Albanian Language Media: • Lajcak: Important agreement expected next week (euronews.al/media) • No agreement reached between government and KLA veterans (media) • Kosovo Government issues statement following meeting with KLA veterans (media) • At Prespa Forum, Osmani has meetings with U.S., UK, German envoys (media) • Milanovic: Kosovo's non-recognition by Serbia, obstacle for EU enlargement (media) • Several agreements expected to be signed in the Kosovo-Albania meeting of governments (KP) • Konjufca travels to The Hague today to meet former KLA leaders (media) Serbian Language Media: • Varhelyi: Cooperation with the Western Balkans is the EU's geostrategic choice (RTS) • Brnabic from Ohrid: General progress requires integration of the region into the EU (RTS) • Starovic: The negotiation framework with the EU does not mention the recognition of Kosovo's independence (Kosovo Online, RTS) • Botsan Kharchenko: EU forcing Serbia to impose sanctions while remaining Russia's largest economic partner (NMagazin, N1, Beta) • Selakovic, Cavusoglu: Excellent relations to be advanced further (Tanjug) • Petkovic on Twitter: “Freedom for Albanians accused of planning attacks on KFOR and SOC, real image of justice in Pristina” (Kosovo Online) International: • Paris moves to solve Sofia’s N. Macedonia veto, diplomats say (Euractiv) • Ukraine should become a membership candidate to join the EU, commission says (CNBC) • Montenegro PM Accuses Partners of Blocking Serbian Church Agreement (Balkan Insight) Humanitarian/Development: • Kosovo Digs Deeper as Search for Wartime Missing Intensifies (Balkan Insight) • Eight journalists from Kosovo visited Association of Journalists of Serbia (UNS) (KoSSev, Radio Mitrovica sever)

• KLA veterans end protest after Assembly halts session (media) • Kosovo Parliament Paralysed as War Veterans, Opposition MPs Protest (BIRN) • Lajcak trying to set meeting between Kurti and Vucic before summer break (media) • Osmani: Our path to EU cannot be stopped by Moscow (media) • Cautious optimism over visa liberalisation for Kosovo (media) • Kosovars tire of knocking at Europe's closed doors (AFP/France 24) • Greece appoints special envoy for the Western Balkans (Kallxo) • Albanian PM Calls on Ukraine to Recognise Kosovo (Exit) • Krasniqi: I don't believe this government will see its term through (Koha) • 72 bomb threats reported across Kosovo yesterday, all false (media) • Police arrest, later release, PSD leader Dardan Molliqaj (media) • Supreme Court rules in favour of new electricity tariffs (media)

Albanian Language Media: • KLA war veterans protest in front of assembly and government buildings (media) • Assembly of Kosovo resumes session amidst opposition calls to cancel it (media) • Protest on withdrawal of pension trust funds joins that of KLA veterans (Kallxo) • Osmani to attend Prespa Forum in North Macedonia (media) • Slovenian president calls for visa liberalisation for Kosovo (Paparaci) • Bomb threats in 30 schools were false, police say (Kallxo) • Hoti: Government did not use ‘Office of Veterans’ for dialogue with them (media) • Kurti meets journalists and academics from Greece and Cyprus (RTK) Serbian Language Media: • Vucic to Cavusoglu: Serbia committed to promoting cooperation (N1) • Christoph Heusgen: An agreement between Serbia and Kosovo is possible (DW) • Kosovo Police: Citizens not to panic, some schools checked, threats false (Kontakt plus radio) • Office for KiM: 71 Serbian schools in Kosovo received threatening emails (Radio Mitrovica sever) • Conference "Position and Challenges of Non-Majority Communities in the Pec Region" (KiM Radio) • Petkovic: "Mutual recognition" is not and cannot be part of the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina (RTS) • EWB: ''The amendment on mutual recognition of Serbia and Kosovo was submitted by the MP of the European People's Party'' (N1) • Von Cramon: Sanctions and recognition of Kosovo to join EU (N1) • Jovic: Viola von Cramon's ultimate messages destabilize the Balkans (Kosovo Online) • Leaders of the Western Balkans at the Prespa Forum in Ohrid (Kosovo Online, RFE) Opinion: • Serbia’s sanctions standoff with the EU (Politico) International: • Global Peace Index 2022 (reliefweb.int) • Paper Shows France's Vision Of New 'Community' For All Of Europe (RFE) • Kosovo stunned as Dua Lipa festival shifts to Albania (BIRN) • EU leaders to debate France’s halfway house for Ukraine idea (Politico) • “Z” makes Ukrainians feel unsafe in Serbia, ambassador says (Euractiv) Humanitarian/Development: • Dittrich: Kosovo Accreditation Agency to be soon readmitted to ENQA, EQAR (Koha) • Serbia donates 1.5 million Euro for Ukrainian children (N1) • Serbia: Growth Momentum, Policy Discipline Cushion Economic Blows From War in Ukraine (fxempire.com)

• Prime Minister Kurti meets European Council President Michel (media) • Police gather at Assembly and Government before veterans’ protest (media) • Bomb alarms in community schools in different municipalities (media) • Albanian PM Rama calls on Ukraine to recognize Kosovo (Koha) • Defence Minister Mehaj: Kosovo ready to help Ukraine (media) • Open Balkans shows no sign of delivering promised freedoms (BIRN) • Kosovo, Albania governments to hold a joint meeting on June 20 (euronews.al) • Kosovo’s Trepca giant struggles to pay off debts to miners (BIRN)

Albanian Language Media: • Osmani: Europe is not complete without Kosovo and Western Balkans (media) • Kosovo to take part in Defense Contact Group meeting on Ukraine (media) • War veterans to protest tomorrow; calls for mass participation, no violence (Telegrafi) • AmCham Kosovo: Government should consider participating in Open Balkan (media) • PDK calls on MPs to support pension trust withdrawal (media) Serbian Language Media: • A new round of dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina next week (Kosovo Online, RTV, Tanjug) • Schieb: The catalogue of obligations is clear (N1) • Bilcik for Insajder: Scholz's position on mutual recognition is not the official position of the European Union (Danas) • Duma official says Russia will not recognize Kosovo (N1, Beta, Politika) • Albanians from Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja can take the bar exam in Kosovo (N1, beta, bujanovacke.co.rs) • Serbian Justice Minister: ICTY prosecutors suffered complete failure in Kosovo cases (Tanjug) • Kosovo police: Increased number of cases of interethnic violence in 2021, most victims Albanians (Kosovo Online) • Office for KIM: Primary school in Gojbulja near Vucitrn stoned (gracanicanicaonline.info) Opinion: • Joseph: Open Balkan(s) is Not Just Unwise. It’s Dangerous (Balkan Insight) International: • Serbia Leader Scorns EU Call for Mutual Recognition with Kosovo (Balkan Insight) • Albanian PM: No EU membership talks soon, and it’s Bulgaria’s fault (Politico) • Kosovo, Serbia Dialogue Must Deal with Major Issues First, Says Kosovo Publicist (exit.al) Humanitarian/Development: • Western Balkan Highly Affected by Illegal Border Crossings This Year, Frontex Reveals (schengenvisainfo.com) • Serbian NGO chief says number of migrants rising (Beta, N1)

• Kurti and Schallenberg vow to increase Kosovo-Austria cooperation (media) • Michel: Western Balkans, strategic priority for the EU (RFE) • France set to appoint envoy to Western Balkans? (RTK) • Kurti welcomes adoption of minimum wage bill, calls it 'good news' (media) • KLA war veterans to protest on 16 June against minimum wage bill (media) • Kusari-Lila: War veterans have not been excluded from draft law (Koha/Telegrafi) • PDK: Kusari-Lila shamefully insulted KLA veterans (Indeksonline) • Sunny Hill festival moves from Pristina to Tirana (media)

Albanian Language Media: • Kosovo Assembly adopts in principle law on minimum wage (media) • PDK announces boycott of today's Assembly session (media) • EP: Final agreement between Kosovo and Serbia to centre on mutual recognition (media) • Austria's FM Schallenberg visits Kosovo, calls for visa liberalisation (media) • “Open Balkan has meaning only if six countries are involved” (Klan Kosova) • Delegation from Croatian parliament visits Kosovo Assembly (media) Serbian Language Media: • Vucic: There will be no power anywhere, hard winter ahead; no mention of mutual recognition in the negotiating framework with the EU (Danas, Beta) • AFET adopts report on Serbia: "Urgent" sanctions on Russia demanded; legally binding agreement based on mutual recognition between Belgrade and Pristina (Danas) • Bilcik on the report: "It is not an ultimatum, the government in Serbia should decide whether it will be on the right side of history" (Danas) • Bilcik against the wording ‘mutual recognition’ (KoSSev, RFE) • Vucic: Non-paper presented, Austria wants tangible enlargement process (N1, Beta, FoNet) International: • Western Balkan migrant route most used in 2022 (Euractive)

• Bislimi: Agreement on energy in the north is very close (media) • Haradinaj: All citizens must be included in a single energy system (media) • European Parliament foreign committee to discuss report on Kosovo (RFE) • Kosovo leaders meet to coordinate actions on foreign policy (media) • Foreign Minister Gervalla reacts to critics, shares video praising KLA (Telegrafi) • Kurti’s opposition to Open Balkan leaves Kosovo looking isolated (BIRN) • Austrian Foreign Minister to visit Kosovo today (media) • Assembly President Konjufca to visit former KLA leaders on June 17 (media) • A determining week for the pension trust and the minimum wage (Koha) • Draft strategy on transitional justice aimed in three months (Koha)

Albanian Language Media: • PDK, AAK call for minimum wage bill to be removed from assembly agenda (RFE) • LDK leader Abdixhiku insists on removing excise duty on fuel products (media) • Finance minister Murati rejects proposal to lift excise duty on fuel (media) • Austrian chief diplomat to stay in Prishtina on Tuesday (Gazeta Express) • Mehaj: U.S. support, irreplaceable in our development processes (Klan Kosova) • Abazovic, Rama and Kovacevski to visit Kyiv together? (RTV21) Serbian Language Media: • Selakovic on sanctions against Russia: Serbia cannot impose sanctions to someone who respects its territorial integrity (Kosovo Online, RTV, Tanjug) • Austrian FM expects region in the EU (FoNet, N1) • Petkovic with US Ambassador Hill on dialogue and situation in Kosovo (RTS, Radio Mitrovica sever) • Djuric: Serbia-US relations on constant upward trajectory (Tanjug, N1, Politika) • Ambassador Hill: Serbia to consider its neutral position (N1) • Vucic: Scholz requested that Serbia join sanctions on Russia (Tanjug) • Scholz: Germany expects EU membership candidates to join Russia sanctions (media) • Two young Serbs stabbed in Straze village, near Gnjilane (Beta, NMagazin, RTV Puls, Kosovo Online) • Office for KiM: Two shops in Velika Hoca robbed (Kontakt plus radio) • Novo Brdo: Several returnee homes broken into in Ceranovica hamlet (Kontakt plus radio, Radio Mitrovica sever) • Displaced persons from Suva Reka forbidden to attend the monastery's celebration (KiM radio) Opinion: • The Balkan chessboard and notable absentees (ekathimerini.com) International: • EU Parliament urges Serbia to reconsider relationship with Russia (Euractive) • How to keep the EU accession dream alive (intellinews.com)

• Anniversary of NATO troops entering marked in Kosovo (media) • Osmani at SEECP summit: Kosovo's membership in CoE of interest to all citizens (media) • Kurti: To achieve reconciliation, Serbia needs to apologise (Koha) • German, Serbian leaders clash over Kosovo, Russia sanctions (Politico) • Scholz: Serbia, Kosovo must recognize each other to join EU (AP) • Kosovo President Osmani and Greek PM Mitsotakis discuss intensifying relations (media) • Vucic signals agreement with KEDS over electricity in the north (RFE) • Gervalla-Schwarz: Kosovo couldn't have a truer friend than the U.S. (media) • Serbian List should be interviewed, voluntarily or otherwise, former prosecutor says (RFE) • Group of Kosovo and Serbia NGOs call for upholding of the rule of law in Decan (media) • Municipality says problems with Decan Monastery prevent infrastructure investments (RTK) • In Kosovo, Frustration Grows over Promised Road to Montenegro (BIRN)