The "demokracia.com" portal published an article on May 29 titled "EU's request to Kurti revealed: Do not send the police to northern Kosovo."
This portal has claimed to possess a document stating that the European Union advises the Kosovo Government against any "provocative" actions, as they call them, in the northern municipalities. "Demokracia.com" claims that this report, compiled by the head of European diplomacy, Josep Borell, was released after the dinner of the leaders of the Western Balkans.
However, after the publication of this report, the EU reacted, with its spokesperson, Peter Stano, denying such a thing, telling the Klankosova.tv portal that such a document was not written by them.
"We usually do not comment on media reports regarding alleged EU documents, in this particular case the 'document' is a complete forgery and something like this was never produced by the EU," Stano said.
Excerpt from the text of the article published on the portal "demokracia.com":
According to the document obtained by Demokracia.com, the EU advises the Kosovo Government against any "provocative" actions, as they call them, in the northern municipalities.
"The High Representative will appeal to the Government in Pristina against any provocative action in the northern municipalities. Specifically, Mr. "Kurti will be advised not to undertake any police operation aimed at collecting electricity bills in the northern municipalities, which may provoke further tensions with the local population," the EU report states.
Link to the article published on the portal "demokracia.com":
Below you can find the reaction from EU spokesperson, Peter Stano, to "klankosova.tv":
Analyze:
The "demokracia.com" portal has published a report claiming to be from the EU, following the Western Balkans leaders' dinner, stating that the European Union advises the Kosovo Government against any "provocative" actions, as they call them, in the northern municipalities.
But this has been denied by EU spokesman Peter Stano, who said that this document is a complete forgery and something like this was never produced by the EU.
After fact-checking analysis conducted by hibrid.info, the article published by "demokracia.com" is assessed as "unverified content".
Reasoning:
The “Unverified” rating is given to those media reports that do not provide sufficient information to confirm the claims made in the report, and which have not been able to confirm the same due to the lack or non-possession of reliable sources.