"The leadership in Belgrade will bear terrible pressure in the upcoming weeks, which Belgrade itself may have partially induced," said journalist Milivoje Mihajlovic.

The Director of Radio Belgrade Milivoje Mihajlovic told RTS that Kosovo is further from independence than it was eight years ago, when independence was unilaterally declared. According to Mihajlovic, the authorities in Pristina have spent their time diverting attention away from the economic situation by building animosity towards the Serbs, adding that at 50 percent, Kosovo has the highest unemployment rate in Europe, almost non-existent exports, with around 150,000 people having fled Kosovo.

A long time reporter from Kosovo Milivoje Mihajlovic said that not many things changed since June, when it comes to the Brussels talks. The only thing which changed is orientation of the EU to push for solving the topic. According to him, this is not an agreement about the Community/Association of the Serb municipalities (ZSO) but an agreement that Pristina stop denying it, since the agreement on ZSO was reached in 2013. "All agreements from Brussels are fulfilled except this one.