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Brussels’ accord, historical or damaging for Kosovo? (IBNA)

It’s been two years since the signing of the Agreement for the Normalization of Relations between Kosovo and Serbia. The accord was signed on April 19, 2013 in Brussels by the prime ministers of Kosovo and Serbia, Hashim Thaci and Ivica Dacic, with the brokerage of the EU head of for foreign affairs, Catherine Ashton. The text contains 15 points.

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Who is investigating who in Kosovo (Koha)

Brussels-based correspondent Augustin Palokaj writes in his opinion piece that the European Union Rule of Law Mission (EULEX) came to Kosovo with the executive mandate to investigate corruption and organized crime at the highest levels of Kosovo institutions. “Now we have a situation where investigations on corruption cases are being conducted within EULEX, and, among others, even Kosovo authorities are conducting investigations against EULEX.

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EU: Respect procedure envisaged in Brussels agreement (Blic, Tanjug)

BRUSSELS - The EU expects the procedure envisaged in the Brussels agreement to be respected in case of the announced visit of Kosovo Minister of Foreign Affairs Hasim Taci to Belgrade, spokesperson of the High EU representatives for foreign affairs and security policy Maja Kocijancic stated on Friday. In the dialogue on normalisation of relations, an agreement was reached concerning the procedure of mutual visits by Serbian and Kosovo officials and it envisages that all matters should be solved through liaison officers, Kocijancic said during a news briefing.

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 Kosovo is drowning. Now what? (Koha Ditore)

The opinion piece of the editor in chief of this daily, Agron Bajrami, which was initially published in the Montenegrin daily Vjesti, comes as a response to the statement of the World Bank Director, Jan Peter Olters, who criticized publicly Kosovo politicians for not being able to change the difficult socio-economic situation in Kosovo for fifteen years and for leading Kosovo into deeper crisis for their narrow interests.

“I would sign every single word that he stated,” writes Bajrami, adding that the media, civil society and the population keep emphasi

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Berlin’s conditions for opening of the chapter 35 (Politika)

It could be heard, unofficially, that the reason behind the Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic’s anger with regard to new conditions set to Serbia related to its pre-accession talks with the EU is that European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Federica Mogherini, during her recent visit to Belgrade actually presented Germany’s conditions as additional ones for opening the chapter 35, which refers to Kosovo. Berlin’s conditions for opening chapter 35 are: 1)    Statute of the Association/Community of Serb munic

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The EU slows down Serbia because of the neighboring countries (Vecernje Novosti)

Brussels will slow down the Serbia’s progress on the road to the EU with the new conditions, regardless of Serbia’s tangible progress, so that all Balkan countries could be admitted “as a package”, was confirmed for Novosti from several informal diplomatic sources. Because of this informal strategy Belgrade is faced with the additional conditions and above all with the famous 11 Berlin’s conditions. To which extent this scenario is unfavorable for Serbia is evidenced by the fact that all countries, except Montenegro, are having years-long backlog in EU integrations.

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11 Berlin conditions are mandatory for EU integration process (Vecernje Novosti)

Beside  full implementation of the Brussels Agreement, Serbia will have to fulfill 11 German conditions, in order to open the first negotiation chapters with the European Union. Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic confirmed these speculations, which informal diplomatic sources are claiming for months. “We are not clear which the conditions for continuation of integration are.

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EP: Edi Rama's statement inappropriate (Tanjug)

The European Parliament's (EP) Foreign Affairs Committee has described Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama's recent statement about unification of Kosovo and Albania as inappropriate, during a debate at the EP on the reports assessing the progress made by Bosnia-Herzegovina and Albania, Al Jazeera has published on its website. In the recent interview that Rama and Kosovo's Foreign Minister Hasim Taci have given together to Pristina-based broadcaster Klan-Kosova, the Albanian prime minister has said there are two alternatives for “the unification of Kosovo and Albania”, and that everything depend

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FM says he was "misquoted" about EU (B92)

Ivica Dacic says it is "nothing new" that Serbia faces new and more difficult conditions every time it meets "a major requirement in moving closer to the EU." But the Serbian foreign minister also said on Wednesday he was misquoted in the media who published his alleged statement that 'even if we recognized Kosovo, we would not be accepted to the EU'." He "explained what he said in his interview with the Russian website Sputnik, and what the media singled ou

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