Aleksandar Vučić's "Hell Week" ended the way it began: with thunderous statements, chest beating, promises to defend the Serbian people in Kosovo and Metohija, but without any progress in relations with Pristina...
Ten years after the progressives came to power and nine and a half years after the signing of the First Agreement on Normalization - which is the name of the so-called of the Brussels Agreement - Kosovo and Serbia are slowly but surely moving towards the day when the government in Prishtina will establish full control over all institutions in the north of the province as well. Sporadic tensions have now led to increased nervousness among the population in the north of Kosovo, but almost all of these people already have Kosovo ID cards, Kosovo traffic licenses, so what is the problem that instead of KM on the license plates they have 02, which is the designation for Kosovska Mitrovica?
The role and importance of persons like him remains an open question Milan Radoičić, whom his president of the Serbian List party, Goran Rakić, says has the greatest authority among Serbs. Even bigger than Vučić. By the way, hardly anyone is allowed to say Radoicic's name out loud in the north of Kosovo. It is usually said "those from Kopaonik", because he is with his business partner Call of the Veselinovićs surely anchored at the top of Serbia from where it has a good view of both Kosovo and Šumadija...
Read on full text by Slobodan Georgijev in the weekly "Vreme" from Thursday, August 25, 2022.
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