Integrating police, judiciary, border management and Civil Corps – PARTIALLY FULFILLED

In 2011, Serbia and Kosovo agreed to implement a system of Integrated Border Management, a concept devised by the EU in which agencies involved in border management would coordinate their activities.

The agreement was struck before Vucic’s Progressive Party took power, but as of 2019 the deal has still to be fully implemented.

The integration of Serb policemen on the Belgrade payroll into the Kosovo police fared better, finishing in 2014 with few issues.

However, the situation in northern Kosovo remains volatile. A BIRN investigation has catalogued 74 attacks on Kosovo Serbs involving guns, grenades, arson or explosive devices since 2014.

On January 18, 2018, the Kosovo Serb politician Oliver Ivanovic, who was in opposition to Srpska lista, was shot dead in front of his party office.

As part of the agreement, Belgrade also gave up the Civil Protection Corps, CPC, portrayed by Serbia as a first responce unit in emergency situations but viewed by Pristina as a paramilitary formation. It was integrated into the Kosovo institutions in 2016.

The agreement on integrating the justice system in the Serb-run north with the Kosovo system came into force in October 2017. The courts are still plagued by lengthy delays.

Energy agreement – UNFULFILLED

The two sides agreed in 2015 that the Serbian energy distributor, EPS, will register two subsidiaries in Kosovo that will take over the distribution of power in the north.

However, the deal has not yet been implemented because Serbia refuses to include the name ‘Republic of Kosovo’ in the registration documents, despite pledging to register the companies in accordance with Kosovo laws.

Kosovo’s then-minister in charge of dialogue with Serbia, Edita Tahiri, warned as early as September 2015 that the company address must include the name of the state.

“Everywhere else in these documents, where there are formulations or expressions that are politically provocative and legally incorrect, they need to be removed and replaced in accordance with Kosovo laws and the Brussels agreement,“ Tahiri said at the time.

Vucic says Kosovo is responsible for the failure of the energy agreement, falsely stating that the Association of Serb Municipalities must be established first, because it would be the entity that registers two new power companies in the north.

However, the agreements clearly stipulate that the founder should be the Serbian EPS.

Mitrovica bridge deal – UNFULFILLED

Serbia and Kosovo agreed in 2015 to open the bridge on the Ibar river that divides the northern town of Mitrovica into the mostly Serb north and the mostly Albanian southern part.

The bridge was supposed to be revitalised in 2016 and opened for traffic, but the mayor of northern Mitrovica, Goran Rakic, has halted work several times because of incidents in Mitrovica.

At one point the Kosovo Serb authorities built a wall near the bridge on the northern side, which was torn down after protests from Pristina and the west.

In June 2016, the EU reminded Serbia and Kosovo that progress on normalisation of their relations is vital, singling out several key agreements, one of which was opening the bridge in Mitrovica. But it remains closed for traffic to this day.