Prime Minister Ana Brnabic spoke on Thursday in Belgrade at the opening of the Second Digital Summit of the Western Balkans.
Brnabic said that her government has set digitization and education as their absolute priorities in order to take advantage of all the chances that are being offered to us today.
Belgrade is thinking of launching an arbitrage over the tariffs Pristina imposed on goods from central Serbia last November thus violating CETFA agreement, Vecernje Novosti reported.
According to the daily, this option is on the table since 25 February after the 90 days have passed when the Government of Serbia submitted an official request to the CEFTA Secretariat to have a direct consultation within the Joint Committee on the matter.
Former US special envoy in the Contact Group (CG), Frank Wisner assessed that a decade after the CG tried to resolve the Kosovo issue, the situation on the ground has not changed, despite of Kosovo declaring independence in 2008, RTS reported.
He added, deadlines for reaching the final Belgrade-Pristina agreement should not be set, instead a lasting and compromise solution should be found through the dialogue.
German diplomat Wolfgang Ischinger in an interview for RTS said the EU perspective for Serbia and other countries in the region should be open, while the enlargement process should continue.
There is a hidden agenda behind the announcement of a snap election in Serbia, political and marketing affairs expert Cvijetin Milivojevic stated, adding that this news is made public for some different goals.
EU Commissioner Johannes Hahn says the deadlock in the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue is not a reason to halt the process of EU integration.
"I am extremely sorry that the dialogue has been stopped, that is not good. There is no reason and it would be a mistake to stop everything just because the dialogue is in a deadlock," Hahn, who is in charge of EU's neighborhood policy and enlargement negotiations, told a joint news conference with the Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic.
Serbian Prime Minster Ana Brnabic said Serbia remains committed to integrated and stable region, Tanjug news agency reported.
She added, however it is not fair to insist on signing the other agreements, while Pristina does not respect some of the fundamental regional agreements. She made these remarks following the meeting with EU Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn, adding that the main topics discussed were Serbia’s EU path and its work in relation to the reforms and regional connecting and cooperation.
Germany is becoming more involved in the negotiations on Kosovo and is requesting that the EU appoint "a powerful envoy with powerful authority" in the fall, BETA learned from well-informed sources in Brussels on March 28.
President Aleksandar Vucic met late on Thursday in Villa Mir in Belgrade with EU Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations Commissioner Johannes Hahn. They discussed Serbia's European integration, the situation in the region and the problems in the dialogue with Pristina, B92 reports.
The EU commissioner "insisted on progress in the field of democracy and the rule of law for the benefit of society and the movement of Serbia on its European path."
Head of EU Delegation to Serbia Sem Fabrizi said there is no alternative to Belgrade-Pristina dialogue on Kosovo and that status quo is not an option. He added that he remains cautiously optimistic about the achievement of an agreement between Belgrade and Pristina.
"I do not think there is a possibility to maintain this situation, the status quo is not an option, it does not help either Serbia or Pristina. There is a need for dialogue to continue and reach an agreement," Fabrizi told the students at the Faculty of Political Science in Belgrade.