Politics of Kosovo

Austrian and Serbian presidents on sanctions against Russia

VIENNA -- Serbian and Austrian president Heinz Fischer and Tomislav Nikolić warned on Thursday about the consequences of introducing sanctions against Russia.

EU's EULEX mission in Kosovo will be extended by two years, despite resistance by the country's officials.

The Kosovo government is still consulting with European Union officials on the powers that the European rule-of-law mission will have after its mandate expires on June 14.

FRANKFURT - The Human Rights Advisory Panel (HRAP) of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) recommended in its annual report for 2013 that UNMIK publicly acknowledges its mistakes to which the families of the missing persons had pointed, and recommended to the European Union Rule of Law Mission (EULEX) to conduct an investigation and provide compensation to the fam

"Crimea won't cause EU to reconsider Kosovo"

BRUSSELS -- Presiding member of the EU Council of Ministers Dimitris Kourkoulas says the Crimea crisis will not cause the EU to reconsider "its decision" concerning Kosovo.

BELGRADE - Presiding member of the Council of Ministers of the EU Dimitris Kourkoulas has said that the Crimean crisis will not cause the EU to reconsider its decision concerning Kosovo.

Ashton on dialogue between Belgrade and Priština

BRUSSELS -- The prime ministers of Serbia and Kosovo, not the EU, are behind the Brussels agreement, EU High Representative Catherine Ashton has said.

Isa Mustafa, head of the opposition LDK, has accused Prime Minister Thaci of “using public and state resources to campaign. This is illegal," he said.

"He is putting the stability of the country at risk; similar actions by other politicians have led Greece, for example, into an economic crisis,” he said.

BRUSSELS - The EU is not the one behind the Brussels agreement, but the prime ministers of Serbia and Kosovo, EU High Representative Catherine Ashton has said at a panel discussion of the Brussels Forum.

She said at an annual forum of the German Marshall Fund the Brussels agreement was not her doing, but of Serbia's Prime Minister Ivica Dacic and Kosovo's Prime Minister Hasim Taci.

Kosovo's Prime Minister Hashim Thaci warned against making parallels between Crimea and Kosovo.