David McAllister, the European Parliament (EP) Rapporteur for Serbia told Radio Free Europe (RFE) in an interview his delegation called on Pristina authorities to revoke the decision on the 100 percent import taxes on goods from Serbia to enable the Belgrade – Pristina dialogue to resume, the Beta news agency reported on Wednesday.

Pristina will withdraw taxes on goods from central Serbia sooner or later, President Aleksandar Vucic said, but also stressed that this cost Serbia a lot.

Asked by journalists in Davos to comment on Avni Arifi, the head of the Ramush Haradinaj's cabinet, who said that the government in Pristina could temporarily suspend taxes (pending a comprehensive agreement with Belgrade), Vucic noted in a statement for Serbia’s national broadcaster RTS that this would happen sooner or later.

Prime Minister of Kosovo, Ramush Haradinaj, said that implementation of the European Reform Agenda (ERA) is of strategic interest for Kosovo. In his remarks at the meeting of the Ministerial Council for European Integration, Haradinaj said the goal behind the ERA implementation is gaining EU candidate status and ultimately EU membership. He said the relevant ministries need to fulfill all recommendations. “We need to discuss where the delays are and we need to interact and also cooperate with the Assembly of Kosovo,” PM Haradinaj noted.

Kosovo’s Minister of European Integration, Dhurata Hoxha, presented before the government ministers today key recommendations stemming from the latest European Commission report on Kosovo. Hoxha said on the occasion that a large number of recommendations will be addressed through the implementation of the Stabilisation and Association Programme and the European Reform Agenda. “The Ministry of Integration will regularly monitor and report on the implementation of the programme and ERA,” Hoxha said.

Kosovo’s Minister for European Integration, Dhurata Hoxha, said at the “Go West – Western Balkan” conference taking place in Vienna that European integration remains one of the key objectives of Kosovo’s foreign policy along with consolidation of democracy, rule of law, respect of human rights and creation of a functional market economy. She said she hoped the EU institutions would continue to provide a concrete and dynamic integration perspective for the whole of Western Balkans region.

In a meeting with the French Ambassador, Didier Chabert, Kosovo’s Minister of European Integration, Dhurata Hoxha, said that any strategy regarding the Western Balkans integration into the EU would not be complete without incorporating Kosovo.