Federica Mogherini

Pristina also imposed non-tariff barriers, and Brussels once again made a "strong" demand for the measures to be lifted immediately, Beta agency reported, citing a press release issued after a session of the EU-Kosovo Council for Stabilization and Association.

Citing Pristina-based Koha Ditore's report from Brussels, the agency said that EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini and EU commissioners for trade, and neighborhood policy and enlargement negotiations have sent a joint letter to Haradinaj.

In it, they "offer a solution to the problem related to taxes with Serbia."

Bosnia-Herzegovin' s Foreign Trade and Economic Relations Minister Mirko Sarovic said, commenting on Pristina's measures, aimed also against goods from central Serbia, that there was no need to resort to countermeasures - but that BiH's response could be a request for the exclusion of Kosovo from agreements that guarantee free trade.

Three former High Represenatives to Bosnia, Carl Bildt, Paddy Ashdown, and Christian Schwarz-Schilling, expressed their concern in an open letter to EU Foreign Policy Chief Federica Mogherini on Thursday over Croatian attempts to dispute the legitimacy of the election of Zeljko Komsic as the Bosnian Croat member of the state's tripartite presidency.

NATO ministers meeting on Tuesday in Brussels called on Bosnia to submit its first annual national program, after agreeing to start implementing its Membership Action Plan, MAP, which was first offered years ago.

The programme of advice, assistance and practical support is designed for countries wishing to join the Atlantic alliance.

Developments in the Western Balkans and the European Union membership ambitions of countries in the region were at the center of talks between Alternate Foreign Minister Giorgos Katrougalos and the bloc's foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini on Wednesday.

Talks were held on the sidelines of the NATO foreign ministers' meeting at the Alliance's headquarters in Brussels.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said this in Brussels on Monday.

Stoltenberg spoke ahead of a meeting of NATO foreign ministers on Wednesday, when "Western Balkan countries' relations with NATO" will also be considered together with EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini.

As a crisis over Kosovo's import tax hikes continues in Serb-majority northern Kosovo, a former Serbian Minister for Kosovo, Goran Bogdanovic, says that he expects a "status quo" to settle in before the import taxes on Serbian products are scrapped.

"I believe that this decision [to raise taxes on Serbian imports] will be revoked very soon," Boganovic told BIRN.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu denounced Greece Friday, claiming it doesn't uphold the rights of the Muslim minority in Western Thrace and doesn't allow its members to call themselves "Turks."

Turkey on Friday criticized the European Union's foreign policy chief for her comments on the rule of law in Turkey, a day after she and another official rebuked Ankara over arrests of journalists and the detention of a Kurdish politician.