While domestic analysts believe the talks' resumption was an important step in the negotiations, EU Commissioner for Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations Johannes Hahn said that a favorable outcome of the dialogue "can contribute to chapters being opened this year."

The Belgrade train is on track to Brussels, but the speed of this train depends on the success of the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina.

Atmosphere in the European Commission indicates on a dose of discomfort there because nothing important took place between Serbia and the EU ever since of January 2014, said paper’s source familiar with the Brussels ‘affairs. According to the source, similar feeling is shared by most of the member states, but ‘nothing is happening’ still. Thus, it still remains unknown whether the first chapter in accession negotiations with the EU will open in the first half of the year.

This paper’s Brussels based correspondent, Augustin Palokaj, writes that seven years after the declaration of independence, Kosovo is in a status quo position in relation to the European Union and NATO, despite the fact that the latter liberated Kosovo.

The number of illegal crossings at Serbia-Hungary border, as well as the number of persons from Kosovo and Metohija illegally trying to reach the Schengen zone, increased slightly this Saturday, but, according to the Hungarian police, it is still several times lower compared to last weekend.

Illegal energy operator in northern Kosovo “Elektrokosmet” which supplies Serbs in this part with electricity, has started today to distribute notices that if they do not pay the energy bills, the will be disconnected from the network.
Sources of Koha.net from the north informed that these warnings have been distributed to the population in Mitrovica, Zvecan/Zvecani, Leposavic and Zubin Potok. “"Pay electrical bills and show that you respect institutions of the Republic of Serbia,"” is written on these warnings.

Gorani Citizens' Initiative has asked the Government of Serbia and its negotiating team, to include Gorani into talks on Kosovo.

The statement says that "at this point, Gorani, as the non-Albanian population in Kosovo, in these negotiations no one represents, or anyone protects our interests."

Gorani Citizens Initiative stated that the best example of this is the recent agreement on the judiciary in Kosovo, in which municipality of Gora and Gorani are not even mentioned.

Movement Dveri (extra-parliamentarian party in Serbia) assessed that massive migration of Albanian women and children from Kosovo and Metohija for sure doesn’t’ resemble on economic migration, instead it has all elements of an evacuation of civilians from the future war operation zone.

“Migration is carried out fast and in panic, what is never a feature of an economic migration,” assessed Dveri in a statement and added that security structures in Serbia should raise the security level to the highest level.

The upper house of Germany’s parliament, the Bundesrat, called for an early opening of the first chapter in the negotiations on Serbia's membership in the EU without direct conditionality with the process progress in resolving the issue of Kosovo, according to a document in which Danas had access to.

Soon after the Brussels Agreement was signed a question was made whether implementation would be more challenging than its signing. For both, Belgrade and Kosovo Serbs, the agreement is a success in given circumstances, however both claim that there are no staff who could be engaged in the actual work.

Director of the Serbian Government’s Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Djuric said that in the continuation of the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina, the Serbian Government deems the establishment of the Union of Serb Municipalities a top priority.