"Serbia will join EU when Kosovo joins UN" (B92)
BELGRADE -- German MPs visiting Belgrade last week told the country's officials that Serbia will not start talks to join the EU until it implements the Brussels agreement.
Report: 70,000 residents of Kosovo sought asylum in EU (B92)
"About 70,000 citizens from Kosovo have sought asylum in the EU," the Priština-based Albanian language daily Zeri is reporting on Thursday.
The newspaper described this as "a cancer" when it comes to Kosovo's visa liberalization bid.
"The inability to secure social safety in Kosovo" is what is prompting thousands of Kosovo residents to seek ways to move to EU member-states, in the hope they would be allowed to stay, according to the daily.
"Integration experts" have also been quoted as saying that Kosovo's institutions should be worried, as the development "could have a negative influence o
Germany insists on conditions put before Serbia (B92)
German parliamentarians led by CDU deputy Andreas Schockenhoff have said in Belgrade that Germany persists in the seven demands it put before Serbia.
"We asked when the opening of the first (EU) negotiation chapter was expected and we got the answer that they stood by the seven demands.
Office for Kosovo head prevented from entering Kosovo (B92)
Serbian Government's Office for Kosovo and Metohija Director Marko Đurić was on Tuesday prevented from entering the territory of the province.
He was turned back by the Kosovo police, from the Jarinje administrative crossing.
Liaison officer says ban was "grave violation of deal" (B92,Tanjug,Politika,Blic)
BELGRADE -- Dejan Pavićević says the fact he was banned from entering Kosovo constitutes "serious obstruction of the implementation of what has been agreed in Brussels."
"Belgrade continues to provide economic aid to Serbs" (B92)
BELGRADE -- Belgrade continues to financially help Serbs in Kosovo, but that support should go to development, rather that serve to "pay them to stay (in Kosovo)."
Barricade removed, bridge remains closed to traffic (B92)
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA -- KFOR has welcomed the removal of a barricade built on the main bridge in Kosovska Mitrovica as a positive step that can be beneficial to reconciliation.
Merkel: Germany not against EU enlargement (B92)
BERLIN -- German Chancellor Angel Merkel has said she is "looking forward to the visit by Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić to Berlin."
Office head: Serbs to "cross out" Kosovo "drawing" (B92)
BELGRADE -- Elections in Kosovo are "a job of national importance for Serbia and an important form of political struggle," says Office for Kosovo Director Marko Đurić.
EU doors "open to all Western Balkan states" (B92)
VIENNA -- Austria's FM Sebastian Kurz has said that 100 years since the beginning of the First World War "we must work together to create a common European future."