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Serbian PM cool on President's Kosovo 'Platform' (Balkan Insight)

Serbia's Prime Minister has given a cool response to leaks of the President's platform on Kosovo, which has not been revealed in entirety but, according to the daily newspaper Politika, TV B92 and some other media, offers Kosovo only the status of a province within Serbia.

The offer is clearly unacceptable to Kosovo, which declared independence in 2008, as well as to the many Western countries, including the US, which recognised it as an inde

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PM:Serbia for sustainable solution for Serb community in KiM (Dailies)

Serbia's Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic told German daily Die Welt that Belgrade has made progress in the dialogue with Pristina and that it has carried out painful reforms, adding he hopes that chapters in Serbia's EU accession talks will be opened soon. "Serbia worked very hard on that. We have advanced in the dialogue with Pristina; we have carried out painful reforms and initiated austerity measures.

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Selaković: The issue of Kosovo is number one political issue (Vecernje Novosti)

Minister of Justice Nikola Selakovic today stated that visit of the Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić to Brussels and Berlin is important because Kosovo and Metohija, and relation with Pristina, is the number one political issue in relations between the EU and Serbia. Selaković said to TV Pink that states that make core of the EU, that is Germany, is mostly interested about relation between Belgrade and Pristina.

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Vucic Complains about Serbian President to NGO Officials (Blic, VIP)

Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic is creating serious problems for the Serbian Government with his platform for Kosovo, Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic told representatives of nongovernmental organizations, adding that he learned about the content of the document from the media, Blic reports on Monday. “Nikolic is creating serious problems for me with the platform, and I learned from the media about what is written in it,” said Vucic to NGO representatives at meetings last week. The Prime Minister complained that Nikolic wrote the platform without any consultations with him.

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Odalovic: Serbia and Albania could be pillar of stability (RTS, NMagazin, Blic)

Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Veljko Odalovic has stated that it was important for Serbia and Albania to devote to the recent events in Kumanovo, FYROM and that these two countries could be a pillar of stability in the region. Odalovic told the RTS that the visit takes place at a delicate moment, but it would be important that Serbia and Albania deal primarily with the events in Kumanovo. The actions of certain isolated armed groups in this fragile region have the potential of spilling over to the Serbian territory and endangering the stability in the Balkans.

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Serbia’s Prime Minister Charts an Uncertain Course West (The Wall Street Journal)

 A year into office, Aleksandar Vucic says ‘no turning back’ on EU membership bid BELGRADE— Aleksandar Vucic, Serbia’s 45-year-old prime minister, has a reputation for combining brawn with brains. A law student as the former Yugoslavia began to unravel a quarter century ago, Mr. Vucic, then a fervent Serb nationalist, studied hard during the week, notching up top scores in school. On weekends, he would follow his beloved soccer team, Red Star Belgrade, across the country, brawling with fans from top Croatian, Bosnian and other non-Serb teams. Mr.

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PM "wants EU to say why chapters are not opened" (B92)

Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said on Thursday that the EU should say why no negotiating chapters in Serbia's membership negotiations have yet been opened. Ahead of his meeting with visiting EU Commissioner Johannes Hahn, Vucic said they will discuss "what Serbia has done so far," and added he "noticed everything is a matter of the dialogue with Pristina." The prime minister stressed that he and Hahn will discuss "the concrete reasons why chapters have not been opened," and added this was "certainly not because of the Brussels agreement": "Which part of this agreement has Serbia not fulfi

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PM "hopes EU will recognize Serbia's efforts" (B92)

Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic hopes that EU countries will recognize the efforts Serbia is investing in the dialogue with Pristina. He made this statement in Belgrade on Wednesday as he received Gianni Pittella, president of the group of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament (EP). According to the Serbian government, the prime minister "also expressed the hope that EU countries would also recognize other political and economic reform processes and back Serbia's progress on its EU path by opening negotiating chapters." Pittella "communicated to Prime Minister Vucic the greeti

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