February 2024

2024-02-17 07:25:00

No one at the Munich Security Conference is happy with the latest actions of Pristina related to the ban on the circulation of the dinar in Kosovo and Metohija. This was reported by the Belgrade newspaper Politika, expressing the opinion of Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, expressed in Munich, on February 16.

“I heard that even Great Britain wrote quite harshly regarding this. Nobody is happy with what Pristina is doing,” Vucic added.

“We have money, but someone is not giving us the opportunity to deliver it to our people. We will have to find a solution one way or another,” the Serbian President said during a conversation with reporters on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference.

“I’m not sure that they (Kosovo authorities) have chosen a good path, but it is certainly very difficult for us. First of all, this is difficult for our people in Kosovo and Metohija,” the Tanjug agency reports Vučić as saying.

The Serbian president, who has several meetings scheduled with leading German politicians, said that “Germany will not change its attitude towards Kosmet,” referring to Berlin’s strong support for the self-proclaimed state.

“I always expect them to be tougher on us, but I hope that’s not the case. I expect that they will be able to understand us better, that they will change their attitude,” Vucic said in a statement to reporters. “The only question is whether they want to understand our position and to what extent they want to understand this position,” the Politika newspaper quoted the opinion of Aleksandar Vucic.

As reported EADaily, thousands of Kosovo Serbs took to the streets of Mitrovica on February 12 to protest Pristina’s announcement to phase out the use of the Serbian dinar from February 1. According to protesters, Pristina’s decision violates the rights of Serbs living in Kosovo and makes the life of Serbs living in Kosovo impossible.

Let us recall that the National Bank of Kosovo announced in early January that from February all of Kosovo will be allowed to pay exclusively in euros, all other currencies can only be used for foreign transactions. The move sparked outrage among local Serbs and Belgrade responded as official figures show that regarding half of Kosovo’s Serb population receives their pensions, salaries or social support from the Serbian budget in dinars.