News
Kosovo: Justina Široka Pulja is the new president
The Assembly of Kosovo elected economist Justina Široka Pulja as president with 81 votes, which is one vote more than required in the parliament of 120 deputies.
Chronicle
Triple murder in Gjilan
In the shooting in Gnjilan, three people were killed and several were injured, the police issued a warrant for the suspect, and the media published his photo with the President of Kosovo, Vjosa Osmani, and the Prime Minister, Aljbina Kurti.
KiM
North of Kosovo: Explosion, arrests and international condemnations
The Kosovo authorities claim that the explosion on the Ibar-Lepenac canal is a "terrorist act" supported by the Serbian state apparatus. Serbian Defense Minister Bratislav Gašić denies the accusations, while Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić addresses the citizens at 11:XNUMX a.m
KiM
Closure of Serbian institutions in the North: "Belgrade leaves the job to Pristina"
Serbian institutions in the north of Kosovo have been closed for thirteen days. Four young men of Serbian nationality were arrested in the northern part of Kosovska Mitrovica. In an interview for "Vreme", journalist Ana Marija Ivković says that all of this looks like Belgrade is "leaving the job to Priština", so that it can later defend itself if the Serbian authorities are not to blame.
Belgrade and Pristina
Noje Zircher Zeitung: "Vučić is buying time, Kurti is in a hurry"
The press in German writes about the tensions between Serbia and Kosovo and assesses that nothing good is in store for the future
2023 Elections
Čedomir Jovanović claims that he is going to a meeting with Kurti
"I'm sorry that you can't see the reactions of the Serbian and Albanian policemen, the Serb says "help us understand each other" the Albanian with a smile while extending his hand "welcome to Kosovo Serbs, keep peace for us so that we all live", wrote Čedomir Jovanović on network X
Politics
Vučić before tomorrow's meeting in Brussels
He will call elections next week, one child's life is more important than all the built highways and 1440 bridges, he expects that the talks tomorrow in Brussels will pass in a good atmosphere, pensions and salaries will be higher - these are some of the topics of the almost half-hour guest appearance of the president on RTS
KiM
Kurti agrees with the plan on the Association of Serbian Municipalities
The agenda of tomorrow's meeting in Brussels is not known, and it is expected that there will be no bilateral meeting between Vučić and Kurti. Today, the Government of Kosovo announced that it agrees with the new plan of the European Union, which includes a draft for the formation of the Community of Serbian Municipalities
Politics
Vučić on CNN: There is no reason to worry at the moment
While guesting tonight on CNN before going to "Cirilica", Vucic spoke about Kosovo, he did not answer directly about Radoicic, nor about the signing of the agreement with Pristina
Region
Bled: Verbal conflict between Brnabić and Kurti
The only thing that Pristina should have done was the formation of the ZSO - said Brnabić. Serbia is not even thinking about imposing sanctions on Russia, and has not distanced itself from either Milosevic or Putin - Kurti said.
Chronicle
Albania: Kurti's deputy caught with over 1000 ecstasy pills
Self-determination MP Besnik Mujeci was arrested in Albania on suspicion of smuggling and selling narcotics. He was previously under police surveillance for three months
Kosovo Chronicle
Reanimation of the Ohrid Agreement
After a week of tension and the pre-war situation came a week of anticipation. The conflicting parties are in the same positions, the mediators are in the region. It looks like there is nothing to the deal
Kosovo and Metohija
USA: Punishment for Kosovo, we have no interest in lobbying for independence
The cancellation of Kosovo's participation in military exercises is the first consequence for the Government of Kosovo, because it rejected Washington's calls not to escalate the situation in the north, said US Ambassador Jeffrey Hovenier.
Crisis in Kosovo
Aljbin Kurti: We continue with vehicle re-registration
Kosovo institutions continue their engagement in the re-registration of license plates from KS to RKS, and Belgrade sows fear and panic among the citizens of Kosovo and does all this only to mask its rejection of the German-French plan for the solution of the Kosovo crisis, says the Prime Minister of Kosovo
News
New attempts towards a solution: Lajcak, Escobar, Scholz, Hill
The intention of Europe and the USA for Vučić and Kurti to come to an agreement is obvious. Meetings between Pristina and Belgrade with Lajcak and Escobar are expected by the end of this week. Scholz is preparing a meeting with Vucic and Kurti in the fall
News
Electricity restrictions in Kosovo: Bad energy situation, losses
Electricity restrictions in Kosovo: Bad energy situation, losses Today, electricity restrictions began in Kosovo. The reasons are the poor energy situation and the inability to buy electricity. Companies for the production and distribution of electricity are at a loss of 46 million euros. Citizens are dissatisfied
News
EU to Belgrade and Pristina: Stop with inflammatory rhetoric
Senior politicians from both sides will be held accountable for any escalation that leads to increased tensions, and potentially, violence in the region. Brussels' warning comes to Serbia and Kosovo three days before the planned meeting between Kosovo Prime Minister Aljbin Kurti and Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić in Brussels. Judging by the atmosphere in which the two leaders go to talk, it is difficult to expect concrete developments. In recent days, Kurti and Vučić have been accusing each other of possible violence in Kosovo
News
North of Kosovo: Tensions before the constitution of the Assembly
After a meeting with international partners, Pristina decided to postpone the implementation of decisions on Serbian identity cards and license plates until September 1. Coincidentally or not, tensions in the north of Kosovo intensified less than a day before the constitutive session of the National Assembly in Belgrade.
News
North of Kosovo: Barricades, phantoms, gunshots
After the air danger sirens, the Serbs from the north blocked several main roads to the Jarinje and Brnjak border crossings. The Pristina authorities have decided to cross the prisons, while the Ministry of Defense of Serbia says that the Army, for now, has not crossed the territory of Kosovo. Kurti tells citizens not to allow the Belgrade media to misinform them
News
President Vučić: I am asking for peace, but Serbia will win
What should the Serbs in Kosovo do when they are stopped by the Kosovo police at midnight tonight at the administrative border, President Vučić did not specifically answer. According to the KoSSeva survey, more than 65 percent of a total of 1.140 citizens from the North will not remove their KM plates and register their vehicles at the RKS. President Vučić asked everyone for peace, and said that if anyone dares to attack the Serbs, Serbia will win.
News
Before today's address of the president: What you must know
President Aleksandar Vučić will announce to the people what he agreed with the Serbs from Kosovo yesterday at ten o'clock today. Pristina is ready to start implementing its decision on the markings on car plates tomorrow. Serbia's answer will be the formation of the Union of Serbian Municipalities
Analyze
Dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia: Mutual accusations of sabotage
Kurti says that Vučić and Serbia are postponing the meeting in Brussels, and Vučić is calling for the help of the Quinte country in order to make Kurti understand. While the chances of an early dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia at the highest level in Brussels are small, from August 1 Pristina will start applying the decision on changes to the plates and the regime for entry from the territory of Serbia, which Belgrade claimed until recently that heralds a "new Storm".
News
Serbs in Kosovo: Politically disempowered, controlled from Belgrade
Tatjana Lazarevic believes that the Serbs in Kosovo organically do not support the decisions of the Government from Pristina that have to do with integration into the Kosovo system, not even the last one about license plates. The only question is how loudly and to what extent they will say it, especially those in the north politically disempowered and controlled from Belgrade
News
Dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina: Recognition of Kosovo's independence as a condition
Serbian recognition of Kosovo is a condition for the end of the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina, but also for the continuation of Serbia's path towards membership in the European Union, this is the basic conclusion from the meetings of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz with the President of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić and Prime Minister of Kosovo Aljbin Kurti in Berlin
Comment
Vučić at Solac: A point away from home would be like home
Scholz is a cold man who knows how to work with numbers. Dependence on Russian gas, the price of energy, jobs, that's a language he understands. In Soltz's world, sanctions are not a matter of morality, and Vučić could trade with him politically. The trouble is that it is more about what Serbia can lose than what it can gain
News
Protests in Kosovo: When voting becomes secondary
On April 3, Serbs from Kosovo will vote for the first time on the territory of Serbia. And yet, at today's meeting in Kosovska Mitrovica and Gračanica, they did not protest because they were prevented from voting in the territory where they live, but they demanded that the suspended president of the Basic Court in Mitrovica return to work
News
Continuation of negotiations between Belgrade and Pristina: Concretely, without results
After a three and a half month break, the delegations of Serbia and Kosovo returned to the negotiating table. Separate talks with EU representatives were intense and specific. Whether any progress has been made remains unknown. As things stand now, the Serbian side still insists on the implementation of the ZSO, and Kosovo on mutual recognition