Faculty for Security professor Zoran Dragisic has said that mass migration from Kosovo and Metohija to the EU is "an organized act of crime groups." He also pointed out that the recent phenomenon "does not represent a major security threat to Serbia." "The services should answer what is behind this mass migration, because it is characteristic of war or major catastrophe, which are not present in Kosovo at this moment. Kosovo was also poor ten months and two years ago, but this was not happening.

Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic has said that he was glad that the agreement on the judiciary in Kosovo was reached in Brussels. Speaking for the Novi Magazin publication, he at the same time expressed concern that Serbia is not ready to, "with the number of judges and prosecutors," immediately begin its implementation. "I did not see anybody in the past year preparing for a solution that can be immediately applied. Do we even have such personnel in Kosovo and Metohija?

 The agreement on the judiciary reached earlier this week "is not enough to open chapter 35 on Kosovo" in Serbia's membership negotiations with the EU, writes Blic.

Serbia is cooperating closely with neighboring countries in a bid to solve the problem of the Kosovo Albanians trying to move to Western Europe. This cooperation is taking place primarily with Hungary, but also with Germany, Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said in Brussels on Monday evening. "Experts have arrived in Belgrade. However, this is not up to us.

Top officials of the police forces of Serbia, Hungary, Austria and Germany have agreed on greater cooperation as they work to prevent illegal migration. Serbian Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic met in Belgrade on Monday with German Federal Police chief Dieter Roman, Hungarian Police Director Hungary Karoly Papp, and a delegation of the Austrian police. Stefanovic announced afterwards that in addition to regular border police, Serbia will soon deploy the Gendarmerie unit and the "general jurisdiction" police at the border crossings with Hungary. He pointed out that he and his colleagues

The most important political and security challenge for Serbia is the situation in Kosovo and Metohija, Ljubisa Dikovic has said. The Serbian Army (VS) chief told the Belgrade-based Danas newspaper that Serbia is, at the moment, not under military threat. "The greatest security threats are ethnic and religious extremism, international networks of organized crime and illegal migration of people motivated by economic, political and security problems.