• Merkel: No change of borders in the Balkans (dailies) • Thaci continues to promote ‘border adjustment’ idea (media) • Arifi: Technical dialogue with Serbia ‘clinically dead’ (Telegrafi) • Kurti: Talk of territory leads closer to war than to peace (VOA/Zeri) • Ahmeti: Debate on border correction, more imagined than concrete (Epoka) • Rakic: No one should touch competencies of Serb municipalities (RTK) • “Mogherini to be dismissed if she participated in partition talks” (RFE/Koha) • Kosovo’s MFA: Serbia to distance itself from Milosevic’s policies (RTK)

Thaci: Dialogue needs to end in mutual recognition (Epoka e Re) Halimi: Unification with Kosovo to go through Assembly (Koha Ditore) Serwer: Partition or exchange of territories lead to destabilization (Koha) Leigh: EU does not support Kosovo’s change of borders (dailies) Simic: Kosovo Serbs to agree to partition if they gain more rights (Koha) Government denies Association/Community having executive powers (Epoka) Man arrested for threatening President Thaci’s family (Kallxo/Zeri)

• Thaci meets with Ali Ahmeti (media) • Mustafa: Neither Thaci nor Haradinaj are to be trusted (Koha) • Haziri: It is our historic duty to unite with Valley, we do not exchange Kosovo north (Koha) • Thaci’s idea for exchange of territories is being assessed as dangerous (Koha) • Delawie: U.S.-Kosovo friendship will not change (media) • Kosovo’s partition is a dangerous solution (media)

PDK leader, Veseli, against border change idea (Koha Ditore) UK, Germany oppose change of borders (RFE/dailies) US Ambassador: Kosovo and Serbia to propose solution themselves (RTK) Vucic: I am engaged for division between Serbs and Albanians (RTK) Thaci decrees new judges, including Interpol-wanted Laban (dailies) Government receives reports from Management Team (Koha Ditore) Djuric: UN seat for Kosovo and nothing for Serbia, a bad idea (RTK) Austria refuses to provide Green Card coverage for Kosovo (Koha)

• Thaci: No partition or exchange of territories (media) • Haradinaj says border changes cannot be made with words (media) • Koha Group terminates communication with Thaci over his remarks (Koha) • Hoti certain Thaci will not lead dialogue with Serbia (Zeri) • Germany supports EU efforts on Kosovo-Serbia dialogue (Bota Sot) • Russia comments on Kosovo – Serbia border issue (Koha) • Croatia: Partition would bring instability to the region (Gazeta Express) • Thaci meets former Trump advisor Steve Bannon in Pristina (Klan Kosova) • Mustafa: No one dares to sign Valley’s remaining under Serbia (Klan Kosova) • Bujanovac Mayor: Partial solution for Presevo Valley brings tragedy (Zeri) • Thaci prolongs Constitutional Court’s blockade (Zeri) • Kosovo academic Islami banned from entering Serbia (dailies) • Foreign Ministry reacts to Serbia’s banning entrance to Islami (RTK) • Women NGOs accuse institutions of failing to protect women, children (media)