Serbia has very important trade agreements with the EU and the former Soviet republics, but Kosovo and Albania are more important trading partners than all other countries of the former Soviet Union.
The inhabitants of Kosovo with Kosovo passports can travel through border crossings in Serbia to Croatia, Hungary, Bulgaria and Macedonia, including the airport in Nis (Nikola Tesla); and they can use the airport since 22 September, it was announced by the office of Deputy Kosovo Prime Minister, Edita Tahiri. This agreement came into force day after the Kosovo and Serbian delegation in Brussels reached an agreement on visits of Kosovo and Serbian officials to be arranged from December 1 through the liaison officers in Belgrade and Pristina, instead through the intervention of EULEX.
Special envoy from Brussels for the affair over corruption in EULEX will undergo investigation which will include as many as 18 people.
The EU High Representative Federica Mogherini has appointed an independent expert Jean-Paul Jacques for a special investigator in this case and he arrived to Kosovo. Sources in Brussels say that their work will include 18 key people in the European mission and the local special prosecutor's office.
Wide checks
"Decree on the particular mode of recognition of higher education documents and evaluation of study programs of universities in the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija, which do not perform the activity according to the regulations of the Republic of Serbia (Official Gazette of RS, No. 16/12), is not in compliance with the Constitution and law," reads the latest Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia.
The Mission of the European Union Rule of Law in Kosovo (EULEX) will be closed as soon as possible, reports last night Kosovo portal Gazeta Blic words of an unnamed German diplomat, adding that Germany in November will request a reduction of EULEX competencies. At the same time, another Kosovo portal, Gazeta Express writes that the prosecutor Maria Bamieh received threats that "cold blooded killer" would come for her, as well as that the threat came and from the EULEX.