• Negotiating team to travel to Brussels on 8 January (Epoka) • Thaci’s holds annual speech before Kosovo Assembly (media) • Quint Ambassadors today at the meeting of the negotiating team (Express) • Kosovo delegation with monitoring role in dialogue (Koha Ditore) • Collaku: The only pressure by Trump is agreement with Serbia (TV Dukagjini) • Assembly fails to hold session on draft agreement with Serbia (media) • France supports the dialogue and state delegation (RTK) • Dacic: Kosovo-Serbia dialogue in another format in 2019 (Nedeljnik/Express) • Arifi: Serbia provoking and inciting new tariffs (Bota Sot) • Bahtiri and Rakic meet COMKFOR (Zeri) • Rasic: Belgrade is using Kosovo Serbs as an instrument (RFE, Epoka) • Visa liberalisation, unlikely under Romanian EU presidency (Zeri) • Lluka: New power plant to begin construction in 2019 (Zeri)

• Negotiating team heads, Ahmeti and Limaj, meet President Thaci (media) • Thaci asks Constitutional Court to interpret international agreements (Zeri) • Assembly to hold an extraordinary session on the dialogue (Lajmi) • No unity among political parties on dialogue, despite efforts (Epoka) • Mustafa says Kosovo needs unity for dialogue with Serbia (Zeri) • LDK’s Selmanaj: We won’t be part of political games (media) • Haradinaj calls Brnabic’s request to Rama, shameful (media) • Brnabic: No dialogue prior to removal of tax by Pristina (RTK) • Dialogue with Serbia: LDK, VV write to EU (RTK) • Serbian President plans to step up aid for Kosovo Serbs (media) • Serbian List opposes Bahtiri’s initiative for Mitrovica unification (Zeri) • PDK leaders dine in Mitrovica, Agim Bahtiri takes part (media) • Government aims to reduce unemployment rate through games of chance (Koha)

• U.S. Embassy: Opposition to get involved in dialogue with Serbia (Zeri) • Veseli: Dialogue (Klan Kosova) • Gap between President and Govt threatens Kosovo’s position (Koha) • Thaci: Kosovo Army will move forwards – no turning back (Bota Sot) • KFOR: ROSU can go to north even without our permission (Politika, RTK) • Bahtiri launches petition for unification of Mitrovica (media) • Mustafa: Ruling coalition being ‘patched-up’ with PSD (Zeri) • Kurti: PSD ended up in PDK’s ‘lap’ (Zeri) • Serbia seeks new format of dialogue under UN supervision (RTK) • Pristina University students to protest today over visa liberalisation (RTK)

• Haradinaj: Kosovo stands firm in fight against IS (media) • Veseli: Kosovo Army to be equipped with 250 armoured vehicles (Telegrafi) • Kosovo Assembly approves in principle 2019 budget (Zeri) • LDK, Vetevendosje not to attend Veseli-called meeting (media) • Rama to Brnabic: Kosovo is independent as are its decisions (media)

• Haradinaj to Mogherini: EU was not neutral during your leadership (Zeri) • Veseli calls first meeting between political leaders and negotiating team (Epoka) • U.S. Adm Foggo supports Kosovo army (Bota Sot) • Limaj meets Apostolova, discusses dialogue (Bota Sot) • Serbian, Albanian PMs exchange letters on Kosovo (Koha) • Tim Judah: No indications for an agreement (Beta/RTK) • Kosovo man reported killed in Syria (Express/Zeri)