The European Union is planning to deploy its Frontex border service in the Western Balkans, Radio Deutsche Welle has reported.
The EU is planning to significantly reinforce Frontex as part of its migration policies, the station said.
During the visit of Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic to Kosovo, journalists passed the worst, as three press teams from Serbia were the target of the attacks, that is, the incidents, writes Belgrade based daily Danas and quotes the statement by Deutsche Welle (DW) journalist, Sanja Kljajic, who said that it all seemed like journalists were accounted for in advance as collateral damage.
Serbia will never recognize Kosovo's independence, PM Ana Brnabic has said, and stressed that this would not be a compromise - something Belgrade favors.
She stressed that a compromise would also not be possible if Serbia continued to insist that Kosovo belongs to it, Tanjug cited Germany's broadcaster Deutsche Welle, which quoted Brnabic's statement made for Germany's Welt newspaper.
Brnabic also said that "relations with Pristina for us, Serbs, are difficult and emotional."
Daniel Serwer, professor of the Practice of Conflict Management, director of the Conflict Management Program and a Senior Fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations, at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, in an interview to Deutsche Welle, said that the United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) cannot block anything in Kosovo and that UN Security Council Resolution 1244 is not a problem.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic is holding a regular pace of meetings with Europe's most powerful politician Angela Merkel, and although at first glance it seems that the German chancellor will not have much to say, today's meeting could be more interesting, especially behind closed doors, assesses Deutsche Welle (DW).
German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel has voiced his support for Serbia's membership to the European Union, but not before it accepts Kosovo's independence. Five EU member states have also yet to recognize Kosovo.
Kosovo Deputy Prime Minister Dalibor Jevtic says for DW that the Serbian List has excellent cooperation with Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj and that more important are everyday life issues from the issues of the status of Kosovo, reports RTK2.
The current Kosovo government has included the issue of the Community/Association of Serb municipalities (ZSO) in its program, and Jevtic expects that next year concrete steps will be taken.
In an interview to Deutsche Welle in Serbian, Prime Minister of Kosovo Ramush Haradinaj commented on the statements of certain politicians in Serbia about the possibility of Kosovo's partition saying that border games in the Balkans are extremely dangerous. "Tragic consequences would be huge and it is not wise to discuss this now," Haradinaj said.
Serbia does not want to unify with the Republika Srpska (RS), the Belgrade-based daily Danas says was told by President Aleksandar Vucic's cabinet.
Vucic's cabinet said this when asked about RS President Milorad Dodik's map, drawn during his interview for DW, which showed his vision of the map of the Western Balkans.
In it, the Serb entity in Bosnia-Herzegovina joins Serbia, together with the north of a partitioned Kosovo.
Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik said that the policy of preserving territorial integrity, represented by Serbia, is an obstacle to the separation of Republika Srpska.
"If Serbia, in that moment, has said that it was OK, when Kosovo seceded, we would have been already separated," Dodik said in an interview with Deutsche Welle.
If Belgrade decides to recognize Kosovo's independence, Dodik says, he would not object, but it would mean that the Republika Srpska could be independent.