Eurasia Press & News
Cold claimed ten lives in the Balkans, while heavy snowfall has disrupted traffic throughout the region.In Serbia, the fifth victim of freezing temperatures was buried on Tuesday. Since the cold wave hit the Balkans at the weekend, ten people have died in Serbia and Croatia. Although most roads in Serbia …
Read More »Serbia Denies Kosovo Officers are ‘Ambassadors’
As Serbia and Kosovo get ready to appoint liaison officers, Belgrade dismisses claims that Kosovo’s officials are de facto ‘ambassadors’ to Serbia.Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dacic has dismissed Kosovo’s claims, that it is appointing an “ambassador” to Serbia. “Belgrade and Pristina will exchange liaison officers who do not enjoy the …
Read More »EU Countries Split Over Serbian Bid
Ahead of a meeting of EU foreign ministers, member countries remain divided over whether to offer Serbia a start date for membership talks this year or next.Senior officials in Brussels officials say that a split has emerged among EU member states on Serbian membership negotiations ahead of Tuesday’s meeting of …
Read More »Criticism of Serbia’s Rights Record Upsets Progressives
Serbian NGOs have lambasted the government’s rights record in a report issued on world human rights day.Serbia has seen a negative trend in terms of the protection of human rights since the formation of the new government, Serbian NGOs said in a report released on world human rights day.
Read More »Serbia Unlikely to Start EU Accession Talks Before June
EU foreign ministers will recommend that Serbia gets a start date for EU accession talks in six months.Serbia will not get a date for the start of the EU accession negotiations until the next steps in the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue are made, says a document that the EU foreign ministers should …
Read More »Artists and Academics to Help Reconciliation in Region
Art and education should be used to bring about reconciliation in the region of the former Yugoslavia, a Sarajevo round table heard.Bosnian and regional academics and artists have met in Sarajevo on Friday to discuss their role in the regional reconciliation following the 1990s wars. Dino Mustafic, a Bosnian director, …
Read More »Croatian, Serbian Officials Meet Following ICTY Verdicts
The Serbian and Croatian high officials have met for the first time since the ICTY acquittal of two Croatian generals in an effort to restore cooperation after their relations worsened over the last several months.Serbia’s Deputy Prime Minister, Aleksandar Vucic, met his Croatian counterpart, Neven Mimica, on Saturday on the …
Read More »Serbia’s Far Right Wants NGOs Labelled as ‘Foreign Agents’
A Belgrade based far right group has requested that all the country’s NGOs and media funded from abroad, including BIRN, be labelled as “foreign agents”, based on a Russian model.On Friday, the Serbian far-right movement “SNP Nasi” called on the authorities to pass a law that would label all NGOs …
Read More »Serbian Judges Receive Death Threats
The Serbian Constitutional Court has received a letter with death threats addressed to the court’s judges and their families.An unknown group sent on Thursday a letter to the Serbian Constituational Court threatening to kill its 11 judges. “Based on the findings and declarations, the world’s pan-Serb alliance in defence of …
Read More »Russia, Serbia Criticise the ICTY before the UN
At a meeting of the UN Security Council, Russia and Serbia slammed the recent Hague Tribunal acquittals while the ICTY Chief Prosecutor praised the cooperation with the countries in the region.Speaking on Wednesday at the bi annual meeting of the UN Security Council on work of the UN war crime …
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