Kosovo

Kosovo Serbs hope that President Tomislav Nikolic’s new ‘Kosovo platform’ will finally address the longstanding issue of Serbs who were abducted or went missing during and after the war.

EU foreign policy chief "treats Kosovo as state"

European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini "has continued to treat Kosovo as a state," Beta is reporting.

This comes "despite EU's neutral position (on Kosovo's status)," the agency added in a report on Tuesday.

Kosovo platform seen as "last hope"

BELGRADE -- The Association of the Families of Kidnapped and Murdered Serbs has said that the announced platform for Kosovo "is the last hope for the kidnapped."

The platform should be presented by President Tomislav Nikolic.

Kosovo teens "prevented from joining Islamic State"

PRISTINA -- Two 14-year-old girls from Kosovo who planned to travel to Syria "in order to join the Islamic State" have been returned home.

Jihadi from Kosovo killed in Syria

PRISTINA -- A Kosovo Albanian from the Klina municipality in Kosovo and Metohija who joined the Islamic State in Syria has been killed.

This is according to the Pristina-based Albanian language daily Express, which named the person as Ekrem Hasani.

PM expected to travel to U.S. in early June

BELGRADE -- Aleksandar Vucic has said that his upcoming trip to the United States is "very important and expected to produce even better relations" with that country.

Newer EU member states in Central and Eastern Europe, including Croatia, could come under pressure to take in more asylum-seekers as Germany voices irritation about the numbers heading for a select few countries.

On the one hand, violence is re-erupting in Bosnia. On the other hand, Albania and Serbia seem to be at odds. And Serbia still doesn?t accept Kosovo?s independence.

What is happening in the Balkans? Are we on the brink of a new war in Bosnia and Kosovo?

I asked these questions to Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama who I recently had the chance to have a tête?à?tête with. 

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Minister for Communities and Return in the Kosovo government Dalibor Jevtic stated Friday that only one Serb family has returned to Kosovo since the Prime Minister Isa Mustafa's government was set up.

EC's Kosovo SAA "based on Taiwan model"

BRUSSELS -- The European Commission on Thursday adopted the Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA) proposal for Kosovo and sent it to the Council for consideration.

However, "it still does not mean that Kosovo could soon become a candidate for membership of the European Union," Tanjug said it learned in Brussels.