Nothing out of the first chapter (Vecernje Novosti)
General Affairs Council of the EU today will not open the first negotiation chapter with Serbia.
The negotiations could start in January? (Vecernje Novosti)
If Serbia immediately fulfil at least three of the 11 conditions that had come from the EU headquarters, the first negotiating chapter could be open at the end of January - learn Novosti.
According to the signals coming from Brussels and Berlin, if Belgrade in the coming weeks, remove the "Peace Park" on the bridge in Mitrovica, leave the hydro power plant "Gazivode" and substation "Valac" to Pristina and reach an agreement with Pristina about the phone code for Kosovo, in parallel, the chapter 35 would open, on the normalization of relations with Kosovo, and the 32, the financial control.
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Germans want Kosovo removed from Constitution (Vecernje Novosti, B92)
Chapter 35 in Serbia's negotiations for EU membership "will not be closed until the Serbian Constitution is harmonized with the Brussels agreement (on Kosovo)."
The daily Vecernje Novosti writes that the Constitution's preamble and articles defining the country's territorial arrangements are targeted by this.
Besides the 11 conditions for the opening of the "key chapter, on Kosovo," writes the daily, "Berlin has delivered another demand to Serbia: that our Constitution be aligned with the Brussels agreement!"
As the paper said it learned, without complying with this requirement chapter 35 w
Berlin sent 11 new conditions (Vecernje Novosti)
The Brussels conditions for opening the chapter 35 relating to the normalization of relations with Kosovo, based on which should begin negotiations with the EU, are almost "impossible" for Serbia, because many of them go deep into the status of Kosovo.
President again says EU will seek "recognition of Kosovo" (Vecernje Novosti, Tanjug)
BELGRADE -- Tomislav Nikolic says he "knows for certain" that Serbia will be faced with a choice: either Kosovo or EU membership.
Jevtic: Encouraging decision of the Serbian Government regarding return of displaced (Vecernje Novosti)
Minister for Communities and Return in the Kosovo government Dalibor Jevtic stated that decision of the Serbian Government on allocation of bigger funds for the return of displaced persons to Kosovo in next year is encouraging. Jevtic said to Tanjug that return of displaced in 2015 mostly depends from created conditions on the ground for the return of displaced persons and provision of the financial means. “If we manage to defend the budget of the Ministry of Communities and Return and if it is not reduced, we can expect some results in next year,” Jevtic expl
Mighty world stuck in the mud (Vecernje Novosti)
op.ed. by Oliver Ivanovic, the leader of the Civic Initiative SDP
Huge improvisation and political pressure, along with corruption, have won again.
Nikolic: We are not ready to violate the constitution because of Kosovo (Vecernje Novosti)
Serbia would have to find another president and prime minister, who would be willing to violate the Constitution and talk with representatives of Pristina as representatives of an independent state, said Tomislav Nikolic.
Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic said today that the EU would expect from Belgrade to complete negotiations with Pristina and to fully regulate its position on Kosovo.
"The EU does not want to act as in some previous cases where the membership received a state that did not regulate their internal relations," Nikolic said at a joint press conference with EU Commissioner Jo
Ivanovic: Keeping me in prison will cost EULEX dearly (Vecernje Novosti, Kurir, Tanjug)
EULEX wants me behind bars no matter what, regardless of the fact that the Serbian government has repeatedly provided strong guarantees so I could be released pending trial, says Oliver Ivanovic, leader of the Citizens' Initiative ‘Freedom, Democracy, Justice’ (GI SDP), who has been in remand custody in Kosovo for 10 months now for allegedly committing war crimes during the NATO aggression and bombing of Serbia in 1999.
“The government is helping me prepare for the trial, but for some reason EULEX refuses to release me from custody despite the government’s guarantees.
Serbian community estimates the model of South Tyrol (Vecernje Novosti)
Political representatives of the region Trentino – South Tyrol claim that their model of autonomy can be "exported" to other countries, and exactly this "model" has attracted the attention of the Serbian Steering team in drafting the Statute of the future Community of Serbian municipalities in Kosovo (ZSO).
How the model works in practice, explains Thomas Widmann, president of the Parliament of South Tyrol: “Autonomous Region of Trentino – South Tyrol consist of two provinces - Trentino and Bolzano. The region has a legal status within the political structure of the Republic of Italy.