Berlin, Belgrade - German Chancellor Angela Merkel announcement that by the end of August she will invite all the countries of the Western Balkans to a conference about their path to the EU, can be interpreted as the willingness of the Germans to take care of the region, partly as a consequence of the Ukrainian crisis, said to Danas Predrag Simic, President of the Forum for International Relations of the European Movement in Serbia.

Pristina, Belgrade - Serbian List the first day of the official campaign for Kosovo's early parliamentary elections, "frozen" the pre-election activities primarily in northern Kosovo, and then south of the Ibar/Ibër River.