Resignation of the Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj would have major consequences on Serbia as it would postpone continuation of Belgrade-Pristina dialogue for at least 90 days, or perhaps even longer given that extraordinary parliamentary elections might take place in Kosovo, Belgrade-based daily Danas writes today. The daily added regular elections are to take place in Serbia at the beginning of next year.
Mitrovica-based KoSSev portal editor Tatjana Lazarevic told TV N1 that the lack of goods from central Serbia in the north of Kosovo is noticeable.
“What is being sold now, for the last ten days, comes from reserves. This was confirmed to us by small shop owners but also by the Association of Businessmen. They told us the last reserves are being sold out, and some shops appear to be better supplied because they have larger reserves,” Lazarevic said.
She also noted the situation appear to be normal at first glance, but “certain level of panic” is also noticeable.
"The leadership in Belgrade will bear terrible pressure in the upcoming weeks, which Belgrade itself may have partially induced," said journalist Milivoje Mihajlovic.
A dialogue simulation is taking place in Brussels and all participants are aware of this. The Brussels dialogue has hit a dead end. On one hand, there is a virtual image of media-political reality, while on the other it is contrasted to the reality in the field.
The disassembly of the virtual image, of the normalization of the relationship is at work, KoSSev editor Tatjana Lazarevic, assessed during the Day Live (Dan Uživo) political talk-show on TV N1.
The KoSSev media news outlet received a warning from the two police officers of the Kosovo Police North Mitrovica station, before the launch of a possible lawsuit against the media outlet, the portal reported.
Police officer Milan Ristovic and the commander of the North Mitrovica station, Djordje Karamarkovic, in four separate requests, complained about the public (Facebook) comments on the news site, made in regard to their work.
"This has nothing to do with any free, fair, democratic elections, at least when it comes to voting in Serb-populated areas, despite the fact that the atmosphere today for the time being seems to be very free and runs to a large extent without incident (…).