{"id":41980,"date":"2026-06-23T19:20:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T17:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/kie-approves-the-report-on-serbia-normalization-of-relations-with-kosovo-is-crucial-for-eu-membership\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T19:20:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T17:20:17","slug":"kie-approves-the-report-on-serbia-normalization-of-relations-with-kosovo-is-crucial-for-eu-membership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/kie-approves-the-report-on-serbia-normalization-of-relations-with-kosovo-is-crucial-for-eu-membership\/","title":{"rendered":"KiE approves the report on Serbia: Normalization of relations with Kosovo is crucial for EU membership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/KIE-1140x570-1.jpg\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;margin-bottom:20px\"><\/p>\n<p>The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has today approved the report &#8220;The functioning of democratic institutions in Serbia&#8221;, where it is emphasized that the normalization of relations with Kosovo is a crucial issue for Serbia&#8217;s progress towards the European Union.<\/p>\n<p>The report, prepared by the rapporteurs Victoria Tiblom (Sweden) and Yunus Emre (Turkey), underlines that Serbia still does not recognize the independence of Kosovo and that the full normalization of relations remains one of the main conditions for its membership in EU.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The normalization of Serbia&#8217;s relations with Kosovo, whose independence Serbia does not recognize, remains a serious issue and is also decisive for the country&#8217;s membership in the European Union&#8221;, the report emphasizes.<\/p>\n<p>The report also mentions the events of Banjska in September 2023.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On April 24, 2026, a court in Pristina announced the verdict regarding the events in Banjska in September of the year 2023, during which the police clashed with a group of armed Serbs, leaving four people dead. The court sentenced two ethnic Serbs to life imprisonment and a third to 30 years in prison. However, the other perpetrators, including Milan Radoici\u0107, a wealthy politician and businessman close to the SNS, have not yet been prosecuted.<\/p>\n<hr style=\"margin:30px 0\">\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#666\">Source: <strong>prizrenpost<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has today approved the report &#8220;The functioning of democratic institutions in Serbia&#8221;, where it is emphasized that the normalization of relations with Kosovo is a crucial issue for Serbia&#8217;s progress towards the European Union. The report, prepared by the rapporteurs Victoria Tiblom (Sweden) and Yunus Emre (Turkey), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[666],"class_list":["post-41980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","tag-brief"],"views":8,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41982,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41980\/revisions\/41982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}