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President "not optimistic" after meeting with German FM (Beta, B92, Vecernje Novosti)

President Tomislav Nikolic has said that he is "not very optimistic" after his talks with German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier in Belgrade Tuesday. Nikolic explained this was the case "because he did not hear from Steinmeier that the chapters in the negotiations with the EU will be opened this year." "I cannot say that Mr. Steinmeier told me clearly that the chapters will open by the end of the year.

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Đurić: Health and education in Serbia’s system (TV Most)

The director of Serbia’s Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Đurić said that Serbia has fulfilled its obligations deriving from the Brussels Agreement and expects the start of the process of creation of the Association/Community of Serb municipalities (A/CSM) in the next month and a half. The plan of implementation of the Brussels Agreements is clear and its first element is harmonization of new legal frameworks.

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Mogherini welcomes Serbs' return to Kosovo parliament (Tanjug)

BRUSSELS - High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini welcomed the decision of Serbian MPs from the Serb List to return to the Kosovo parliament. This is an important step which confirms our firm belief that the only way to build a better future for all communities in Kosovo is through cooperation, inclusion and dialogue of chosen leaders, Mogherini said in a statement. We will continue to support such positive steps, she noted. Members of the Serb List decided Monday to return

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Serbia knows what she wants in Kosovo (Akter)

Director of the Office of the Government of Serbia for Kosovo, Marko Djuric was in Mitrovica yesterday despite opposition from Pristina, and held a press conference at the bridge over the Ibar River which separates the northern from the southern part of Mitrovica. Djuric said that Serbia knows what she wants in Kosovo - stability, survival of the Serbian people, more harmony and unity. The director said that the policy towards Kosovo was based on the principles set out in speeches by Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic expressed in the election of the government.

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Rasic: Division into Djuric and Vulin's Serbs in Kosovo (Blic)

The leader and deputy of the Progressive Democratic Party in the Assembly of Kosovo, Nenad Rasic said that the absence of Serbian representatives from yesterday's session of the assembly happened due to the division on Djuric and Vulin's Serbs, and that it does not contribute to solving problems of the Serbs in Kosovo. "There was a strange case today at the session of the Parliament, where not all Serbian representatives were present due to the polarization into Djuric and Vulin's Serbs," said Rasic in Belgrade at the round table on freedom and rights in context of the implementation of

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Northern municipalities adopted local budgets (KoSSev)

Municipal Assemblies of North Mitrovica, Zvečan/Zveçan, Leposavić/Leposaviç and Zubin Potok on Friday adopted, almost at simultaneously held extraordinary sessions, amended and supplemented local budgets, encompassing and salaries for employees in the health and education sectors in northern Kosovo. From now one the salary lists of workers employed in those two sectors will be complied by mayors and later forward to Kosovo financial institution, where salaries will be paid from.

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What after SAA between EU and Kosovo (Koha Ditore)

Augustin Palokaj, the paper’s Brussels correspondent, writes that as the European Commission prepares to approve the text of the Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA) with Kosovo, there are many issues that needs to be explained so that neither Kosovo nor the EU spend too much energy on exaggerating the agreement’s benefits. While Kosovo will be able to benefit quite a lot from the agreement, particularly in the area of foreign investment, the SAA, in its legal form, will not be the same for Kosovo as was for other countries in the region which already signed it, writes Palokaj.

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Deda: EU incapable of dealing with the Western Balkans (Vecernje Novosti)

MP of the Self-determination movement in the Kosovo Assembly, Ilir Deda said that the EU was not capable to deal with the Western Balkans, although it should be the priority. Ilir Deda said to Tanjug that the situation in Kosovo was as in all other parts of the Western Balkans, with great economic and social problems and with a lack of real European perspective. He believes that the Western Balkans should be a priority for the EU, because peace in the region was achieved only because of the perspective of membership, and the European project was not completed without all the countries of the

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