The Empirika Advocacy Platform, which is comprised of media representatives and non-governmental organizations from the Kosovo-Serb community, expresses its strong opposition to the awarding of a prize for ‘best practices in the implementation of the Law on the Use of Languages’ in a moment when we’re seeing numerous examples of how public institutions violate the right to information in the Serbian language, and when timely and linguistically correct information in the Serbian language is not forthcoming in the vast majority of cases.

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When Baroness Catherine Ashton and Serbian and Kosovo Prime Ministers Ivica Dačić and Hashim Thaçi signed the first agreement between Belgrade and Priština/Prishtine on April 19, 2013, in Brussels, after that nothing was the same in northern Kosovo, writes Milivoje Mihajlović.

The need for free movement in Kosovo, but also through central Serbia has been a topic of conversations for more than twenty years For more than a decade, attempts were made in Brussels to find a solution. Unfortunately, the signed agreements were not applied properly, so the citizens, by no fault of their own, suffered humiliation, waited in columns, listened to the statements and tried to understand them. During all that time, they paid for double plates and registrations, and then Serbian trial ones, and recently Kosovo ones. They only got stickers and stress for free.

Sophie Guyot, a Swiss artist, presented the Stardust Mitrovica project on 1^st of October in North Mitrovica. The project which will be implemented alongside NGO AKTIV, will address history of families that lived in both parts of the divided city of Mitrovica, with a historical overview of this conflictual area in a peaceful and reconciliatory manner.