Direct discussions between Belgrade and Pristina on the Community/Association of Serbian municipalities (ZSO) in Kosovo will be on the agenda of the Brussels negotiations in a month's time, Head of the EU Delegation to Serbia Michael Davenport has said. “That is one of the key topics in the Brussels agreement, and the EU insists on its full implementation,” Davenport told TV Vojvodina on Monday. There have been no direct talks between Belgrade and Pristina on the topic, he noted, adding that it is the role of the European Commission and the EU Delegation in Belgrade to back the efforts for d

Director of the Serbian government's Office for Kosovo-Metohija Marko Djuric said after the talks with Pristina's delegation in Brussels that no agreement on energy was reached, as Pristina refused to meet the obligations assumed earlier. "Pristina did not accept for the community of Serb municipalities and the Electric Power Industry of Serbia to establish a new company that would deal with distribution of electricity in the north of Kosovo-Metohija and they bear the responsibility for not having much success today," he told the press in Brussels on Monday. Djuric and Aleksandar Antic, Serb

Bogosav Dabizljevic, a Serb returnee to Klina/Kline, western Kosovo, has been attacked and robbed, suffering three broken ribs in the incident, the Kosovo ministry for return and communities said in a statement on Monday. The attack on the Dabizljevic family was the third against Serb returnees in that municipality over the past two weeks. The incident took place just two days after two Serb ministers from the Kosovo government visited Klina/Kline and met with officials of the local self-government authorities and Kosovo Police following incidents in which returnees had been attacked and rob

Director of the Serbian government's Office for Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) Marko Djuric will take part in talks on the issues related to the energy sector, as part of the Belgrade-Pristina technical dialogue, in Brussels on Monday. The Djuric-led Belgrade delegation will include representatives of the Office for KiM and Minister of Energy and Mining Aleksandar Antic, the Office for KiM said. Director of the Office for Coordination Affairs in the negotiation process with Pristina Dragan Vladisavljevic and Serbia's Chief Negotiator for EU accession talks Tanja Miscevic will also participate in Mond

Attacks in northern Kosovo have become more frequent since Serbs returned to the provincial institutions and incidents are occurring on a daily basis, but the attacks must not be allowed to go unpunished, Kosovo Deputy Prime Minister Branimir Stojanovic stated commenting on the arrest of one of the attackers on a Serb citizen in Pasjane. Attacks in northern Kosovo have become more frequent since Serbs returned to the provincial institutions and incidents are occurring on a daily basis, but the attacks must not be allowed to go unpunished, Kosovo Deputy Prime Minister Branimir Stojanovic state

The Kosovo media are still subjected to political and economic pressure, Head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo Jean - Claude Schlumberger said on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day on Sunday. The Kosovo media are still subjected to political and economic pressure, Head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo Jean - Claude Schlumberger said on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day on Sunday.

Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic on Thursday said he "does not know what he can expect" from the announced platform of President Tomislav Nikolic.   Nikolic said this week that he would send a draft of the platform to Vucic and the government after May 1, the Labor Day holiday. Vucic added that Nikolic "knows about everything that is asked of Serbia on the road toward the European Union," and that he "does not hide what is talked with the EU," noting that "the topic is always Kosovo." The prime minister stated that he talked with the EU about "the formation of a community of Serb m

Serbia's Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic will take part in a Friends of Serbia meeting in Brussels on May 18, the Serbian government office for media relations said on Thursday. All the foreign ministers from EU countries will be at the meeting, and Vucic was invited by Austria's Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz and his Italian counterpart Paolo Gentiloni. The ambassadors of Austria and Italy, Johannes Aigner and Giuseppe Manzi, presented Vucic with the invitation and said that the meeting was an expression of their countries' support for Serbia's faster EU integration. Serbia has made good