European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo

The Special Chamber of the Kosovo Supreme Court has requested the annulment of the Law on Trepca.

Kosovo-based broadcaster RTK is reporting that an EULEX (EU mission in Kosovo) first instance judge of the Supreme Court's Special Chamber found the law was "unconstitutional for two reasons, both based on fundamental rights that guarantee the property in Article 46 of the Constitution."

LUXEMBOURG - The EU has encouraged Serbia to intensify implementation of reforms in key areas such as the judiciary, the fight against corruption and organised crime, and freedom of expression and the media, and also expects Belgrade to further normalise its ties with Pristina and align its foreign policy with the EU.

LUXEMBOURG - The EU has encouraged Serbia to intensify implementation of reforms in key areas such as the judiciary, the fight against corruption and organised crime, and freedom of expression and the media, and also expects Belgrade to further normalise its ties with Pristina and align its foreign policy with the EU.

BELGRADE - The EU member states on Wednesday reached an agreement in principle to extend the Eulex mandate by at least two years, Pristina's Koha ditore paper reported on Thursday, citing diplomatic sources.

The EU is ready for a continuation of the EULEX mission in Kosovo under a new mandate that would imply a smaller presence and reduced executive powers.

Tanjug agency said it learned this in Brussels on Thursday.

"Small number of people we had to arrest as we believe they facilitated the land being stolen. One of those people is Azem Syla," Alan Edwards, EULEX Chief of Organised Crime Investigation Unit told BIRN TV show Justice in Kosovo.

Azem Syla has surrendered to investigative organs of the EU mission in Kosovo (EULEX), Tanjug reported on Friday, quoting Serbia's state broadcaster RTS.

Syla is a member of the Kosovo Assembly from the ranks of President Hashim Thaci's party, the PDK, and is also Thaci's uncle.

Six persons have been arrested in Kosovo on suspicion of links to organized crime and activities that damaged the Kosovo budget and Serb families from Kosovo.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - The defense team of Citizens' Initiative SDP (GI SDP) leader Oliver Ivanovic has filed an appeal against a verdict by which Ivanovic was sentenced to nine years in prison, the GI SDP said in a release on Monday.
    

The Kosovo government has sent a plan for the transfer of all powers of the EU mission, EULEX, to local authorities.

This has been reported by the Albanian-language daily Koha Ditore, quoted by Tanjug.