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Little light across the jungle (Koha Ditore)

Enver Robelli writes about recent developments in the Kosovo Assembly and notes that yesterday’s session carried some important details that he further describes in the column. Isa Mustafa, says Robelli, got elected to the post of Assembly Speaker and regardless of how long he remains in this capacity, he needs to begin immediate changes to his party, the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), and adds that Vjosa Osmani could be the one to take the party helm at this point. Osmani, in last elections, was the most voted woman and Kosovo needs a woman to lead a big party.

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Mustafa: We are counting on minorities’ votes (RTK2)

The candidate for the post of the Kosovo Assembly speaker Isa Mustafa stated after a meeting with representatives of the Serbs that he expects Serb MPs to vote for him and coalition LDK-AAK-NISMA. Electronic media carried that Mustafa said that it is minorities’ imperative to be part of the government, what would enable them to manage municipalities with Serbian majority in Kosovo in better manner. Leaders of the Serbian List yesterday met with the Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic.

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Dacic presents priorities of Serbian OSCE chairmanship (Tanjug)

VIENNA - During its chairmanship of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) next year, Serbia will use experience to offer contribution to stability and peace in the world, Serbia’s First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic said at the meeting of the OSCE’s Permanent Council in Vienna Tuesday. Lessons from the past show that sustainable solutions can only be achieved through dialogue, Dacic said while presenting the priorities of Serbia's OSCE chairmanship in 2015. He recalled that two years before, Switzerland and Serbia had decided to d

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Exclusive: This is how Arsim Bajrami is preparing Flora Brovina for Thursday's session (GazetaBlic)

The Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK), is already  preparing the scenario for the constitutive session of the Assembly of Kosovo on Thursday. Sources of this portal within PDK, reportedly said that PDK jurists chaired by Arsim Bajrami are preparing the scenario on the flow of the session.

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Kosovo Petitions UN to Investigate Wartime Rapes (Balkan Insight)

The Kosovo authorities and rights campaigners launched a national petition urging the United Nations to produce a report about rapes committed during the late 1990s conflict. The authorities set up tents on Monday in towns across Kosovo, excluding Serb-majority areas, where people could sign the petition calling on the UN to finally establish the facts about rapes by Serbian fighters during the 1998-99 war. “Today we can tell these women that we are with them, that we are their voice and that we want the perpetrators of those genocidal crimes to be brought before international justice,” said

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In the fall a new step towards Europe (Vecernje Novosti)

When in January officially launched negotiations between Serbia and the European Union, the first intergovernmental conference in Brussels announced that our country will go the European way with steps of seven miles. However, six months since then, the pace of the negotiations taking place does not look very encouraging. Because, Serbia so far has not open any negotiation chapter. The procedure, however, requires a screening of the chapters, which can be a lengthy process.

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North Kosovo Serbs, Albanians, Erect Rival Monuments (Balkan Insight)

Albanians and Serbs individed northern Kosovo are marking out their respectives territories by erecting rival monuments named after their respective heroes. Ethnic Albanians have responded to the construction of a new "Tsar Lazar" square on the main bridge of the divided town of Mitrovica in northern Kosovo by erecting concrete constructions of their own. Following the construction of the new square on the northern side of town on Wednesday, ethnic Albanians erected a concrete monument named "the KLA", the Kosovo Liberation Army, in the northern village of Suhodoll/Suvi Do. Locals also told

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Balkans caught between the past and the future (Koha Ditore)

Brussels-based correspondent and columnist, Augustin Palokaj, remarks that last Friday, on the anniversary of Srebrenica massacre, leaders from the Balkans were taking part in a conference in Dubrovnik aimed at the region’s EU integration. Serbian Foreign Minister, Ivica Dacic, failed to condemn the Srebrenica atrocities in his address and instead focused on what the EU should do to sanction its member states which do not respect European values.

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