the right to express its opinion," the president said when asked to comment on daily Blic reporting that "the state blames only the Church for Kosovo." Vucic underlined that he "does not find the Church guilty of anything." He emphasized t

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Milic: West to think about division of Kosovo (Tanjug, Radio kontakt plus)

The western international community should think about division of Kosovo as least bad solution, treating it as a unique case, Centre for Euro-Atlantic Studies (CEAS) Director, Jelena Milic said, Serbian media reported. Milic told Tanjug news agency if the West is that much afraid of Russian influence, then unresolved Belgrade-Pristina issue “is one of the great channels of influence Russia could use.” She also added, she expected that once Serbia signed Brussels agreement, EU and NATO members state that have not recognized Kosovo, would do so, however it did not happen. “I can understand i

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"Wave of Serb nationalism possible without fair solution" (Tanjug, Rheinische Post, B92)

Aleksandar Vucic has warned that, unless a solution acceptable to the majority, there could be a new wave of Serb nationalism. In an interview for the German daily Rheinische Post, the Serbian president stressed that Serbia is in favor of a fair compromise in resolving the Kosovo issue. When the interviewer assessed that Serbia is "avoiding to recognize the independence of its former province" and when asked whether this price should be paid for the EU, he said it was "inconceivable that Serbia, in the solution of the conflict, will be left empty-handed in the end." "We need a fair compromi

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Some US plan for Kosovo exists after all? (B92)

There has been an increasing number of allegations in the media recently that Serbia had been presented with a plan for Kosovo, either verbally or in writing. Each of them, although in different ways, suggests that Serbia on the road to membership in the European Union should agree to recognize Kosovo, or at least accept that Kosovo be given a chair in the United Nations. The news that Quint (US, France, UK, Germany, Italy) ambassadors were in Washington a few days ago, as the media reported, at a briefing about Kosovo, also caused a great deal of interest.

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West gives Vucic plan for Kosovo - "and if he refuses..." (Blic, Tanjug, B92)

The United States and Western countries have submitted a plan to solve the Kosovo problem to Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, writes daily Blic. The paper says that the plan is "better for Serbia than all of the previous ones, but still unacceptable to Vucic." "The United States and Western countries have submitted their principles, but for us it is insufficiently good," an unnamed source "familiar with the details of the proposal" has been quoted as saying. "We cannot get a single municipality, the ZSO (Community of Serb Municipalities) will get a statute, but it is not known what its s

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