• The Quint calls on Kosovo to implement decision on Decani Monastery land (media)
• Osmani asks Slovenia to persuade partners to lift visa requirements (BIRN)
• Government doesn’t expect results from dialogue before Serbia elections (Koha)
• EU: Serbia should allow Kosovo ministers to visit Presevo (media)
• LDK MP: I don’t believe there should be early elections (media)
• Dugolli: We will have helicopters during this mandate (KTV)
• Von Cramon’s call to Germany on changing its stance on Serbia angers PM Brnabic (euronews.al)
• Surroi: Kurti, Rama wouldn’t mention referendum if not asked (Klan Kosova)
• Only 19 percent of women elected to municipal assemblies (Lajmi)
• Albania, Kosovo plan joint children’s textbook for 2022 (BIRN)
• COVID-19: Eight new cases, one death (media)

Albanian Language Media:

• Bashkim Jashari appointed new commander of KSF (media)
• KSF commander resigns (Albanian Post)
• EU supports institutions and strengthening of law and order in Kosovo (RTK)
• Gervalla: Approach to visa liberalisation for Kosovo could change soon (media)
• Krasniqi meets Lajcak: Dialogue should end with mutual recognition (Klan)
• PDK mentions new elections as way out of parliamentary stalemate (Telegrafi)
• Konjufca meets Austrian Ambassador: Final agreement, mutual recognition (RTK)
• Kosovo Police special unit surround the Post Office premises (RTK)
• Kosovo and Germany with an agreement to support the KSF with 1 million euros (Klan)
• COVID-19: Eight new cases, one death (media)

Serbian Language Media:

• PM Brnabic and Viola von Cramon correspondence on Twitter (Kosovo Online)
• Von Cramon: Berlin could change approach towards Belgrade (N1)
• Environmental movement calls Vucic to annul controversial laws (N1)
• Northern Kosovo fears that it might be left without power supply; non-compliance with agreements, unpaid bills and Kurti’s ''the day will come'' (Euronews Serbia)
• Gracanica: Ljiljana Subaric and members of the Municipal Assembly took the oath (KiM radio)
• Petkovic with Botsan Kharchenko on dialogue (KiM radio)

Opinion:

• Legal framework for Kosovo Serbs tailored to Pristina (part three): What kind of future awaits them? (KoSSev)

• Kurti tells Pahor: Serbia to reflect on damage and crimes committed in Kosovo (media)
• Ilir Dugolli tipped to become Kosovo's new ambassador to U.S. (Gazeta Express)
• Kamberi: Serbia not interested in relaxing relations with Kosovo (Klan)
• Bugajski: Kosovo-Serbia agreement only with mutual recognition (Express)
• Unresolved murders, argument in favour of Special Prosecution investigating the Gllogjan case (Koha)
• Szunyog: Violence against women, a terrible reality in Kosovo (Koha)
• Kosovo’s Top Court Suspends Hydropower Plant Water Permit (BIRN)
• COVID-19: Two new cases, no deaths (media)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, November 29, 2021

Albanian Language Media:

• Pahor: Kosovo and Serbia to trust the dialogue, respect agreements (media)
• Osmani: EU should react towards Serbia’s destabilizing rhetoric in the region (RTK)
• Prosecution: Investigations in Decan are not easy (RFE Albanian)
• Ibishi: Attack threats should be taken seriously (Ekonomia)
• Croatian Ambassador to Albania: "Serbian World" is being legitimized with "Open Balkans" (Klan)
• COVID-19: Two new cases, no deaths (media)

Serbian Language Media:

• Covid-19: 65 new cases registered in Serbian areas on Saturday (Radio KIM)
• Vucic: I am completely convinced that we should not recognize Kosovo (KoSSev, KiM radio, Tanjug, TV Pink)
• Vucic meets with Pahor in Belgrade (Tanjug)
• Pahor on ZSO in Pristina: I understand decision of Constitutional Court, but agreements must be respected (KoSSev)
• Visoki Decani Monastery extends condolences to families of victims in Glodjane (social media)
• Blinken: Indispensable role of Serbia in promoting the regional stability (Tanjug)
• Survey on Law on Referendum: Most people think it is related to Kosovo and Rio Tinto Company (KoSSev)
• Petkovic elected member of SNS Presidency, Djuric Vice-President (Kosovo-online)
• Glass on a store belonging to Blagoje Radic from Orahovac broken (Radio kontakt plus)

International:

• Kosovo’s Forensic Investigators: ‘We are the Voice of the Dead’ (Balkan Insight)

Humanitarian/Development:

• Three weak earthquakes hit Kosovo (N1, RTS, KiM radio)

• Kosovo leaders condemn attack on bus that killed three (Prishtina Insight)
• Bus attack in Gllogjan: Several tracks of investigation, no arrested (Koha)
• Thousands gather to pay tribute for 3 victims of tragic bus attack (euronews.al)
• Serbian authorities reject visit by Kosovo government ministers (RFE)
• Kurti for the KSF: You are a continuation of the KLA (Telegrafi)
• Robelli: On the empty rhetoric of unification (Koha)
• COVID-19: Six new cases, no deaths (media)
• Kosovo – Serbia dialogue must continue, Slovenian President says (media)
• Serbia ranks Albania and Kosovo as “hostile countries” (Express/Informer.rs)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, November 26, 2021

Albanian Language Media:

• Rama: Different positions on Open Balkan do not hurt us (media)
• Kurti to Rama: Let us speak like diplomats and work like patriots (Koha)
• Lajcak discusses security situation in Kosovo with KFOR and EULEX (RTK)
• Threatening tones of war must not be underestimated, analysts say (Telegrafi)
• Rama’s impossible dismissal, President risks violating Constitution (Demokracia)
• Meta: Albania fully supports Kosovo – Serbia dialogue (Klan Kosova)
• COVID-19: 17 new cases, no deaths (media)

Serbian Language Media:

• Serbian Parliament adopted the Law on Referendum and People's Initiative, 50 percent turnout threshold abolished (media)
• Vucic’s interview to RTS on meeting with Putin, Kosovo issue (RTS)
• Vucic: Putin to keep gas price same for Serbia, we saved one national stadium (N1)
• Djordjevic: Vucic was not received that well in Russia, as he claims (Danas)
• Szunyog: To implement Constitutional Court decision on Visoki Decani Monastery (Radio KIM)
• Escobar on Balkan (HINA, N1)
• Serbian Ambassador elected Chair of UNESCO Executive Council (Kosovo Online)
• RIA Novosti: Russia will get a nuclear power plant in Serbia (NMagazin, Beta, Danas)
• Pahor to visit Serbia on Sunday, with Vucic about dialogue with Pristina and the Western Balkans (Tanjug, Kosovo Online)

International:

• Euronews Albania’s poll on unification, Rama and Kurti give their take (euronews.al)
• No more stops from Albania to Kosovo and vice-versa, all controls lifted (euronews.al)
• Serbia President Hails ‘Incredible’ Gas Deal With Russia (Balkan Insight)

• Lajcak: Kosovo-Serbia dialogue to produce positive results (RTK)
• Meta visits Kosovo: Open Balkan doesn’t guarantee stability or peace in the region (euronews.al)
• Residency and Social Contribution Agreements on Friday (Exit)
• Head of EU Office Szunyog gives interview to KTV
• Kosovo Assembly approves in principle 2022 Budget (media)
• Rohde: Government coalition reiterates visa liberalisation commitment (RTK)
• President of Slovenia, Pahor, to visit Kosovo next week (media)
• Vucic meets Putin in Sochi, Kosovo among topics discussed (euronews.al)
• New Dragash mayor to be decided by Diaspora ballots (Telegrafi)
• The darkness of the black chronicles (Kosovo 2.0)
• Kosovo Buffeted by Waves of Public Sector Strikes (BIRN)
• COVID-19: 12 new cases, no deaths (media)

Albanian Language Media:

• Kurti: Electricity in four northern municipalities will be billed soon (media)
• Konjufca: Kosovo’s future in EU and NATO, not in Serbia’s initiatives (Telegrafi)
• Gervalla: War has returned as a real threat in the Balkans (Koha)
• Kurti: Today we commemorate women and girls lost to violence (Klan Kosova)
• Specialist Chambers confirm some detainees are infected with COVID-19 (Klan Kosova)
• Mobile team vaccinates school pupils in Prishtina (Prishtina Insight)
• COVID-19: 12 new cases, no deaths (media)

Serbian Language Media:

• Covid-19: 33 new cases in Serbian communities (Kontakt plus radio)
• Putin: Russia supports Serbia's position on resolving the Kosovo issue (Tanjug, Kosovo Online)
• Dacic: The law on the referendum has nothing to do with Rio Tinto, the Constitution preamble will not change (Danas)
• Petkovic: The only one destabilizing the region is Albin Kurti (Radio Mitrovica sever, Kosovo Online)
• Mojsilovic with Kajari: The only legitimate security actor in Kosovo is KFOR (Tanjug, Kosovo Online)
• US envoy to Serbia on ‘Open Balkan’: We support economic linkage; Escobar agrees (N1, FoNet)
• DSS official won’t run with anyone who says that genocide was committed in Srebrenica and Kosovo is independent (Beta, NIN, N1)
• Protesters in Belgrade threaten to block Serbia if two laws are passed (N1)
• 520 kg of marijuana seized in Nis (B92, N1, Kosovo Online)

International:

• Western Balkans in the coalition agreement of the next German government (EWB)
• Venice Commission: Serbia followed ‘most’ constitutional recommendations (BIRN)

• Escobar: ‘Open Balkans’ will not function without involvement of six states (RFE Albanian)
• Albanian President criticizes “Open-Balkans” initiative from Prishtina (A2)
• Gervalla meets Escobar: Dialogue to aim only mutual recognition (media)
• New German government supports visa liberalization for Kosovo (RTK)
• Kurti receives Chairmen of the Universal Peace Federation (media)
• Konjufca: Consensus with opposition against "Zajednica" benefits Kosovo in dialogue (Koha)
• Kosovo and Latvia sign MoU on military and security cooperation (media)
• Citaku: PDK to soon form 'shadow government' (Telegrafi)
• Police Inspectorate: Interview of Police Director not related to confiscation of drugs (media)
• Kosovo man faces terror charges after return from Syria (The Washington Post)
• “Rexhep Selimi and Nasim Haradinaj catch COVID-19 at The Hague” (Telegrafi)
• COVID-19: Six new cases, one death (media)
• With stray dog shelter, Kosovo duo bridge ethnic divide (AFP/France 24)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, November 24, 2021

Albanian Language Media:

• Kosovo President Osmani meets Canada's Governor General Simon (media)
• Kurti: We are committed to fighting crime and corruption, uphold rule of law (media)
• EU Special Representative for dialogue, Lajcak, to visit Kosovo tomorrow (Klan)
• Kurti: I strongly condemn cases of discrimination against communities in Kosovo (Kallxo)
• Hajdari: Anti-dumping measures linked to equality and reciprocity (Koha)
• CDBK: Kosovo in CEFTA as a country, not through UNMIK (Zeri)
• COVID-19: Six new cases, one death (media)

Serbian Language Media:

• Vucic on meeting with Putin, talks with Pristina, bigger incentives for childbirth (RTS)
• Mihajlovic: Alleged debt for electricity in northern Kosovo a lie, yet another sort of pressure against Serbs (Kosovo-online)
• Stano: Pristina to change decision and allow Petar Petkovic to enter Kosovo (Tanjug)
• Conference on the Open Balkan today in the Serbian Parliament (RTV Puls, Kosovo Online)
• Vucic awarded Golden Charter and Key of Mitrovica North City (KoSSev)
• Kremlin: Putin and Vucic to discuss also the prospects for resolving the Kosovo issue (Tanjug, Kosovo Online, TASS)

Humanitarian/Development:

• Public pulse: Citizens dissatisfied with municipal support during a pandemic (KiM radio)
• Kopač: Western Balkans need to introduce CO2 tax by 2025 (balkangreenenergynews.com)
• Activists in Balkans raise alarm on rising violence against women (axios.com)
• How do you see me? How do I see you? (Kosovo Trustbuilding Platform)