It’s been two years since the signing of the Agreement for the Normalization of Relations between Kosovo and Serbia.
The accord was signed on April 19, 2013 in Brussels by the prime ministers of Kosovo and Serbia, Hashim Thaci and Ivica Dacic, with the brokerage of the EU head of for foreign affairs, Catherine Ashton. The text contains 15 points.

Brussels-based correspondent Augustin Palokaj writes in his opinion piece that the European Union Rule of Law Mission (EULEX) came to Kosovo with the executive mandate to investigate corruption and organized crime at the highest levels of Kosovo institutions. “Now we have a situation where investigations on corruption cases are being conducted within EULEX, and, among others, even Kosovo authorities are conducting investigations against EULEX.

BRUSSELS - The EU expects the procedure envisaged in the Brussels agreement to be respected in case of the announced visit of Kosovo Minister of Foreign Affairs Hasim Taci to Belgrade, spokesperson of the High EU representatives for foreign affairs and security policy Maja Kocijancic stated on Friday.

The opinion piece of the editor in chief of this daily, Agron Bajrami, which was initially published in the Montenegrin daily Vjesti, comes as a response to the statement of the World Bank Director, Jan Peter Olters, who criticized publicly Kosovo politicians for not being able to change the difficult socio-economic situation in Kosovo for fifteen years and for leading Kosovo into deeper crisis for their narrow interests.

It could be heard, unofficially, that the reason behind the Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic’s anger with regard to new conditions set to Serbia related to its pre-accession talks with the EU is that European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Federica Mogherini, during her recent visit to Belgrade actually presented Germany’s conditions as additional ones for opening the chapter 35, which refers to Kosovo.

Berlin’s conditions for opening chapter 35 are:

Brussels will slow down the Serbia’s progress on the road to the EU with the new conditions, regardless of Serbia’s tangible progress, so that all Balkan countries could be admitted “as a package”, was confirmed for Novosti from several informal diplomatic sources. Because of this informal strategy Belgrade is faced with the additional conditions and above all with the famous 11 Berlin’s conditions.

Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic on Wednesday said that Serbia insists that the conditions for the start of its EU accession negotiations "must be clarified."

"We are not saying we will be conducting a war with the European Union, but we need to make things clear. We are not powerful, but we cannot applaud either," the Serbian minister remarked during a news conference held in Belgrade with his Zambian counterpart.

Asked about his previous statement that Serbia does not accept new conditions in order to open first EU membership negotiations chapters, Dacic replied:

Beside  full implementation of the Brussels Agreement, Serbia will have to fulfill 11 German conditions, in order to open the first negotiation chapters with the European Union. Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic confirmed these speculations, which informal diplomatic sources are claiming for months.

“We are not clear which the conditions for continuation of integration are. In order to open the chapters, in addition to the implementation of the Brussels Agreement appeared 11 German conditions, among which some like removal of the Peace Park are not part of the Agreement.”

The European Parliament's (EP) Foreign Affairs Committee has described Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama's recent statement about unification of Kosovo and Albania as inappropriate, during a debate at the EP on the reports assessing the progress made by Bosnia-Herzegovina and Albania, Al Jazeera has published on its website.

Ivica Dacic says it is "nothing new" that Serbia faces new and more difficult conditions every time it meets "a major requirement in moving closer to the EU."

But the Serbian foreign minister also said on Wednesday he was misquoted in the media who published his alleged statement that 'even if we recognized Kosovo, we would not be accepted to the EU'."