Serbia in the region offers the best conditions for investors. I am proud of the fact that Serbia is today politically and economically stable country despite economic crisis. This said the Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic, addressing businessmen from Austria and Serbia in the Business Forum Serbia in Vienna 2015.

Repeating the story on the army of Kosovo and a new draft law on the armed forces, the authorities in Pristina try to make room for political pressure and manoeuvre for negotiation with Belgrade in Brussels.

Kosovo Albanians are massively leaving the province. It is estimated that only in January about 20,000 Albanians went abroad. Kosovo Serbs fear that Albanians go abroad in order to shelter their families there.  According to some rumours extremists from Albania, Macedonia, Montenegro and south Serbia are arriving in Kosovo. As stated, they are trained in various terrorist camps.  There are some information that "something big is preparing," and that pogrom similar to that of 2004 can be repeated, only this time with the aim of complete cleansing of Kosovo from the Serbs.

As announced by the Kosovo Foreign Ministry in a meeting with the US Under Secretary of Defence, Evelyn Farkas, this year will be decisive for the transformation of Kosovo Security Forces in the army. Belgrade pointed out that the formation of the Kosovo Army is contrary to the UN Security Council Resolution 1244 and it will not help improving the security of Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija, or stability in the region. Professor of the Faculty of Security Zoran Dragisic stressed that Serbia could do nothing to prevent this process; in particular Serbia could not influence the support and bilate

I have no intention to resign, because I have not violated the law in any moment nor I have offended the citizens by a comment. I've condemned the attack on Serbs on Christmas Eve in Gjakovica/Gjakova, and that's all. Protests and demands of the Self-determination have nothing to do with what I said, told Vesti Aleksandar Jablanovic, the Minister for Communities and Returns in the Kosovo government. Do you think that they would protest regardless of your statement? - I am sure it would have been protests; just the motive would have been of some other nature.

During a private visit to Vatican, Kosovo President Atifete Jahjaga unsuccessfully tried to persuade Pope Francis to recognize the independence of Kosovo.

“Serbia does not need to fully meet the international community’s requirements and dismantle parallel structures in Kosovo,” said Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic. “Brussels’ request for Serbia to abolish all parallel institutions in northern Kosovo should not be accepted because that would mean that we are giving up our principles.” While explaining his proposed new Kosovo policy, which has not yet been presented to the public, he said that the community/association of Serb municipalities should not be constituted in accordance with the laws of Kosovo.

The new proposal for the solution of the southern Serbian Province, announced recently by the Serbian President Nikolic, the opposition parties see as President’s attempt to differently position himself on the domestic political scene.

Hashim Thaci arrives tomorrow in Strasbourg where in the capacity of Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kosovo he will meet with the Secretary General of the Council of Europe Thorbjorn Jagland, to discuss the admission of Kosovo in this pan-European organization that brings together 47 countries including Serbia.  The meeting was organized at the request of Pristina, and Thaci will arrive at the Council of Europe accompanied by the Consul of Kosovo in Strasbourg, Edon Cana.