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  1. Jun 2019
    1. The reasons vary from promoting specific political goals to simply increasing clicks and circulation of the media.

      simply increasing clicks should not be underestimated. crisis sells.

    2. in 2018 the tabloids Informer and Srpski Telegraf have announced 265 occasions of war and conflicts on their front pages. 47 of these invented wars were supposed to be conducted by “Ustashe” (pejorative name for Croats) and 30 by “Shiptars” (pejorative name for Kosovo Albanians).

      war rhetoric, permanent sense of crisis

    3. According to Serbian fact-checking portal Raskrikavanje, more than 700 false or unverified news stories were published on the front pages of three Serbian tabloids (Informer, Alo and Srpski Telegraf) in 2018.

      Tabloids close to Vucic i.e. government, but open support for Putin

  2. Sep 2018
  3. May 2018
  4. Apr 2018
    1. In the first seven months of the year, there were more than 105 incidents involving thefts, break-ins, verbal harassment, and damage to the property of Kosovo Serbs and the Serbian Orthodox Church.

      According to my calculations, this seems quite favorable compared to overall population. According to Kosovo Police 2016 Annual Report, there were 11,369 thefts in Kosovo in 2016 or about 150 persons per incident of theft. By extrapolating figure given here, for all of 2017 I assumed 180 incidents of theft, break-in, verbal harassment and damage to property among Kosovo Serbs, a much wider definition than above, distributed among I assumed 60,000 Serbs living in areas where Serbs would be a minority and I get 333 persons for each incident.

    1. Hate speech and discriminatory terminology is often tolerated in the media and is rarely tackled by regulatory authorities or prosecutors.

      Rabid hate speech, especially against Kosovo Albanians. And this is all EC could muster?

    1. Air quality plans for zones where the levels of pollutants visibly exceed limit values by a wide margin, especially in winter, have still not been prepared and adopted.

      Repeated request.

    2. On copyright and related rights, no progress was made in implementing relevant legislation on private copy schemes and digital piracy.

      These are negative EU standards.

    3. On aviation, Kosovo has made progress in aligning with the EU acquis and has implemented nearly all the requirements under the first transitional phase of the European Common Aviation Area (ECAA) Agreement

      Nice

  5. Jan 2018
  6. May 2016
    1. In some cases, centuries-old buildings were bulldozed, including a historic library in Gjakova and several 400-year-old mosques

      This was done by the Serbs, not Wahhabbs.

  7. Apr 2016