• COVID-19: 271 new cases, 12 deaths (media) • Travel restrictions tightened (Prishtina Insight) • Osmani concludes consultations with political parties (media) • Hoti: LDK is a favourite to win upcoming elections (media) • Mustafa: We will not make pre-election coalition with any of the parties (RTK) • Enver Hoxhaj announced PDK's candidate for prime minister (media) • Hoxhaj: PDK is competing for the first place (T7/RTK) • Poll projects Vetevendosje winning elections (Klan) • Challenging path in formation of new Assembly, Government (Koha) • Tahiri urges political parties to adopt 2021 budget (media) • Von Cramon: Bringing down Kurti-led government was a mistake (DW) • Petkovic attacks von Cramon for saying Serbia will recognise Kosovo (Express) • Dacic: Osmani ten times worse than Citaku (Koha) • GLPS survey indicates half of Kosovo citizens ready to migrate (media)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, December 23, 2020 Albanian Language Media: • COVID-19: 271 new cases, 12 deaths (media) • Mustafa: LDK to announce candidate for prime minister after elections are set (media) • Bislimi: Polls indicate LVV stands to win 55 MP seats (media) • PDK spokesperson reacts to LVV's poll (Kallxo) • LDK blames CEC for the downfall of Hoti-led government (Kosovapress/Koha) • NISMA: We have no red lines towards any party (media) • AKR open to prospects of a pre-election coalition (media) • Osmani meets representatives of 6+ Group, Serbian List (media) • Kusari-Lila to run alongside LVV in upcoming elections (media) • Haradinaj: I would drop presidential candidacy in favour of Jashari family (Zeri/RTK) • Barrie Lynne Freeman from USA appointed deputy head of UNMIK (media) • EU supports Kosovo with 24 million euros (media) • Kosovo suspends flights with UK over coronavirus variant concerns (media) Serbian Language Media: • In Serbian communities 39 new cases of Covid-19, four deceased (Kontakt plus radio) • Vucic: State official to get vaccine first (N1, FoNet) • Reeker: The Balkans are a geopolitical field (KiM radio, Tanjug) • EU: Pristina to respect and implement the agreements from the dialogue with Belgrade (Tanjug, Radio Mitrovica sever) • Belgrade-Pristina agreement within next couple of months impossible (Radio KIM) • Jevtic: No PCR test needed to enter Kosovo from Serbia (KoSSev) • RTS: Murders and disappearances of journalists in Kosovo - crimes that everyone is silent about (Kosovo Online) • Office for KiM reacts to stoning of school in Vitina (TV Most) • Serbian List: EULEX, UNMIK and KFOR to ensure safety for all citizens (Kosovo-online) • The Fatherland Movement: Vucic to say loud and clear whether he sold or gave away the energy system (nspm.rs) • Serbian List: Fabrications that someone sold the electricity system in Kosovo (Kosovo Online) Opinion: • A New EU Deal for the Balkans: Time to Remake the Anteroom (geopoliticalmonitor.com) International: • Kosovo Finds 11 War Victims in Hidden Graves in 2020 (Balkan Insight)

• COVID - 19: 137 new cases, ten deaths (media) • Acting President Osmani meets four parties, meetings to continue today (media) • Constitutional Court preparing to publish decision (Koha) • Kurti: No delays in declaring new elections (media) • Sources: Enver Hoxhaj, PDK’s candidate for Prime Minister (Telegrafi) • Vetevendosje’s Konjufca doesn’t rule out coalition with PDK (media) • PDK responds to Konjufca: Too early to talk (media) • Krasniqi: PDK heads to elections to win (media) • Limaj: We don’t rule out a coalition with the PDK (RTK) • Pacolli: AKR has no red lines for other parties (Lajmi) • EU: This Assembly must approve the budget (media) • Assembly expected to be dissolved (Koha) • Orlando: Kosovo to have free and fair elections (media) • Gashi: Vetevendosje will come first in the elections, PDK second (media) • Hasani: New Assembly cannot abolish the Specialist Chambers (media) • Police arrest Serb war crimes suspect in Peja (media) • OSCE condemns assault on reporter in Prishtina (media) • Online media in Balkans ‘need regulation, not censorship’ (Balkan Insight)

Albanian Language Media: • COVID-19: 137 new cases, ten deaths (media) • Hoti to announce new anti-Covid measures (media) • Hoti vows to respect Constitutional Court's ruling (media) • US Embassy calls on parties and institutions to respect court’s decision (media) • Acting president Osmani meets head of EU Office Szunyog (Koha) • Kurti: Elections to be held as soon as possible (media) • LDK's Abrashi: We are ready for elections (media) • Hoxhaj: PDK to soon announce candidate for prime minister (media) • LVV: Constitutional Court ruling does not prevent Kurti from running for election (RFE/Koha) • Isufi: AAK ready for elections, will run on its own (media) • Daka: CEC ready to organise the elections (media) • “Only final court decision excludes MP candidates from running” (media) • Hasani: Constitutional Court's ruling, strange (Telegrafi) • Tahiri: Law clearly sets out who can run for election in Kosovo (Indeksonline) • Gerxhaliu: Budget must be adopted before we go to elections (RTK) • Journalist Valon Syla assaulted in Pristina (media) Serbian Language Media: • In the Serbian communities in Kosovo, 46 new cases, four died (Kontakt plus radio) • First shipment of Pfizer vaccine reported to have arrived in Serbia (Nova.rs, N1, Tanjug) • Dacic: Unserious attitude of Pristina, most important to have peace in Kosovo (Danas) • Father Sava: Decisions of Constitutional Court selectively implemented, justice applied on ethnic basis (Kosovo-online) • Lazarevic: Kosovo politics demonstrated its irresponsibility and lack of seriousness (Kosovo-online) • Petkovic: Serbia and Vucic did not hand over anything to Albanians (Kosovo-online) • Rada Trajkovic: Vucic handed over one part of Serbian energy network (Danas) • Father Sava reacts to Suvo Grlo village church case (Kontakt plus radio) • A Serb came to Pec for documents, arrested for a "war crime" and taken to Pristina (Kosovo Online) • Office for KiM: Arrests aim to keep Serbs in constant fear and uncertainty (Kosovo Online) International: • Kosovo to hold early election after court ruling (AP) • Kosovo's highest court rules parliamentary vote electing government was illegal (Reuters) • Kosovo Heading For Fresh Elections After High Court Rules Parliament Vote For Government Was Illegal (RFE) • Kosovo Faces New Elections After Court Rules Govt Illegitimate (Balkan Insight) Humanitarian/Development: • NGO Link only in December donated 15.000 protective visors to health workers in Kosovo (KoSSev) • Serbia Leads Region in Expecting COVID-19 Vaccines Within Days (Balkan Insight) • Share This Now! How Conspiracy Theories Swamped North Macedonia (Balkan Insight)

• Constitutional Court annuls election of Hoti Government (Prishtina Insight) • Acting President to summon political parties today to set election date (media) • Haziri: The country is going to new elections (Kallxo) • PDK: Elections are welcome because coalition lacked majority (media) • NISMA implies it could join PDK before new elections (media) • AAK’s Gjini says budget must be adopted before going to new elections (media) • COVID - 19: 264 new cases, six deaths (media) • Confidential negotiations for the vaccine (Radio Free Europe) • Vetevendosje MP slams government for poor management of pandemic (media) • Hoti: Some differences with Serbian List; we’re trying to overcome them (media) • The failed attempts to resolve the Kosovo President post (Koha) • DFC to open office in Prishtina soon (Klan Kosova)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, December 21, 2020 Albanian Language Media: • COVID-19: 264 new cases, six deaths (media) • Hoti: Kosovo among countries that have best managed the pandemic (media) • Zemaj: No new measures without coordination with relevant institutions (media) • PDK's Haxhiu accuses government of trying to present false picture of COVID-19 cases (media) • Hoti on president's election: January is too late (Koha) • Tahiri: Vucic's statements, continuation of his provocations (Telegrafi) • Government of Kosovo adopts anti-corruption strategy (media) • Kosovo, North Macedonia governments to hold joint meeting (Kosovapress) Serbian Language Media: • 33 new cases of Covid-19, two deaths registered in Serbian areas in Kosovo on Saturday (Radio KIM) • Kosovo leaders react to Vucic’s position on recognition, Macron announces a meeting (KoSSev) • Vulin visits the SAJ in Batajnica, the YIHR reacts, the US ambassadors call for the prosecution of all war crimes (KoSSev) • New restrictions in place at Serbian border crossings (N1, SRNA) • Serbian List also today didn’t take part at government’s session in Pristina (Kosovo-online) • ''Our Church'' sign in Albanian and English placed on the road leading to the church in Suvo Grlo village (Kosovo Online, Radio Mitrovica sever) • Office for KiM: We are concerned over yet another brutal attack against Serbian religious and cultural heritage (Kosovo-online) • Selakovic: UN of special importance for the protection of sovereignty and territorial integrity (Danas) • Milivojevic: Walker claims Thaci was innocent out of fear from his own responsibility for KLA crimes (Kosovo-online) Opinion: • A year that exposed the entrenched violence against women (Prishtina Insight) Humanitarian/Development: • WHO: There is no evidence that a new strain of COVID-19 is more dangerous (Tanjug, B92) • Holiday traffic clogs Balkan borders despite virus warnings (AP)

• COVID – 19: 378 new cases, 10 deaths (media) • Between death and hope: Nurses reflect on a long year (Prishtina Insight) • Hoti and Vucic clash in distance, far from the table of talks (media) • Musliu: Hoti is a weak prime minister, LDK is seizing the state (media) • Rexhepi: New elections, if compromise on President post isn’t found (media) • Shala: Haradinaj’s election for President would suit PDK too (Epoka) • “The frustrating failure of the German EU presidency” (Koha) • Walker: I haven’t seen any proof against Thaci and the others (media) • Serbia: Exhuming the skeletons of the Kosovo war (Balkan Insight) • Vucic says no to recognition of Kosovo (Euronews Albania)

• COVID-19: 385 new cases, seven deaths (media) • Health minister warns of new measures next week (Prishtina Insight) • Covid vaccine to reach the Balkans the same time as the EU (Koha) • LDK’s Abrashi: First president then elections (media) • Vucic: While I am president, Serbia will not recognise Kosovo (media) • Kosovo FM Haradinaj-Stublla reacts to Vucic's statement (media) • Leader of Kosovo War Veterans Pleads Innocent at Hague Court (Balkan Insight) • Kadri Veseli's family establishes fund for his defence (Klan) • Remains of 2 war missing Kosovars found (AP)

Albanian Language Media: • COVID-19: 385 new cases, seven deaths (media) • Ex-KLA members appear today before Hague Court (Gazeta Express) • Osmani suspends secretary Driton Gashi on suspicion of violations (Koha) • LVV objects Selmanaj’s presence, Assembly session interrupted (media) • LVV relates Selmanaj’s presence at session with Hoti’s motion on Ujman Lake (media) • Gashi responds to LVV: Selmanaj will be present at the hearings (media) • PDK: Time for new elections, LDK’s and LVV’s behavior, unacceptable (media) • Basha pledges new Assembly to adopt resolution condemning Serbian genocide (Euronews.al) • One year and six months prison for terrorist call against Ambassador Gashi (media) Serbian Language Media: • 29 new cases of Covid-19, three deaths registered in Serbian areas in Kosovo (KoSSev) • Varhelyi: We are working to make vaccines available to the Western Balkans (RFE) • Kosovo minister says Serbia blocking power transfers (Beta, N1) • What does Biden bring? (TV show Agreement, KiM radio) • Import of Pfizer vaccine in Serbia approved (B92) • NATO, US plan 2021 military exercise in Serbia's neighboring countries (Beta, N1) Opinion: • Unlocking Kosovo in 2021: last chance to right the wrong (EWB) International: • Czecks, Slovaks, Reject Bulgaria’s ‘Historical’ Twist to Enlargement Criteria (Balkan Insight) • Kosovo Fires Intelligence Chief Over ‘Raid on President’s Safe’ (Balkan Insight) • Unlocking Kosovo in 2021: last chance to right the wrong (European Western Balkans) Humanitarian/Development: • Neglecting Society’s Little Ones (Kosovo 2.0)

• COVID-19: 500 new cases, 9 deaths (media) • PM Hoti asks intelligence chief Gashi to step down (media) • Osmani comments on decision to relieve of duty KIA chief (media) • Former KIA chief addresses attempts to obtain classified documents claims (media) • Peci reacts to Gashi's statement on attempts to open safe in President's Office (media) • “The red line on talks with Serbia”, acting President Vjosa Osmani on Euronews Albania • Hoti: Missing persons, priority issue in dialogue with Serbia (media) • LDK adds budget to the anticipated meeting of political parties (Koha) • Hoxhaj: LVV to make serious invitation to bring down government (media) • Haxhiu: No need to experiment by making Haradinaj president (Telegrafi) • Jashari: Our family ready to take presidential responsibilities (Klan) • Constitutional Court decides on LVV's complaint against Thaci (media) • Health Minister calls for measures to be taken after BIRN investigation (Prishtina Insight)