Yesterday the Management Board of the Development Fund awarded almost EUR 1.9 million for projects in municipalities in northern Kosovo. The Leposavić/Leposaviq municipality will receive over a million EUR, North Mitrovica will receive EUR 400.000 and Zvečan/Zveqan  will receive EUR 450.000.

Minister for Communities and Return in the Kosovo government Dalibor Jevtić stated today that the Serbian List will present its official stance over the coming days on its support to candidates for President of Kosovo. He added that almost all MPs from this list believe that Serbs should have their own candidate.

Kosovo Central Election Commission (CEC) suspended 14 political parties yesterday upon justification that these parties did not submit necessary documentation to the Office for Registration and Certification of Political Parties in Kosovo. The deadline was 31 January 2016.

Among the suspended parties are parties representing non-majority communities, such as the Montenegrian Party, the United Gorani Party, Social-Democracy, the New party of Kosovo and the Serbian People’s Party of Kosovo.

Basic Court in Gnjilane/Gjilan has issued a verdict against three Kosovo Albanian juveniles sentencing them to one year of suspended imprisonment for  attacking two Kosovo Serb minors from Gornje Kusce village in Gnjilane/Gjilan municipality in December last year.

The Nigerian Medical Association in Imo State has accused billionaire and Governor Rochas Okorocha of trafficking human organs. He has been accused of doing so "with officials of Turkey and Croatia, and with Hashim Thaci." Thaci is currently Kosovo's Deputy Prime minister and Foreign minister.

According to the writer of this opinion piece, Halil Matoshi, the President of Kosovo, Atifete Jahjaga, cannot succeed in overcoming the political crisis in Kosovo considering that she has served the Democratic Party of Kosovo and Hashim Thaci for almost two mandates. He views her leadership as pitiful.

Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz is expected to visit Kosovo and meet institutional leaders tomorrow. Kurz is currently on a tour of Balkan countries and is visiting Albania today. Yesterday, he was in Belgrade and met Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic. Kurz called on leaders in Serbia to intensify dialogue for normalization of relations with Kosovo as a precondition for EU membership.

The front page editorial of the paper says that yesterday’s meeting between party leaders at the office of the President did not offer anything new, instead, it only proved that the governing coalition has no intention to compromise with opposition, and that protests throughout Kosovo remain the only solution. According to Kosova Sot, the President failed to offer any interesting options either.

The sooner Serbia disbands its parallel structures in Kosovo, the sooner the statute will be drafted for the Association/Community of Serb-majority municipalities, stated Kosovo government Minister without portfolio, in charge of dialogue, Edita Tahiri in her interview with RTK2, and added that the statute will be drafted by Kosovo institutions.

The European Parliament’s Resolution on Serbia acknowledged its reform process in the course of last year, which led to the opening of chapters 32 and 35 in negotiations on EU membership. In relation to recent adoption of the progress report presented by the EP Rapporteur for Serbia David McAllister, the Vice-President of the caucus of socialists and democrats in the European Parliament, Knut Fleckenstein, says that he believes that Serbia undoubtedly achieved good progress.