Balkans

The more incidents of violence occur, the less likely Belgrade and Pristina are to compromise. Brussels should increase pressure on both parties to conclude an agreement. Until four days ago, Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vučić was in a comfortable position. In the eyes of the EU and U.S. negotiators involved in …

Serbian Government Office for Kosovo and Metohija Director Petar Petkovic said EULEX did not participate in the Kosovo Police investigation only because the KP wanted to hide certain evidence and to hide the truth — that Serbs were murdered in cold blood, torture and brutality by the KP. “This should …

The armed conflict in Banjska is a complete collapse of Vucic’s policy in Kosovo, Zarko Korac said in the broadcast “Behind the News” of TV N1. Vucic, according to him, probably does not bear the blame for this event, but bears responsibility. Zarko Korac, former Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia …

It remains an open question whether differing ethnic and/or religious groups – tribes if you will – can share a state without conflict turning into ethnic cleansing. Since antiquity, history offers few examples except at times in large multi-ethnic empires such as the Roman, Ottoman and American. Even in the …

On the occasion of the incident in the village of Banjska in the north of Kosovo, in which one policeman of the Kosovo Police and three attackers were killed, the Government of Serbia declared Wednesday, September 27, a Day of Mourning. In a statement, the government stated that it is …

“The Day of Mourning in Serbia is a bad signal, it is distasteful to declare a Day of Mourning for a terrorist act, and a terrorist act became when a police officer was killed. So the whole story is distasteful in that context,” said the head of the Committee for …

People say “it’s not the neck but the neck”, but that joke is wrong. Because neck and neck are not exactly the same, although they mean the same thing – the part of the body that holds the head. But there are no complete synonyms because the words resonate differently …

On the territory of the municipality of Zvečan in the atar of the village of Banjska, the body of a third person who is suspected of attacking the Kosovo police was found today, the Special Prosecutor’s Office of Kosovo stated this evening. The announcement followed the news published in the …

In the first reactions to the armed conflicts since Sunday morning in Banjska , Kosovo, the pro-European opposition expressed condolences for the dead, sharply criticized the policy of the President of Serbia as unsuccessful because it turned the Serbs into hostages, and demanded a new approach to the region. Due …

Professor of the Faculty of Law in Novi Sad and former president of the provincial government of Vojvodina, Bojan Pajtić, said in Iza vesti that the first thing that must be sought is “the return of Serbian policemen to the north of Kosovo.” According to him, “we are certainly not …