EU lives two realities. One is in our declarations, where everything is all right, and the other one on the ground where nothing is well. We say that there is Schengen regime. "Schengen" implies the protection of borders, that no one can enter, and that we do not know who he is and why he comes. Does it exist in reality? It does not exist.

Thus Miroslav Lajcak, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister of Slovakia speak for the daily Politika on the migrant crisis and the European response to the crisis.

Oliver Ivanovic will present today in the Municipal Court in northern Mitrovica a defence before the EULEX three-member panel of judges.

Ivanovic is in custody and charged with serious crimes committed against Albanians in 1999 and 2000 in southern and northern Mitrovica.

Parliament of Catalonia officially launched the process of secession from Spain, which according to the Kosovo model should be finished without a referendum, in no later than eighteen months. A total of 72 MPs from ideologically different parties, united by a common goal to achieve the independence of the Spanish province, voted for a resolution that envisages the establishment of an independent republic of Catalonia, until 2017. Against were 63 MPs, but based on the previously adopted laws such decision requires a simple majority.

Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic will meet on Thursday with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Although, Russian Ambassador in Belgrade Alexander Chepurin  said there was no official announcement on Vucic's meeting with Putin - because "meetings at that level are announced only a day or two in advance," Vucic’s cabinet confirmed that the meeting is scheduled for Thursday.

Referendum, or decision on what Serbia should do, is the question which divided the Serbian Government officials, in a situation when Western countries are pressing Serbia with requests related to the Kosovo and Metohija. Serbian President Nikolic is advocating the idea of referendum, where citizens should decide. Serbian Prime Minister Vucic also recently said that he “will ask people how to deal with this issue in the future”, and in the light of the attempts to prejudge the outcome of the Brussels dialogue.

President of the Regulatory Authority of Electronic and Postal Communications in Kosovo Ekrem Hoxha said today that from Serbia has not arrived any request for a third mobile operator in Kosovo as agreed by the Agreement on telecommunications between Pristina and Belgrade. Deadline for submitting request, under the Agreement, is November 15 while the obligation of the Regulatory Authority was, until January 15, to give licence to operate in Kosovo, Hoxha said.

Director of the Serbian government's Office for Kosovo-Metohija Marko Djuric will meet with EU officials in Brussels on Monday to discuss the implementation of agreements reached so far in the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina.

Serbian company “Elektrosever” which should charge Serbs in Kosovo for power supply will receive the work permit, as expected, in one week. In accordance with the Brussels Agreement, the Serbian Power Supply Company (EPS) submitted to the Kosovo agency a request for registration of affiliated company that should provide import, export and transit of the electricity.

The Serbian government and the Ministry of Culture and Information resolutely oppose admitting Kosovo to UNESCO, Minister of Culture and Information Ivan Tasovac has said in a letter sent to UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova and over 190 culture ministers across the world.

Serbian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic believes that Serbia can impede Kosovo's UNESCO membership in November by using diplomatic means and activating as many countries as possible to support its cause.

Dacic said that this topic would not be tabled in the first place, if Resolution 1244 was honoured.