• Ashton expects results (Express) • Difficult duel between Thaçi and Dacic (Zëri) • Recognition of Kosovo could be a condition (Express) • Local elections may cost Jahjaga her post (Koha Ditore) • No agreement on election lists (dailies) • Çeku: Non-participation of KLA associations fades celebrations (Koha Ditore)

• European Commission: Essential, uprooting corruption (Koha Ditore) • AKR demands a ministry from Thaçi (Zëri) • Haziri: Government, incapable of implementing EU agenda (Epoka e Re) • KLA veterans boycott institutions in marking of independence (Koha Ditore)

• Thaçi pledges to disband parallel structures (Zëri) • Thaçi briefs Jahjaga on the new round of dialogue with Serbia (dailies) • With this rhythm, Kosovo is far from lifting of visas (dailies) • “New” strategy against corruption approved by the Assembly (Koha Ditore) • Isa Mustafa will not be candidate for Pristina (Koha Ditore) • Kusari-Lila expects green light for start of SAA negotiations (Koha Ditore) • Haradinaj meets British Minister for Europe, Lidington (dailies) • Orthodox church in Vushtrri preventing road construction (Zëri)

Kuçi: Special status and division are not the topics of the dialogue (Koha Ditore) Kosovo Government has rejected the possibility of the north of Kosovo receiving a special status during “the crucial weeks of the dialogue”, a description given by the EU High Representative for Foreign Policy and Security Catherine Ashton for the meetings of Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaçi and Prime Minister of Serbia Ivica Dacic. Deputy Prime Minister Hajredin Kuçi has removed the dilemma of Pristina accepting something like that.

• Thaçi: Monument in Presevo was a trap (Zëri) • Serb structures in the north close to being legalized (Zëri) • NATO doesn’t support KSF becoming an army (Koha Ditore) • Ankara sees dialogue with Serbia as way to resolve disagreements (dailies) • Police prevents protest in front of Decan Monastery (Zëri, Express)