Police prevents an attack to Prime Minister’s escort (Koha.net)
Kosovo Police identified a few individuals who were planning to attack the escort of the Prime Minister Isa Mustafa.
The police requested to search the bags of the suspects, when they threw them away and fled.
Solidarity, as a foundation of the EU, is crumbling (Koha Ditore)
Is Kosovo a safe place or not? (Koha Ditore)
The paper’s Brussels-based correspondent, Augustin Palokaj, in an opinion piece today writes that the European Union considers Kosovo as a safe place of origin in terms of access to asylum seekers from Kosovo. But, according to him, the EU and many member states consider the security situation in Kosovo still "fragile". “The EU also faces a logical question: If Kosovo is a safe place, then why it needs foreign soldiers and police officers.
A YES for the association of the Presevo Valley (Koha Ditore)
Adriatik Kelmendi considers that the idea for the creation of the Association of the municipalities with Albanian majority in the territory that to majority of Albanians represents Eastern Kosovo while to Serbs southern Serbia, seems to be a delayed one, however it is imposed as a necessity. According to him, reciprocity for Presevo Valley should have been the initial strategy of Albanians as a response to the request for autonomy for Serbs within Kosovo.
UNHCR: Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian families to return to their homes in Mitrovica (Koha)
Representatives of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Tuesday met with the Mayor of Mitrovica, Agim Bahtiri, to discuss the possibilities of returning of some of the displaced families from the Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian communities currently living in Montenegro. Representatives of the UNHCR and Bahtiri agreed that after the data collection to start with the process of repatriation. Bahtiri said that the Municipality has supported this process by allocating some hectares of land for the repatriated families.
The three truths of the dialogue (Koha Ditore)
The paper’s Brussels-based correspondent Augustin Palokaj in an opinion piece recalls that Kosovo’s Minister without portfolio, Edita Tahiri, said that Serbia’s Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic signed an agreement with Kosovo with the acronym “Republic of Kosovo” written on the documents. “Surprisingly in the EU they say that ‘this is true’, but in the same way Kosovo’s Prime Minister Isa Mustafa signed agreements which say that everything in the territory of Kosovo is property of the Republic of Serbia,” Palokaj writes.
Europeanisation of “Brussels” (Koha Ditore)
In his series of writings about the Brussels agreements between Pristina and Belgrade, publicist Veton Surroi remarks today that while the agreements are impossible to be rejected, they could nevertheless be reevaluated. This process would however not be sufficient if carried out by the Kosovo Constitutional Court which is known for political decisions and crisis of legitimacy. Even if this was not the case, the Constitutional Court would not be fit to reassess an agreement which is of European, not local, character.
Partition of Kosovo and flag’s colours (Koha Ditore)
Paranoia and the association (Koha Ditore)
Publicist Halil Matoshi says there is a “massive paranoia” in Kosovo right now with people worrying not about what the Association/Community of Serb majority municipalities means legally today but what it may mean tomorrow in its implementation stage.