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EC report says Kosovo faces numerous challenges (Tanjug)

BRUSSELS - Kosovo has the capacity to move forward in EU integration, but it faces numerous challenges in combating organised crime and corruption and establishing the rule of law, the European Commission (EC) annual report on Kosovo presented in Brussels on Wednesday says. The Kosovo authorities have displayed a solid capacity to coordinate plans for EU integration, the EC states, adding that Kosovo has completed the negotiations concerning the Stabilisation and Association Agreement and started the talks concerning a visa liberalisation. However, practical results in th

Confirming Kosovo's European perspective (Koha)

Koha Ditore runs an op-ed by Stefan Fule, the European Commission's Commissioner for Enlargement and the European Neighborhood Policy. When I joined the European Commission five years ago to deal with EU enlargement, who could have imagined that Kosovo would have made so much progress on its European path since? To start with, a major building block of our relations has been put in place this July: Kosovo has initialled a Stabilisation and Association Agreement – SAA for short – with the European Union. It is not just a formality.

DSS condemned the statement of Marko Djuric (RTK2)

Provincial Committee of the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) for Kosovo and Metohija today condemned the statement of the Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Marko Djuric that Serbs and Albanians in 2025 will be allies. The committee said that such a thing cannot be said by someone who does not know the history of the conflict in Kosovo. "However, this is not the only political nonsense that the senior civil servant said so far on the issue of Kosovo.

Mass grave of Kosovo Serbs in Djakovica/Gjakove? (B92, Blic)

The Office of the War Crimes Prosecutor of Serbia and EULEX will verify information on the existence of a mass grave of Serbian victims in the village Piskota in Gjakove/Gjakovica municipality, the Office of the War Crimes Prosecutor in Belgrade announced today. According to the press release, it is suspected that the grave contains the bodies of people killed during the armed conflict in Kosovo in 1998 and 1999. The Serbian prosecution has information that the location could possibly contain the remains of victims of KLA crimes in the "Likovci" prison camp. EULEX Prosecution has ordered th

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Kosovo – good only for dialogue with Serbia (Koha Ditore)

The paper’s Brussels correspondent, Augustin Palokaj, says that there is very little curiosity for this year’s European Commission (EC) progress report and one of the reasons for this is that there is no uncertainty regarding possible recommendations that will derive from the document. Now, when Kosovo has already closed negotiations for Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA) and can make no further integration steps without being recognised by five EU member states, the EC has nothing to recommend, claims Palokaj.

West using Crimea to cover suspicious deeds in Kosovo (IRS)

The western countries are using the Crimean crisis to cover their own suspicious acts in Kosovo, Russian ambassador with the OSCE Andrei Kelin stated for the Russua-24 TV. He has rejected as hypocritical all the claims of Russia allegedly violating the international law, the Itar Tass reports. The international law was violated with the USA invasion of Granada, and also when the NATO states bombed Serbia in order to take Kosovo away, Kelin said.

Marko Djuric today in Zubin Potok (Blic)

Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Marko Djuric today will visit kindergarten in Zubin Potok, which was built by the Office for Kosovo and Metohija. The newly constructed kindergarten is located next to the old one and will be able to accommodate 60 children; it was announced by the Office for Kosovo and Metohija. Djuric will also visit the water system in the construction in Gazivode near Zubin Potok, which will supply the municipalities of Zubin Potok, Zvecan and Mitrovica with drinking water. The Water system, which construction is funded by the Office for KiM, should solve