Albanian Language Media: • UNSC discusses Kosovo, UNMIK chief says building confidence through achievable goals is key to decisive political outcomes (media) • Kosovo government adopts budget for 2025 (RFE) • Kurti welcomes EU recommendations: Committed to path of reforms (RTK) • Kosovo Assembly adopts National Plan for European Integration 2024 – 2028 (media) • Borrell: EU membership and progress in Dialogue must go hand in hand (Koha) • PDK’s Krasniqi slams government after publication of Progress Report (media) • Kosovo leaders send condolences to Spain after devastating floods (media) • Kosovo Police Inspectorate recommends suspension of two police officers in the north (Koha) Serbian Language Media: • UNMIK Chief reports to UN Security Council (Beta, N1, Tanjug, KoSSev, media) • Djuric: Kurti's moves creating a climate of fear, violence against Serbs escalated (Tanjug, media) • UNSC on the Belgrade Pristina dialogue, Banjska, the Kosovo authorities’ moves, the UNMIK mandate (Beta, KoSSev, media) • Djuric: We have sent a clear message - Kurti destroying all accomplished by the international community in Kosovo (Kosovo Online) • Petkovic: The truth was heard in NY about the suffering of Serbs from Kosovo and the brutal lies of Gervalla (Kosovo Online) • SL: Djuric presented the difficult situation of Serbs in Kosovo, from Gervalla only insults and lies (Kosovo Online) • EULEX chief says north Kosovo NGOs break ties with the mission (N1, Kosovo Online) • Plans of Pristina for Prizren - The path to UNESCO leads through Belgrade (Kosovo Online) • Vucic: Next US president needs to forge truce in Ukraine (Tanjug, Bloomberg, media)

Albanian Language Media: • EC demands from Kosovo and Serbia immediate implementation of agreement (RTK) • EU: Serbia committed clear violation of dialogue obligations (RTK) • LVV MPs boycott report of KIA director (Koha) • Osmani in Qatar: Family, the strongest nucleus that kept resistance alive (Koha) • Three international agreements postponed for another session (RTK) • Maqedonci meets Qatar Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense (Klan) • LDK to start next week "Tournament of Change": Elections determine Kosovo's own destiny (media) Serbian Language Media: • Guterres on Kosovo report: Potential for escalation, safeguarding rights of non-majority communities vital (N1, media) • EC: Cluster 3 ready for opening, Belgrade and Pristina must implement agreements (Tanjug) • Petkovic: Laws Serbia adopts as support to Serbian people in Kosovo unrelated to obligations from dialogue (Kosovo Online, media) • EU: Serbia has clearly violated its dialogue obligations with proposed law on Kosovo (Kosovo Online) • Starovic: Serbia not violating any agreement within the dialogue, instead trying to help its population in Kosovo (Kosovo Online) • Kosovo Police Inspectorate recommends suspension of two police officers in relation to Milos Subotic’s case (KoSSev) • Djurdjevic Stamenkovski, AfD's Chrupalla discuss situation in Kosovo (Tanjug) • Vucic extends condolences to Spain over deadly flooding (Tanjug, media) Opinion: • On the five points of Belgrade: laws against independence (KoSSev) • Ninic claims Serbia’s Kosovo legislation is a ‘Lex Specialis’ for Milan Radoicic (KoSSev)

Albanian Language Media: • Kurti meets Sarrazin, talk strengthening bilateral relations, regional cooperation (media) • Bislimi on Serbia’s bill on Kosovo: EU should respond and react in a firm way (media) • Foreign Minister Gervalla to represent Kosovo at UN Security Council session (media) • Kurti meets AIRabiah of Saudi Arabia, thanks him for support for Kosovo (media) • COMKFOR talks about security and increased presence of troops in Kosovo (Telegrafi) • Trade Unions and opposition dissatisfied with increase of salaries (media) Serbian Language Media: • Djuric to represent Serbia at UNSC session on UNMIK (Tanjug, media) • Gouillon: 81 attacks on Serbs registered in Kosovo since Kurti's rise to power (Tanjug, Kosovo Online, TV Pink) • The Gracanica municipality sued the GoK for the illegal confiscation of land (Tanjug, Kosovo Online, KoSSev, KiM radio, Danas) • Petkovic: Kurti is the only one taking hostile actions in Kosovo (Kosovo Online, Radio Mitrovica sever, KiM radio) • The SL representatives met Sarrazin: Necessary to prevent the persecution of Serbs (Kosovo Online, Radio Mitrovica sever, KiM radio) • Arsenijevic placed "EULEX VETËVENDOSJE! Police" at the gate of the EU mission base; KP questioned him: Disturbance of public order (KoSSev) • Barduani: Resolving open issues through dialogue key to lasting security in Kosovo (K4, Kosovo Online)

Albanian Language Media: Kurti: Increase in public sector wages in January next year (media) Kurti: I don’t form Associations; I offered to write draft but was rejected (media) Lajcak: Optimistic about some progress, will continue in coming weeks (RTK) Hacker: I guarantee Germany is working to help Kosovo join CoE (media) Osmani to Erdogan: Kosovo committed to strengthening partnership (media) Haradinaj: Kurti is a political amateur, he has made many mistakes (EO) KFOR Strategic Force leaves Kosovo (media) Serbian Language Media: Vucevic not optimist that any major conclusion will be reached at UNSC session tomorrow (Kosovo Online, Tanjug, Radio Mitrovica sever, media) SL with Michalcova and Hupin: The most urgent to prevent institutional violence and form the CSM (Radio Mitrovica sever, Kosovo Online) Lajcak optimist on progress of ''some key issues'' in Belgrade-Pristina dialogue (Kosovo Online) Gacevic: Formation of A/CSM essential as first step in protecting collective rights of Serbs (Danas, Kosovo Online) Radosavljevic: Time to ask how useful EULEX is considering how expensive it is (Euronews Serbia, Kosovo Online) Trial of four Serbs in relation to alleged involvement in attack on Municipal Election Commission Office continues (Kosovo Online) House arrest measure of four young Serbs arrested in Mitrovica North last month revoked (KoSSev) Bottcher: Position of German Embassy and ambassador is well known - “Deva was a known Nazi collaborator” (Kosovo Online) Questions about Serbia’s strategic course: How EC assesses Belgrade’s path to EU (N1, Hina) International: Relentless hoax bomb threats leave police in Balkans frustrated (Balkan Insight)

UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, October 29, 2024 Albanian Language Media: Kurti in address at Harvard: Kosovo has strong minority protections (media) Kosovo denies allegations that Serbs’ rights in north are being violated (RTV21) Murati: The Development Bank is becoming a reality (media) Svecla: Kosovo is not a safe haven for criminals (media) Bislimi meets head of Division for Western Balkans in EEAS (media) Jashari meets KFOR Chief of Staff, talk cooperation (media) Osmani: The Siparantum Choir has once again raised our flag high (media) Artists from Kosovo and Serbia with joint exhibition in Belgrade (RFE) Serbian Language Media: Serbian Government declares Kosovo a region of special social protection (KoSSev, media) Vucic: We have no closer or greater ally in Europe than Hungary (Tanjug) Murphy with Vucevic: Implementing Brussels Agreement as a path to compromise (Kosovo Online) Vulin: BRICS summit brings hope (N1, BETA) Milos Subotic: “While they were beating me in police station, other officers were laughing; this no longer feels like life” (Kosovo Online, Danas) Hearing in Milorad Djokovic’s case postponed (Radio KIM) LVV ‘under fire’: Opposition claims government uses north, bridge opening and A/CSM to divert attention (KoSSev) Opinion: Three reasons why there will be a change of government in Kosovo (Nacionale) International Media: ‘Thirrëm edhe mua’ for women fighting breast cancer (Prishtina Insight) Kosovo’s choir awarded in Spain (Prishtina Insight) KLA was voluntary army, witness tells Thaci trial in the Hague (BIRN)

Albanian Language Media: • Konjufca on Association: EU cannot take away our right to propose a draft (media) • Progress Report expected to request urgent implementation of agreements (RFE) • Koopman commends Kosovo on Reforms Agenda for Growth Plan (media) • “Vucic hoping Trump elected in order to start talks on Kosovo partition” (media) • Zeka: Govt didn’t give the right importance to capital investments (Kosovapress) • RTK: Dinar continues to circulate illegally in the northern municipalities • Tahiri: Vetevendosje is not serious, fortunately we are on verge of elections (Klan) • Videnovic: Serbian politicians must apologize for pain caused in Kosovo (media) Serbian Language Media: • CSOs appeal for international actions on police abuse of non-majority communities (Alternativna, Kosovo Online, social media) • CSOs call upon mayor Atiq to resign (KoSSev, media, social media) • ‘How can I trust the police?’: Milos Subotic’s struggle for justice after alleged assault (KoSSev) • Fatherland: Beating of Subotic only tip of an iceberg (KoSSev, media) • One more Serb claim Kosovo police treated him ‘inappropriately’ (Alternativna, social media) • Andric Rakic: Level of public security in north of Kosovo decreased (RTS, Kosovo Online) • Ugljanin: ID cards listing ‘Mitrovica’ violate law and agreements on north-south division (KoSSev) • Bomb thrown in a yard of Serbian woman, member of Kosovo police in Mali Zvecan (KoSSev, media) • Djuric: Deva's restored house illuminated ‘in colors of the Third Reich flag’ (Kosovo Online, social media) • Kosovo Assembly did not adopt any of proposed laws that Government planned for 2024 (KoSSev, Koha) International: • Kosovo counts cost and benefit of prisoner deal with Denmark (BIRN)

UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, October 28, 2024 Albanian Language Media: Von der Leyen visits Pristina, meets Osmani and Kurti (media) Peja mayor Gazmend Muhaxheri assaulted by two persons (media) Finnish MP: We will support Kosovo at Council of Europe (media) EULEX welcomes investigations into claims of beating of a Serb in north (RFE) Atiq: Serb civil society never reacted to vehicles’ burning, violent actions (media) LDK’s Gashi calls for Kurti’s resignation: VV lost majority in parliament (media) Serbian Language Media: EULEX demand the competent authorities to urgently investigate allegations of abuse against Subotic (Kosovo Online, RTS, KiM radio) Atiq: Civil society in the North reacts against government and police actions, not against car arson or Rakic assault (KoSSev) KP outline details of Milos Subotic’s arrest as Inspectorate launches abuse investigation (KoSSev) Office for KiM: The beating of Subotic proof that Pristina uses "Gestapo methods" of violence against Serbs (Kosovo Online) SL: The beating of Subotic confirms that Pristina continues with intimidation and violence (Kosovo Online) SNP: The GoK’s unacceptable and malicious decision on the expropriation of 13 hectares in the municipality of Gracanica (KoSSev) Arsenijevic: Atiq's chief of staff and security chased minors; KP: The inspector stopped the young men for pasting stickers (KoSSev) International Media: Western Balkans’ struggle with open data and digitalization (Prishtina Insight)

Albanian Language Media: NATO notes that consensus of 32 members required on Kosovo (RTV21) Kurti: Austria and Kosovo built a strong partnership over the decades (RTK) Kosovo’s Election Commission joins A-WEB Executive Committee (media) Agency denies reports about removal of “Mitrovica North” from IDs (media) Hoxhaj: Kurti accepted Association, biggest damage in last 30 years (RTV21) Albanians in Serbia to protest against passivization of addresses (Albanian Post) Serbian Language Media: Head of UN: Situation in north of Kosovo tense, possible escalation (RTS, Blic, Danas) Ursula von der Leyen in two-day visit to Serbia (RTS, media) Arsenijevic calls on Kosovo police to open case against Missini café for ‘spreading ethnic intolerance’ (social media) Mesarovic: Serbia has significant economic cooperation with BRICS member states (Tanjug) Barac: EU lost ability to moderate dialogue, negotiations became ‘absurd’ (Kosovo Online) In Pristina, graffiti written against Fadil Geci, along with derogatory words for Serbs (KoSSev, Kallxo) International: Tena Prelec: People in the region need to feel like a part of Europe, rather than as a “super-periphery” (EWB)

UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, October 25, 2024 Albanian Language Media: Kosovo, Serbia don’t agree on moving forward toward normalization (RFE) Kurti, Barduani: “Importance of regular communication and coordination” (media) Osmani: Steadfast commitment to principles that define our democracy (media) Chief prosecutor: Kajtazi and Mehmetaj are not being investigated (media) AJK expresses concern regarding the investigations against journalists (media) Rasic: Association does not constitute a threat to Kosovo sovereignty (media) Svecla meets Bulgarian counterpart, discuss security and challenges (media) Serbian Language Media: Petkovic: We insisted on CSM, pointed out Pristina's behaviour against Serbs (Tanjug, N1, media) Lajcak: We agreed about next steps (Radio kontakt plus, social media) Vucic: Government reshuffle, including mayors, company directors (N1, BETA) Petkovic, Serbian List condemn apprehension of Uljarevic: Interference of politics into sport (KoSSev, media) Sports Minister on apprehension of Uljarevic: Pristina authorities are crossing ‘line of reason’ (Kosovo Online) Tusk: Poland supports Serbia's EU path, EU incomplete without Serbia (media) Radar: Serbia pays 1st instalment for French Rafale fighters (N1) International Media: Controversy erupts over hybrid warfare claims after audio recording leak involving Kusari-Lila and Radoicic (Sbunker, Disinfo) Workshops: Kosovo youth united against radicalism (Sbunker)

Albanian Language Media: • Kurti repeats the demands toward Serbia in the dialogue (RTK) • Barduani meets Kurti: Dialogue only way to compose ongoing issues (media) • Reuten: Punitive measures against Kosovo must be removed (media) • Kurti on terrorist attack in Turkey: Let’s work together to combat terrorism (media) • Haradinaj condemns terrorist attack in Ankara; “attack against peace” (media) • Osmani: Courts in Kosovo set a very good example of rule of law (RTK) • UNMIK: In north of Kosovo, still potential for escalation (Albanian Post) • Hovenier calls for fair, open, and inclusive selection process in call of KPC (media) • Citaku: Investigations against Kajtazi and Mehmetaj, orchestrated scandal (media) • First two projects of Kosovo Prosperity Fund signed in Mitrovica North (RTK) • Murati meets head of IMF Mission for Kosovo (media) • Police arrest person, find visit cards, shirts with nationalistic signs (media) • United Nations Day (Kosovapress) • Kearns: Vucic continues to seek closer ties to Putin (media) Serbian Language Media: • Meeting of Serbian delegation with Lajcak ended in Brussels, uncertainty about "tripartite" meeting (Beta, N1) • KoSSev: North Mitrovica omitted from ID cards, technical mistake or intention? • Students: This is beginning of our non-violent and democratic struggle for rights of Serbs in Kosovo (Kosovo Online, media, social media) • Lawyer: Prosecution opened proceeding against President of Football Association in Kosovo over jerseys (Kosovo Online) • Subaric informs British Ambassador about appropriation of municipal land, seeks his support (Radio KIM) • Vulin: Belgrade will not impose sanctions on Moscow (N1) • Less: In long term, border changes are prerequisite for stabilization of Balkans (Kosovo Online) • Vucic recalled Serbian Ambassador to the UN Nemanja Stevanovic (NMagazin, Beta, Danas) • Vucic and Tusk meeting: Strengthening bilateral relations, EU integration, situations in Kosovo (Kontakt plus radio, media) Opinion: • NIN on story which is kept quiet about: Serbian women from Kosovo suffer sexual harassment (NIN, Blic) International: • Serbian, Kosovar negotiators meet with EU envoy to jump start stalled talks (RFE) • Ethnic tensions dominate life in divided Kosovan city, decades after war (Reuters) • Lost in Translation: Open Balkan ID initiative yet to take off (BIRN)