Federica Mogherini

"That's a logical sequence of events. Everything we agree on must go through some foreign body in order to gain international legitimacy, in order to verify what we have agreed," the Serbian foreign minister and first deputy PM has told Happy TV.

The EU will transfer a grant of 1.5-billion euros for Syrians in Turkey, according to EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini.

The US is applying massive pressure on Kosovo to accept such a deal - even though its main proponent on the Kosovo side, President Hashim Thaci, has been almost completely isolated domestically on the question.

Lebanon on Thursday warned its Mediterranean neighbors that a planned EastMed gas pipeline from Israel to the European Union must not be allowed to violate its maritime borders.

Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said this in Belgrade on Wednesday.

In a statement for 21, the Kosovo prime minister said he would not allow revoking of these taxes to be a condition for the continuation of the (Belgrade-Pristina) dialogue.

Opposition protesters throw flares while police officers protect Albania's parliament on 21 February 2019. Photo: Gjergj Erebara/BIRN

Opposition parties summoned their protesters on Thursday morning to near the parliament in Tirana, where police deployed about 1,000 officers, equipped with gas masks and some in full anti-riot gear.

The government is setting up an anti-disinformation unit to work by the end of the month. The unit will be in the structure of the Council of Ministers and will be responsibility of a Deputy Prime Minister, reports Dnevnik, citing their own sources. Its creation is enshrined in the Joint Action Plan of the European Commission and the European Parliament adopted in December last year.

Dacic spoke about delimitation "between Kosovo and Serbia on ethnic basis."

Haradinaj stressed that "such a thing has not been realized anywhere, ever."

EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini told this to reporters in Brussels on Monday.

"Until then, I do not see the conditions for a successful new round of talks in the dialogue," she said.