BRUSSELS -- Germany "is not hindering Serbia on its European integration path but it still insists on respect of fundamental enlargement process principles."

Authorities in Pristina will request war reparations from Belgrade, shares of Kosovo enterprises that used to have branches in the Serbia proper and distribution of military premises and embassies of the former SFRY, Novosti learned unofficially. Those requests, along with the issue of membership in international organizations, will be placed at the Brussels’ table by Kosovo Albanians in the course of continued dialogue, what could practically put talks in an impasse, because even starting discussion over these topics would practically mean recognition of indep

With regard to Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic’s formulation of a new platform for Kosovo, a senior research fellow on the politics of south east Europe at the London School of Economics, James Ker-Lindsay, claims that ‘it won’t have the effect’. “If it doesn’t mean that Serbia is called to recognize Kosovo as an independent state, it will simply be ignored in Brussels. The standing point of majority EU member states is that the time has come for review of the status of Kosovo.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has assessed that many obstacles are in Serbia’s path toward the EU membership, including the issue of Kosovo, and he invited Brussels to no stipulate Serbia’s association process with severing the ties with Moscow.

Koha Ditore’s Brussels based correspondent, Augustin Palokaj, writes that many officials in Brussels and other capitals make many statements and praise results reached by the dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia. “One gets the impression that this dialogue not only resolved the vital issues for the people of Kosovo, but it also saved the world from the third world war. The bitter truth stands in the fact that this dialogue has resolved a few problems, however it caused more obscurity and illusions,” writes Palokaj.