Kosovo

BUDAPEST - Kosovo's admission to UEFA membership is a political decision and a defeat for football, which could face unforeseeable consequences as a result, Football Association of Serbia (FSS) President Tomislav Karadzic said Tuesday.

BELGRADE - EU foreign policy and security chief Federica Mogherini on Thursday congratulated Kosovo on the European Commission's proposal to lift visa requirements for travellers from Kosovo and stressed the significance of Pristina's dialogue with Belgrade.

The visa liberalisation will have a positive impact on everyday life as well as politics, she said in Pristina.

According to the public opinion survey by the Kosovar Centre for Security Studies, KCSS, which was published on Thursday, 43 per cent of respondents would rather take action to protect themselves than call the police.

BIRN’s film The Unidentified, investigating the commanders responsible for some of the most brutal attacks of the Kosovo war, will screen at the upcoming BELDOCS international documentary festival.

The European Commission on Wednesday recommended to the Council of the European Union and the European Parliament that Kosovo should be transferred to the visa-free list for short stays in the Schengen zone.

It said that Kosovo has fulfilled the requirements of its visa liberalisation roadmap.

It has once again become evident that "some precedents" apply to Serbia, Labor Minister Aleksandar Vulin has said.

His comment came after UEFA decided to allow the Kosovo Football Association to join a member.

The decision whether to extradite two Kosovo Albanians accused of war crimes who were arrested in Switzerland on Serbian arrest warrants could take more than a month, Swiss authorities said.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic Sunday wished the Serbian citizens who are Orthodox Christian believers, especially the Serbs in Kosovo-Metohija, a happy Easter.
    
"The Christian faith implies the fact that Christ miraculosly altered the entire meaning of human existence and by victory over with death, made life possible.
    

GRACANICA - Head of the Serbian government's Office for Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) Marko Djuric attended the Easter liturgy in the Gracanica monastery in KiM and wished Orthodox Christian believers in Serbia a happy Easter.
    

The German Left Party has posed 31 questions relating to Serbia to the government in Berlin, Germany's state-run broadcaster Deutsche Welle is reporting.