STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS

• Vucic: EU membership Serbia’s strategic goal (RTS)
• Dacic, Gasic: New stage of relations with NATO (Tanjug)
• Gracanica: Unity of Serbs needed more than ever (Radio Serbia)
• Drecun: Prosecution to also identify perpetrators of crimes against Serbs (Tanjug)

STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS

• Decision signed on appointment of new FB&H government (Fena)
• Kebo lodges another report against Mahmuljin and Dzaferovic (Nezavisne)
• Brammertz: Prosecutors should prove to Serbs they are unbiased (Srna)

RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES

• Sutorina Crisis: Bosnia losing its closest neighbour, Montenegro (Journal of Turkish Weekly)
• Djukanovic Reshuffles his Team in Montenegro (BIRN)
• UN rights office urges impartial investigation of Macedonia political figures (Jurist)
• Macedonia: Behind the Façade (Al Jazeera)

STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS

• Nikolic close to a final version of his platform for Kosovo (Novosti)
• Vucic: EU path depends from dialogue with Kosovo Albanians (RTS)
• Vulin: Deliberate pogrom against Serbs (Beta)
• Former Serbian policemen protest (Beta)
• Arrests in Serbia over Srebrenica (B92/Beta/Tanjug)
• Weak for the most difficult constitutional dispute (Politika)

STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS

• B&H Prosecution congratulates Serbian Prosecution (Srna)
• Brammertz: Arrests confirmation of regional cooperation (Srna)
• Agreement on the joint ministries (Fena)
• Brammertz: Finalize transfer of subjects of war crimes from state to cantonal level (Fena)

RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES

• Suspected jihadist recruiters on trial in Serbia, Albania (Zee News)
• Serbia arrests seven men over 1995 Srebrenica massacre (AP)
• EU Is One Step Behind Developments in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Euinside)
• Refugees in Montenegro Plan Return to Kosovo (BIRN)
• Brain drain in the Western Balkans (Open Democracy)

STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS

• Vucic: Wisest policy for Kosovo (Radio Belgrade)
• Djuric, Vulin: Pogrom in Kosovo and Metohija must never be forgotten (RTS/Tanjug)
• Mihajlovic: Kosovo Serbs safer than before (RTS)
• Eleventh anniversary of March pogrom against Serbs and Serbian Orthodox Church in Kosovo and Metohija (Danas)
• SRS: Annul the Brussels agreement (Beta)
• Joksimovic: Opening of a chapter by mid-year would be an achievement (Beta/Tanjug)
• Germans persistently hindering Serbia (Novosti)

STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS

• B&H Council of Ministers completed (Nezavisne)
• SNSD and DNS delegates not participating in the House of Peoples of B&H (RTRS)
• Genjac: We are entering a period of blackmail, blockage and obstruction by the SNSD (Fena)
• Hague Tribunal rejects Goran Hadzic release plea (RTCG)

RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES

• World Bank supports Serbia in creating better real estate management for its citizens and investors (The Financial)
• EU to implement Bosnia association pact (EUobserver)
• Bosnia’s Radoncic Accused at Kelmendi Drug Trial in Kosovo (Hetq)
• Russia in the Balkans: Perceptions and Realities (Balkan Insight)

STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS

• Serbian government fully devoted to EU path (RTS)
• Djuric: Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija still not free (Jedinstvo/Tanjug)
• Djuric: Serbia in the political life of Kosovo and Metohija (Vesti/Tanjug/RTS)
• KFOR: Cooperation has contributed to improved security (Tanjug)
• Pristina continues with illegal privatization (Novosti)
• Branimir Stojanovic: We are not conditioning, but insisting on Union of Serb Municipalities (Radio Serbia)
• New symbols do not annul Autonomous Province of Vojvodina (Beta)

STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS

• B&H has received the green light from the EU for the SAP (N1)
• Possible blockade of the House of Peoples (Srna)
• Dodik: We continue to be the strongest (Beta, Banja Luka correspondent)
• B&H Journalist Association strongly condemns RS President’s verbal attack on Oslobodjenje reporter (Oslobodjenje)
• Nasa Stranka: Ethnic parties create favorable conditions for extremists (Oslobodjenje)
• Serge Brammertz visiting B&H (Oslobodjenje)

RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES

• FIBA grants Kosovo full membership, Serbia unhappy (Reuters)
• Interview: Serbia says Russia ties don't hamper OSCE role (AP)
• Macedonia’s Gruevski rallies supporters, defies opposition (EurActiv)
• Hooligan Attack Raises Ethnic Tensions in Bosnia (BIRN)
• Confusion After Bosnia Arrests Explosives Smugglers (BIRN)
• US to back Montenegro in final stage of its NATO integration (NEOnline)

STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS

• Joksimovic: Good day for Serbia (Tanjug)
• Analysis of harmonization with EU acquis soon (Tanjug)
• Albanian migrants were only a prelude (Politika)

STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS

• B&H Prosecutor: Order not to conduct investigations against Dzaferovic, Mahmuljin issued (Srna)
• Dodik: Information on withdrawal of Russian optima group is false (Srna)
• Dodik-Ferguson: RS must be visible in B&H’s European path (Oslobodjenje)
• Russian Ambassador to B&H: Resolutions must mention all tragedies and all victims (Srna)
• France: Montenegro not yet ready to join NATO (Tanjug’s Podgorica correspondent)
• B&H jihadist recruitment center (RTCG/Taggespiegel)

RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES

• EU, NATO Officials Raise Concerns over Macedonia's Political Tensions (Novinite)
• Dacic Aims to Ease Serbia-Croatia Tensions in Zagreb (BIRN)
• Serbian central bank to consider rate cut on IMF, inflation: Reuters poll (Reuters)
• Former Yugoslav foes join forces in seeking tombstone protection (Reuters)
• Mladic Witness Blames ‘Criminals’ for Sanski Most Killings (BIRN)