President of Leftist Party, Borko Stefanovic said two members of his party were injured in Mitrovica North, B92 reported.

They sustained injuries while sitting in a coffee bar, following a debate on Kosovo-Serbia relations.

“While we were sitting and having coffee, some great heroes threw stones at us, breaking the coffee bar’s windows. Two members of the Leftist Party sustained head injuries. Mindless people and cowards will not stop us,” Stefanovic wrote on his Twitter profile.

Kosovo Foreign Minister Behgjet Pacolli said in an interview with Deutsche Welle (in Serbian) that Serbia "does not have to say that it recognizes Kosovo." It only has to "act like that," he said.

Pacolli argued that "the reality is that Serbia can influence the region", that Kosovo has "a long border with Serbia" and that in Pristina they want to have "good relations with Serbia."

The European Union has to clarify to the Serbian public that a request for “full normalization of relations” with Pristina, on Serbia’s path to the EU “is not necessarily recognition of Kosovo,” although it might happen at a certain moment in the future, analysis of the European Parliament General Directorate for Foreign Affairs said, Serbian media reported.

Belgrade based daily Vecernje Novosti in its article published over the weekend argues whether it is possible to change the intermediary in the Brussels dialogue, Pristina insistence to involve the USA in the process and that both sides need to agree on the format of the negotiations.

The USA cannot sit at the table as a direct participant in the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue, without the consent of Belgrade, despite the strong efforts of Pristina to “drag in” Washington as the main intermediary, Novosti further reports.

Normalization of relations with Pristina is an issue directly affecting further progress of Serbia in the accession process, said Johannes Hahn, who welcomed Vucic’s initiative for internal dialogue on Kosovo, Danas daily reported.

The EU Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations Commissioner, Johannes Hahn is in two-day visit to Serbia.

Director of the Serbian Government Office for Kosovo, Marko Djuric said that a blockade, of a positive social processes, goes in favour of those whose interest is to keep Kosovo as a long-term hostage in a frozen conflict, Sputnik reported today.

By: Gezim Krasniqi

Far from signaling a new era in Serbia-Kosovo relations, Vucic’s recent call to ‘get real’ on the issue could lead to attempts to redraw borders.

While optimists may have welcomed Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic’s recent call for an internal debate within Serbia about Kosovo, seasoned observers fear the move will serve to tighten Vucic’s already considerable grip on power.

While President Vucic is calling for an internal dialogue on Kosovo and considers how to resolve the Kosovo issue, certain scenarios, how to overcome this problem are already surfacing, Blic daily reported today.

Division of Kosovo, personal and territorial autonomy, Cyprus model, economic co-operation and membership of Kosovo in international organizations, these are some of the solutions that one could hear about in the Serbian public.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has emphasized that, in regard to Kosovo, he wants to start on a new path.

Although the Serbs are not ready for that, he will not ease up, he said.

"It's easy to say, go and fight for Kosovo. However that always led us to war. I want to start a new path, for Serbia. I want to openly and fairly discuss the solution of the Kosovo conflict," Vucic said in an interview for the Swiss daily Blick.

Ivica Dacic says "delimitation to what is Serbian and what is Albanian" is one possible permanent compromise solution in the dialogue on Kosovo and Metohija.

In an article he wrote for the daily Blic on Monday, quoted by Beta, the Foreign Minister and first Deputy PM wrote that he will "check the possibility of delimitation in that area" with President Aleksandar Vucic, who has raised the issue of internal dialogue on Kosovo and Metohija.