• COVID – 19: 462 new cases, 12 deaths (media) • Hoti: We’re preparing necessary measures for New Year holidays (media) • No mass vaccination in Kosovo until 2022, according to The Economist (RTK) • Serbian Police arrests two Kosovars, suspected of entering Serbia (media) • Podujeva Mayor calls for release of persons arrested by Serbian Police (media) • Abrashi: If no agreement on President, new elections in January (Kosovapress) • Tahiri: New elections in Kosovo will be held on February 28 (media) • No consensus on a candidate for Kosovo President post (Deutsche Welle) • Osmani: I will run with my own list in new parliamentary elections (media) • Palokaj: With this pace, the dialogue won’t end even in 2031 (Koha)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, December 11, 2020 Albanian Language Media: • COVID-19: 590 new cases, 13 deaths (media) • Hoti: Parties to agree on either the president or election date (Telegrafi) • Mustafa doesn't view elections as way to resolve president's issue (Koha) • Foundation set up to support Thaci's legal defence in The Hague (media) • KFOR Commander expresses readiness to continue cooperation with KSF (Koha) • Austrian MEP Mandl urges EU to grant Kosovo visa liberalisation (Klan) • Residents of Krusha demand Tasic be retried for war crimes (media) Serbian Language Media: • In Serbian areas in Kosovo 66 new cases of Covid-19, one death (Kontakt plus radio) • Visoki Decani one of 12 most threatened heritages sites, shortlisted for the 7 most endangered (KoSSev) • Father Sava: 200.000 Serbs have not returned to Kosovo (Radio KIM) • “Everyone has right to truth” (Radio KIM) • The hearing on the case of Ivanovic's murder postponed indefinitely (Kontakt plus radio, KoSSev) • Radojevic took oath: It is now up to me to live up to expectations (TV Most) • Pristina Mayor: "The biggest problem of Serbs is that when they turn 18, they leave" (RTK2) • Montgomery: Fixed stances on multiethnic societies in Kosovo and B&H will bring no solution (Kosovo-online) International: • COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories Grip West Balkans, Survey Reveals (Balkan Insight) Humanitarian/Development: • Reidentifying the dead (Prishtina Insight) • Homeless in their homes (Kosovo 2.0)

• COVID-19: 621 new cases, 13 deaths (media) • Hoti: Measures against COVID-19 to be evaluated on Friday (Lajmi) • Varhelyi: EU working to ensure Western Balkans receive Covid vaccine on time (Klan) • BIRN Kosovo exposé of hospital security issues draws criticism (Balkan Insight) • Lajcak: We continued discussions on financial and property claims (media) • LDK MP: Either a new President is elected, or we go to new elections (RTK) • AKR: This government has lost credibility (Klan Kosova) • Ymeri: Vetevendosje wins 40 seats if elections are held soon (Telegrafi) • Court rules Diaspora vote counting violated Constitution (media) • Limaj hails Constitutional Court decision (media) • LVV's Haxhiu reacts to Constitutional Court ruling (media) • Incident in Zubin Potok, attack on a Kosovo Police vehicle (Kallxo) • No room for Kosovo in the EU, says Austrian MP (Klan Kosova) • Osmani slams reports she terminated contract with William Walker (media)

Albanian Language Media: • COVID-19: 562 new cases, 13 deaths (media) • On Human Rights Day, SRSG Zahir Tanin Calls for Placing Human Rights at the Core of the COVID-19 Response and Recovery (media) • Kosovo-Serbia dialogue continues in Brussels (Express) • Lajcak tells what is expected to be discussed today at Prishtina-Belgrade meeting (media) • Kosovo-Serbia Dialogue, no narrowing of differences (Express) • Hoti: We do not go to the dialogue for anyone’s interests but those of the state (media) • Von Cramon urges visa liberalization for Kosovo (media) • “We are not blackmailing, but we do not vote anyone except for Haradinaj” (Telegrafi) • Serwer slams media close to Vucic for referring Albanians with a racist slur (Express) • “Engagement of former EULEX prosecutors, fades Special Court’s credibility” (RTK) • Hoti: Human rights to be dignifiedly represented (RTK) • Abbott with Mother Theresa’s saying on International Human Rights Day (media) Serbian Language Media: • 59 newly infected in Serb areas in Kosovo (KiM radio) • Petkovic: Dialogue is going in the right direction - in the direction of a compromise solution (KoSSev) • Petkovic met Lajcak in Brussels (Kosovo-online) • It is clear now - EU enlargement has been slowed down (Jutarnji List, B92) • Schieb: Serbia's progress in rule of law modest, no new chapter (N1) • Displaced in Z. Potok and Leposavic: We are second-class citizens; we only want our own roof over our heads (KoSSev) • Brnabic: Serbia may introduce mandatory PCR test for people coming from abroad (N1) • Normalization at zero point or step by step process? (KiM radio, 'Dogovor' TV Show) • "What genocide in Kosovo?” (B92, Prva TV, Tanjug) • Gara: Remains of at least 6 persons were discovered at Muslim cemetery in North Mitrovica (Kontakt plus radio) • EP's Bilcík: Serbia standing still, but EU has to be more active too (N1) International: • 12 European heritage sites shortlisted for the 7 Most Endangered Programme 2021 (europanostra.org) • China Increasing its Footprint in Balkan Media, Study Concludes (Balkan Insight) • Southeast Europe is Pioneering a Global ‘Whistleblower Revolution’ (Balkan Insight) • Grenell talks Serbia-Kosovo: people should stop "lingering on the past" (The Tartan) Humanitarian/Development: • Surviving a Pandemic (UNDP Eurasia) • Serbian Health Minister: Return to normal life not possible before spring (B92)

• COVID-19: 561 new cases, 11 deaths (media) • BIRN exposes lack of security at COVID-19 clinics (Prishtina Insight) • Mustafa says healthcare staff needs to be treated with more respect (media) • SHSKUK refutes BIRN report on COVID-19 (Kallxo) • Delegations from Kosovo and Serbia to meet in Brussels today (media) • Hoti: No date when political roundtable will take place (EO/Koha) • Mustafa: Our goal is not to take the post of Kosovo president (T7/Kallxo) • Haziri: President's name goes through LDK offices (media) • Hoxhaj: President to be decided through parliamentary cooperation (Klan) • LVV vows to sue Serbia for genocide at ICJ (media) • Gucati's appeal rejected at the Specialist Chambers (media)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, December 9, 2020 Albanian Language Media: • COVID-19: 561 new cases, 11 deaths (media) • Kosovo PM's Office: Only financial claims to be discussed in Brussels (Klan) • Hoti expects Serbia to apologise for crimes in Kosovo (media) • Osmani: Victims' voice cannot be silenced, Serbia to recognise weight of its crimes (media) • Kurti: Kosovo needs re-legitimisation of institutions through fresh elections (media) • Mustafa: No readiness to discuss the president, we are sliding towards elections (Telegrafi) • Hoxhaj: PDK will not become part of a process that deepens internal divide (media) • Tahiri: PDK has no votes for Haradinaj’s candidacy for President (media) • Next statutory session for former KLA leaders on December 17 (media) • Germany commits €72.1 million to support Kosovo's European integration (Koha) Serbian Language Media: • 67 new cases of Covid-19, one death in Serbian areas (Radio KIM) • Tahiri: Presidential elections in Kosovo in late February (RTK2) • Petkovic: We will insist in Brussels tomorrow on ZSO and security of returnees (Kosovo-online) • Germany: Opening of chapters depends on Belgrade, not on Brussels or Berlin (N1) • Jevtic with COM KFOR on security situation in Kosovo (Kosovo-online) • Ministry for Communities and Returns: Returnee attacked in Dubrava village (Radio KIM) • US Committee: Bosnia dysfunctional and susceptible to Russia and China influence (N1) • Vucic: If I would sing an act on independent Kosovo, I would win Nobel Peace Prize (B92) • Janjic: Biden unlikely to follow Engel's recommendations regarding Kosovo (Kosovo Online, Tanjug, TV Prva) • “Belgrade is aware of what the Serwer-Albright-Engel trio is trying to do” (B92, Tanjug) • Jeremic: We did not lose at the International Court of Justice, that is a lie (Kosovo Online) • Viola von Cramon: This is not an anti-Serbian attitude, but a pro-European one (Politika, Tanjug) International: • BCSP and KCSS: Citizens of Kosovo and Serbia support the dialogue, but see no benefits (EWB) • Serbia Convicts Yugoslav Soldier of Killing Albanian Civilians (Balkan Insight) • Albright Tells Congress Corruption 'Crippling' Western Balkans, Says U.S. Needs To Step Up Regional Presence (RFE) • Viral vulnerability: How the pandemic is making democracy sick in the Western Balkans (ecfr.eu) Humanitarian/Development: • Court suspends work of two hydropower plants in Decan (media)

• COVID – 19: 643 new cases, 17 deaths (media) • EP will again call on non-recognising countries to recognise Kosovo (RFE) • “Vetevendosje will not engage in deals for Kosovo President post” (media) • Daut Haradinaj doesn’t rule out coalition with Vetevendosje (media) • Almqvist: Fake news study doesn’t represent position of EP (media) • Engel: Serbia cannot join EU without recognising Kosovo (media) • Albright: US and EU to cooperate in initiatives in Western Balkans (media) • Montenegrin government: Footnote for Kosovo was a technical mistake (media)

Albanian Language Media: • COVID-19: 557 new cases, 17 deaths (media) • WHO: Vaccination in Kosovo cannot begin before spring (media) • Kosovo-Serbia dialogue to resume Thursday (Klan Kosova) • Hoti expects the roundtable on President to take place next week (RTK) • Kosovo receives U.S. guarantee that 4 September agreement will implement (RTK) • Support of Kosovo and BiH to be requested at U.S. Congress today (Koha) • German Ambassador Rohde's interview with Gazeta Express • Hoti: Petkovic did not go to Skenderaj, I've spoken to mayor Jashari (Express) • LVV proposes Albanian Parliament resolution condemning Serbia’s genocide in Kosovo (Express) Serbian Language Media: • In Serbian communities in Kosovo 86 new cases of coronavirus, 30 cures (Kontakt plus radio) • Dacic: Kosovo will be on Assembly’s agenda in coming period (FoNet) • UNS and UNS in Kosovo: RTK to stop labeling (KoSSev) • Petkovic denies that the supply of electricity to the north of Kosovo will stop in mid-December (RTS) • Petkovic visits Banjska Monastery in Zvecan municipality, met Bishop Teodosije (Jedinstvo) • Grubjesic: Von Cramon's statement malicious; blockade will affect dialogue (N1) • EU adopts global human rights sanctions regime (N1) International: • Serbia Backs Russia Again in UN Vote on Crimea (Balkan Insight) Humanitarian/Development: • Hoti encourages survivors of sexual violence to apply for status (media) • Activities of the regional shelter for victims of domestic violence within “16 Days of Activism” campaign (Radio Mitrovica sever)

• COVID-19: 534 new cases, 15 deaths (media) • Hoti: Measures will be reviewed at the end of the week (media) • "COVID tests to be performed in six other centres by January" (Koha) • LVV invites Minister Zemaj to report on oxygen shortages claims (media) • Hoti responds to Haradinaj: I make the decisions, everyone knows this (media) • Haradinaj: If we don’t agree on President, we go to new elections (media) • Kurti, Lajcak talk about the dialogue and missing persons (media) • “Attacks against the Special Court, a very big mistake” (media) • Hoti claims EP report was built on conspiracy theories (Kosovapress/Koha) • Tahiri: Government preparing institutional response to EP report (media) • German ambassador: Some countries still say no to visa liberalisation (media) • Kurti: Europe to condemn Serbia’s crimes in Kosovo (media) • Jashari apologises to families of martyrs for Serbian official’s visit (media) • Kosovo institutions issued permission for Petkovic's visit (Telegrafi)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, December 7, 2020 Albanian Language Media: • COVID-19: 519 new cases, 14 deaths (media) • Kosovo applies to obtain COVID-19 vaccine (media) • Kosovo Government allocates €200,000 for KLA war associations (media) • Working group to lay foundation for war crimes research institute (media) • Trade unions claim economic recovery law is discriminatory for certain sectors (Koha) • Constitutional Court to meet in coming days to deliberate on Arifi case (Kosovapress) • Kosovo's foreign ministry not informed of Petkovic's visit to north (Zeri) • ECAP fines Serbian List for electoral silence violation (media) Serbian Language Media: • 15 new cases of Covid-19, two recoveries and one death registered in Serbian areas in Kosovo (KoSSev) • Office for KiM Director visits North Kosovo, sends message of Serbia’s support and peace with Albanian neighbors (KoSSev) • Despite about a hundred infected health workers, there is plenty of us, we are motivated to work, says Dr Elek (KoSSev) • Trendafilova: The court’s mandate to provide justice; we do not deal with politics (Kontakt plus radio, Politika, N1) • CPT: Gazeta Metro and RTK published inaccurate and dangerous information about our work (Radio KIM) • Kosovo embassies get a shipment of KLA flags (KoSSev, N1) • EUCO unlikely to adopt EU ministers’ conclusions on Western Balkans enlargement? (N1) Opinion: • How do we judge women who kill their abusive partners? (Kosovo 2.0) Humanitarian/Develiopment • Behind bars in the home (Prishtina Insight) • Kon: It is unlikely there won't be any measures for New Year holidays (B92)