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Germany doesn’t grant asylum to Kosovo migrants (KosovaPress)

The German Ambassador to Kosovo, Angleika Viets, said on Thursday that Kosovo people who are migrating abroad will not receive asylum in Germany, because according to her,  economic situation is not a reason to get asylum. Viets said that Germany will refuse asylum applications, even though the number of applicants has increased.  Viets also added that Serbia and any other country that claims to enter the European Union has to normalize their neighborly relations.

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Government informs EU on Serbia’s illegal interventions in Kosovo (Koha)

The government of Kosovo sent an official note to the European Union on Monday about Serbia’s continuous illegal interventions in Kosovo and the violation of the Brussels Agreement with the decision to extend parallel structures in the municipality of Shterpce/Strpce. Kosovo’s Minister without portfolio, Edita Tahiri, sent a letter to EU official Fernando Gentilini, calling on the EU to take all measures to prevent Serbia from interfering through its parallel structures in Kosovo.

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The Association of Kosovo Serb Municipalities – a Republika Srpska or a Non-Governmental Organization? (Transconflict)

Disagreements persist about whether the Association of Serb-majority Municipalities in Kosovo should be a non-governmental organization aiming to facilitate cooperation between Serb-majority municipalities in specific areas, or whether it should be a political body with decision-making powers. Pristina and Belgrade agreed in 2013 in Brussels on the formation of an association of Serb-majority municipalities, but not on its mandate. Two years later, the bargaining process over the Association’s authority is about to begin.

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Kosovo Serb arrested for smuggling of migrants (RTKLive)

One individual was arrested yesterday by Kosovo Police (KP) in the northern border crossing point, Bernjak. RTK reports that the individual, of Serbian nationality from Kosovo, is suspected of smuggling of migrants. RTK writes that according to sources within KP,  the suspect had in his car two Albanian men who were allegedly to be smuggled towards European countries. The suspect is taken into custody under the prosecutor’s order.

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Serbian President Demands Kosovo Referendum (Balkan Insight)

In a sign of growing tension between him and the government, Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic on Sunday declared that any major decisions made on Kosovo must go to a referendum. Serbia's President on Sunday said that if the government makes key decisions on future relations with the former province of Kosovo under pressure from the EU, the issue must be put to the public in a referendum. The people have a right to decide on whether to accept the EU's conditions, Tomislav Nikolic told the TV show “Teska Rec” ("Hard Word") on TV Pink on December 28. “There must be a referendum.

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Could Serbia do more for chapter 35 (Politika)

Even in case that Belgrade had implemented any other detail from the Brussels Agreement, I am not convinced that it would be enough for opening negotiations with the EU, said Laslo Varga, deputy chairperson of the Serbian parliament’s Committee for European integrations. With that regard the question emerges why Serbia didn’t ask additional explanations from the EU.

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Kosovo does not participate in the meeting 16 + 1 (Danas)

Belgrade - Although from the signing of the Brussels Treaty (April 2013) the Government of Serbia has a liberal attitude on the participation of the self-proclaimed state of Kosovo in international conferences, Pristina has no representatives among the participants of the Third Summit of Heads of Government of China and the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, held in Belgrade. The organizers of the summit, China and its European host Serbia officially have not recognized Kosovo's independence, although Beijing after the agreement between Belgrade and Pristina on freedom of movement, acce

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EU ministers: Serbia made progress, more work ahead (Tanjug)

BRUSSELS - The Council of the European Union commended on Tuesday the progress Serbia made in internal reforms and in the normalization of Belgrade-Pristina relations, noting, however, that there is still work to be done. “The Council welcomes the progress made by Serbia in the past year, including in public administration reform, judicial reform and the fight against corruption and organized crime,” reads the document adopted on Tuesday at the meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels. The Council welcomes the launch of accession negotiations with Serbia and commends the high level of pre

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