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Pandemic leaves Kosovo without printed daily newspapers FLORENT BAJRAMI and LLAZAR SEMINI, Associated Press May 3, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 9 1of9Vendor Ibrahim Gashi, arranges weekly and monthly magazines at his newspaper kiosk were he has been selling newspapers downtown for 35 consecutive years except one, in the capital Pristina, Thursday, April 29, 2021. The printing presses stopped running at the start of the pandemic in Kosovo. The country's five dailies all stopped printing physical newspapers and turned into online media portals. But these do not reach all the people as...

Koha Ditore that broke the story, late on April 26. According to the daily, the “non-paper” is French and German in origin and outlines how the current Kosovo-Serbia standstill could be resolved by February of next year. The paper suggests that the European Union will continue to facilitate the negotiation process between Kosovo and Serbia, a process which will lead to a “legally binding” agreement that resolves all open questions and clears a path for both countries towards European integration. Serbia would agree to not oppose Kosovo’s requests for membership of international org...

He added that the non-paper has been created by a very clever woman he knows. After the phantom non-paper detailing changes to national borders in the Balkans surfaced, causing much controversy in the region, Kosovo daily Koha Ditore published another document on solving the Serbia-Kosovo dispute, which the newspaper claimed was a joint initiative of Germany and France, something that was denied by the two countries’ embassies to Kosovo. According to Koha, the document says that Vučić and Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti will conduct talks to finalise the agreement to normalise relation...

The EU, France and Germany have distanced themselves from reports of a deal that would see Serbia and Kosovo recognise each other's sovereignty. Media reports in Pristina had claimed that Berlin and Paris had led discussions on an agreement between the two. Kosovo declared independence from Serbia in 2008, a decade after a brutal war between separatist ethnic Albanian rebels and Serb forces. Belgrade refuses to recognise it and solving this issue is key if either wants to join the EU. The deal was reportedly recorded in a "non-paper", an EU term for an unofficial document shared confident...

The United States voiced full support and pledged to help the Western Balkan countries’ efforts to join the European Union on Monday (27 April), after an unofficial diplomatic note suggesting border changes in the region raised fears of renewed ethnic tensions in the south-eastern corner of Europe. The note, a non-paper first reported by Ljubljana-based outlet necenzurirano.si, proposed incorporating parts of Bosnia into Serbia and Croatia, as well as a unification of Kosovo and Albania, to accelerate the region’s EU integration. The documents’ contents, questions about its authenticit...