A citizen from Prizren (name known to the editorial office) was convicted this morning by the Kosovo police because of Serbian license plates, which he says he keeps because he often travels for business.

The same states for KosovaPress that he informed the police that he was not aware of the measure of reciprocity in the license plates, but that it was not taken into account by them.

The fine of 60 euros, which was imposed today due to Serbian license plates, is a burden for him because he says that if he had a prior notice he would travel to Istanbul on Sunday, where he says he has left.

“The police gave me a fine of 60 euros, but also instructed me not to place them anymore because he said that they do not know what is being done in such cases. He told me: “Do not put them back because I know what can be done, I can confiscate them completely”, he says.

By a decision of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Kosovo Police is not allowing any vehicle with Serbian license plates to enter the country.

Meanwhile, this morning, numerous police forces were sent to all border crossings. Police patrols were also seen on the streets of Kosovo who were checking the vehicles for the license plates they were holding.

We recall that Serbia has been forcing the citizens of Kosovo for several years to exchange license plates with temporary ones in order to be allowed entry.

The German state is obliging all our emigrants to be vaccinated, after returning from Kosovo.

Indeksonline has provided a letter sent to an expatriate (name known to the editorial office) stating that he should definitely be vaccinated.

Although the test was negative, official Berlin definitely requires anti-covid vaccination.

“Since travelers returning from Albania, Bosnia, Kosovo… etc. have greatly contributed to the spread of the coronavirus. “Despite a negative test, many of them were infected.” it is said in the letter.

It is also recommended that they take the test within 7 days.

Below, the documents:

On 20 August at around 19:50, the border police patrol unit of the Police Station for Border Surveillance Muqivercë, during the patrol in the border area above the village Korminjan-Ranillug, stopped two tractors with improvised trailers that had come from Serbia to Kosovo.

The tractors were driven by two Kosovar men who had used illegal routes to smuggle goods illegally.

Police patrol has arrested the two suspects, while the goods and tractors have been sent to the customs terminal.

“A criminal case ‘smuggling of goods’ is initiated against two suspects. With the decision of the prosecutor, the case is proceeded in a regular procedure “, it is said in the notification of the Police. / Voice

The Beer Festival organized in Korça will return this year from August 18-22.

Among the participants, it is noticeable that the Serbian singer Goran Bregovic will also be invited.

This news was confirmed by the festival organizers themselves, who consider Bregovic as a special guest of the final night.

This news was not well received by Kosovo Albanians, who consider Goran Bregovic as one of the artists who inspired the massacres of Serbs against Kosovo.

Bregovic was the inspiration and idol of the Serbian army during the war in Kosovo, especially with the song “Kal.ashnikov”.

This news has been reported in the Kosovo media and Vesa Luma has also reacted in relation to it.

Not believing this news, she writes in a post: “I am convinced that it is a misinformation”.

But then she received a message from a “fan” from Albania that shocked her.

The person in question writes that Kosovo Albanians should forget the war and already make peace with Serbs.

But what has revived the artist the most is that fans say that Serbs should have killed more Kosovo Albanians.

“Why not be invited, you Kosovars are left with paranoia, after the war comes peace.

“Even though the war is over, you are boiling with blood for hatred, because some Kosovars I have known have left the Serbs alive in vain”, writes the fans.

Vesa has shared this message with everyone and writes on the side: “How is it possible that hundreds of messages like this come to me… is it possible? I am totally in shock… “.

The chairman of the Social Democratic Party, Fatmir Limaj has reacted after the accident in Croatia where 10 people were killed.

He says he is shocked by this event.

“I am shocked by the tragic event of this morning, where in Croatia, a bus of the Germany-Kosovo line was injured, but according to reports, unfortunately there are also victims. The most sincere condolences to the families who have lost their loved ones “As soon as possible for the passengers who suffered injuries in this tragic accident. We are extremely grateful to the authorities in Croatia for the immediate commitment to come to the aid of passengers returning from Germany to their homeland,” Limaj wrote on Facebook. / Voice

Ulcinj is one of the favorite destinations for Kosovars.

The beautiful beaches that characterize this place, make tourists take you away more and more every day.

But one thing that sets Ulcinj apart the most are the nu.do beaches, which are known all over the world.

One of the most popular beaches is the women’s beach, which started operating 60 years ago and which is visited only by women.

Maja Markovic, one of the owners of a hotel on this beach tells ATV that there are guards everywhere and this beach is provided only for women.

But these beaches in Ulcinj are said to be very little frequented by Kosovars.

The reasons for this are various.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kosovo has reacted to the situation created after the floods in Germany.

This ministry emphasizes that Germany stayed close to Kosovo, so the Kosovar people remain with the German in this difficult time.

“We are shocked and saddened by the terrible consequences of the storm in Germany. We mourn the victims with their families. Germany stood by us in times of need. The minds of the people in Kosovo are with the people in Germany “, it is said in the statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs posted on Twitter. / Voice

The Prime Minister of Albania, Edi Rama is participating in the “Symi Symposium” in Greece. From Athens, he said on Wednesday that everything should be done to make the region similar to the European Union, to implement the four EU freedoms, to make the borders fluid and to do such trade.

“I can give you a figure that is interesting to economists here. The waiting time for trucks at the Balkan borders, to cross them, to go to Thessaloniki or Durrës is 1100 years a year. So trucks wait 1,100 years at the border just to cross the region’s non-tariff barriers and submit double, sometimes triple, phytosanitary documents, for example. So the solution to this would be the extraordinary unleashing of a potential and if we manage to have this, the effect on our GDP will be very large, only with this, without investment, simply by removing non-tariff barriers in the region. “This is something we have discussed for a long time,” Rama said.

Rama has criticized the EU, saying that the path to the integration of the Western Balkans is dependent on EU nationalists.

“I must say that the Bulgarian attitude is a result of what Bulgaria is learning within the EU from the great ones. Bulgaria learned that you can use local politics to block others. In the Balkans when we copy it we go further than the original. When we entered this process of European integration we were told that this was the magic potion against nationalism, to make us more open and democratic. But with what is happening now we are increasingly hostage to EU nationalization, in practice the path of integration of the Western Balkans is increasingly dependent on EU nationalism. When I talk about the nationalism of the EU, I am talking about the nationalism of important countries that hold non-nationalist leaders hostage and fall prey to these games of using the European Council to squeeze the Balkan countries and on the other hand to ‘show muscles to their peoples. So it is not true that the EC has a cohesive decision regarding the geostrategic vision of things, it is a place where EU nationalisms through non-nationalist leaders play games. “Bulgaria is collateral damage in this regard,” he said.

He further said that “the EU needs the Balkans as much as the Balkans need the EU. “It’s not the job we need them for and they do not need us.”

The head of government said, “We practically started the process from the beginning as a Schengen regional area to limit what it was, which means an area where all four freedoms apply. So we named it that. We lost several years, because Vuçiç wanted the free movement of goods, capital, but not people, because if he did, the border between Kosovo and Albania would be formal. He took the step further after I told him if he does not fully accept it for the four freedoms we are doing what we have done throughout our history, we are becoming the caricature of the original.

He added: “Highways may not bring democracy, but democracy without highways is a mess that goes to hell. So we said let the three of us do it, not to divide others, not to exclude others, but to say, whoever joins is welcome and only relied on on a bilateral basis, does not rely on consensus and things like that “It is bilateral.”

Rama also mentioned the isolation of Kosovo, saying that being isolated from the EU but also among oneself is a madness.

“If we want to do this with Northern Macedonia, we do it, if Kosovo will do it with us, with Northern Macedonia with anyone else, it will not do it with Serbia, let it not do it. It is very clear that Serbia can not say that Kosovo must either do it all or with no one, so it is something open and it can allow us to go very far. So what does it mean to be isolated from the EU and to be isolated among yourself? “It is madness, utter madness.”

Of course, Rama continued, there are also conspiracy theories that this is the new Yugoslavia plus Albania, this is the alternative that the Europeans are giving us in order to take us somewhere.

“No, it is not like that, because in the end through this process we will learn how to live in an interstate space and when it comes to being part of the EU we will be more willing. I see it as something big “, said Rama.

Long columns have been created at the Vërmica border crossing.

According to the data of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, columns up to 70 meters have been created at the exit of Kosovo.

It seems that Kosovars have managed to spend their weekends in Albania.

We recall that only at the beginning of June at the border crossing of Vërmicë were registered over 30 thousand vacationers from Kosovo who headed to the Albanian coast.

Although it is the second year of the pandemic, the citizens of Kosovo are seen as the savior of tourism in Albania.

About 100 Kosovars continue to remain in Syria and Iraq. According to the latest data from the Kosovo Police, there are mostly children there.

In a written response to Radio Free Europe, the Kosovo Police said that according to the latest data in their possession, there are still 96 Kosovars in the conflict zone, of which 43 men, nine women and 44 children, (including 32 children born in the conflict zone by at least one Kosovar parent). Meanwhile, the Atlantic Initiative from Sarajevo says that 97 people from Kosovo continue to be in the conflict zones, while 400 in total from the Western Balkans.

In April 2019, Kosovo institutions, assisted by US authorities, repatriated a group of 110 Kosovars, including four foreign fighters, 32 women and 74 children.

But for the remaining group in Syria, Kosovo institutions have not yet provided any information on whether work is underway for their repatriation.

Speaking at the meeting of the Global Coalition against the militant group, Islamic State, Kosovo’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, Donika Gërvalla, said that Kosovo has been committed to the reintegration of returnees from Syria.

“We are taking special care of women and their children. We must do everything we can to return them to a normal life, to hope for a happy future for them “, declared Minister Gërvalla.

Gërvalla said that the process of reintegration of returnees has been successful and that programs for deradicalization have been created.

“We have not only managed to get the children back to school, but we also provide psychological support for them and their mothers. “Furthermore, we have created programs for deradicalization, which include even people who are in custody,” she said.

In this meeting of the Global Coalition against IS held in Rome, Italy, Minister Gërvalla did not speak about the 96 Kosovars who continue to be in Syria.

Since Kosovars began joining the war in Syria and Iraq in 2013, Kosovo Police have said they have arrested about 20 people for terrorism-related offenses.

Since the start of the war in Syria in March 2011, about 400 Kosovars have traveled to Syria and Iraq.

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