• COVID-19: 14 deaths, 259 new cases (media)
• Osmani: 17 October remains the date of the elections (media)
• Serbia, Kosovo urged to publish ‘deal to open up war archives’ (BIRN)
• Merkel: The Balkans have a long way to go toward EU (Radio Free Europe)
• Merkel visits Tirana today, expected to meet Kurti too (Koha)
• Escobar: Kosovo, Serbia should not avoid dialogue (RTK)
• Enlargement standstill, political calendars delaying breakthrough in dialogue (EWB)
• President Osmani received Ambassador Kosnett in a farewell meeting (media)
• Salih Mustafa, first ex-KLA member to stand trial in the Hague (Express)

Albanian Language Media:

• COVID-19: 14 deaths, 259 new cases (media)
• Kurti: We’ve nothing to hide; we were under international administration (EO)
• Kusari-Lila comments on eventual postponement of local elections (Koha)
• Gashi: Elections cannot be cancelled, the campaign can (Kosovapress)
• Kurti, Vitia attend inauguration of Children’s Hospital (Indeksonline)
• Indictment filed against ex-mayor of Leposavic and 14 other persons (media)
• Kosovo Minister attends Western Balkans Rail Summit in Belgrade (media)
• Experts: Russia has toughened its engagement against Kosovo statehood (VOA)

Serbian Language Media:

• "The Balkans will miss Angela Merkel" (DW, B92)
• Kosovo President rejects Community of Serb Municipalities (N1, KoSSev)
• Petkovic: Irresponsible messages from Pristina are a new stumbling block (RTS)
• YIHR: Citizens must know the content of the agreement on opening secret archives between Serbia and Kosovo (Danas, NMagazin)
• What message does Angela Merkel's visit send? (B92, RTS)
• Trajkovic: If Merkel had not supported Vucic, the Balkans would have been more stable today (Kosovo Online)
• Another house in Orahovac broken into (KiM radio)
• Milena Popovic: Court postpones my testimony (Danas, Beta)
• Vucic: Djukanovic wants Montenegro without Serbs (AlJazeera, B92, Tanjug)

International:

• Merkel To Visit Serbia On Farewell Trip To Balkans (RFE)
• Fassino: EU must immediately send out positive signals to the Western Balkans (EWB)

• COVID-19: 23 deaths, 424 new cases (media)
• Kosovo Government updates COVID-19 measures (media)
• NIPHK recommends postponing elections due to COVID-19 (Koha)
• PM Kurti to Al Jazeera: NATO in Kosovo is here to stay (media)
• Lajcak to visit Kosovo this week, meet Kurti and Bislimi (Koha)
• Bislimi: KLA archives were and remain open, there is nothing to hide there (media)
• Berger: Common regional market is a historic project that should be implemented (DW)
• Military police to have authorisations over military and civil international entities (Koha)
• Svecla: We will not apply for Interpol membership this year (Kosovapress)
• “Vucic wants a Kosovo without Albanians and a Montenegro without Montenegrins” (media)

Albanian Language Media:

• COVID-19: 30 deaths, 685 new cases (media)
• Kurti: We acted based on Health Institute recommendations (media)
• Health Ministry proposes school year to be postponed to September 26 (Telegrafi)
• “With current pace, Kosovo can vaccinate 70 percent of population” (Koha)
• European Union deploys Election Observation Mission (media)
• Haradinaj: Kosovo doesn’t have KLA files; we gave everything to NATO (media)

Serbian Language Media:

• Djuric with Escobar: I am looking forward to working together (Kosovo Online)
• Pec double homicide, a part of a long list of political assassinations in Kosovo; Beqaj: Unsolved assassinations encourage new ones (KoSSev)
• Petkovic: Families deserve the truth and victims deserve peace (Kosovo Online, KiM radio)
• Spahiu: Community of Serbian municipalities a path towards the final agreement, Kosovo needs recognition not Serbia (Kosovo Online)
• Office for KiM: House of Mirjana Dedic from Orahovac stoned
• Petkovic: False accusations of hate speech (KiM radio)
• Belgrade and Washington agree: Fighting terrorism successful only in partnership (N1, Beta)
• Serbs’ expectations from opening Kosovo's and the former KLA archives (KiM radio)
• Online school in Serbian communities and next week (KiM radio)

International:

• Deputy PM’s threats shake Montenegro’s fragile coalition govt (BIRN)
• Work Starts in Serbia on Chinese Sinopharm Vaccines Factory (Balkan Insight)

• COVID-19: 19 deaths, 703 new cases (media)
• Kosovo government expected to decide on postponing school year (Telegrafi)
• Kurti will meet Merkel in Tirana, spokesperson confirms (Koha)
• Kosovo to abandon license plates agreement with Serbia (BIRN)
• Bislimi's remarks on KLA archives spark reactions (media)
• Hoti: Bislimi’s remarks about KLA archives were misinterpreted (Klan Kosova)
• Petkovic: Pristina finally recognised existence of KLA archives (Klan)
• Kosovo Assembly to end summer recess, convenes next week (media)
• Haxhiu: We will visit KLA leaders in Hague in late September (media)
• Greece supports Open Balkan initiative (Zeri)
• Kosovo: the goal of Serbia's global 'vaccine diplomacy' (EU Observer)

Albanian Language Media:

• COVID-19: 19 deaths, 703 new cases (media)
• CEC asks all election staff to get vaccinated against COVID-19 (media)
• "Serbia has agreed in opening of all archives, including those of KLA” (Kallxo/Zeri)
• Bislimi: Serbia not interested in having serious talks with Kosovo (VOA Albanian)
• Prosecution gives little detail on the double murder in Peja (media)
• Thaci's defence requests dismissal of KSC judge (Klan Kosova)

Serbian Language Media:

• Two deaths, 44 newly infected with Covid-19 in Serbian communities (KiM radio)
• Vucic on Merkel’s visit, Brussels dialogue, Montenegro … (B92)
• Patriarch Porfirije: Kosovo holds the ultimate meaning of a magnet that binds us (KoSSev, N1)
• Petkovic: New expert-level discussions due in October (Tanjug)
• Dejan Vuk Stankovic: The Brussels negotiations do not make any sense; a new format is needed (Kosovo Online)
• A unilateral decision with practical and political consequences (KiM radio)
• Trendafilova: The special court is not monoethnic, it deals with individual responsibility (Kosovo Online)
• Belgrade hopes for unbiased approach by BiH High Representative (N1)

Opinion:

• In the Balkans, Let Us Remember to Forget (Balkan Insight)

International:

• North Macedonia: At least 10 die in COVID-19 hospital fire (AP)
• Serbia, Hungary Will ‘Rebuild, Protect, Central Europe’, Orban Says (Balkan Insight)

• COVID-19: 24 deaths, 1,029 new cases (media)
• Kurti: Friday marks administration of 1 million doses (Telegrafi)
• Kurti: Issue of missing persons cannot wait (Radio Free Europe)
• Kosovo Prime Minister, Serbian President won’t meet in September (Exit News)
• Merkel to visit the Balkans, expected to meet Kurti (DW)
• Lajcak after meeting chief negotiators says parties far apart (Express)
• For Kosovo President who once fled home, Afghan refugee crisis is personal (Wion)
• President Osmani calls on India to recognize Kosovo (Express)
• Government approves 15 bills, regulations, other important decisions (media)
• Trendafilova on why she chose to visit North to talk about SPC (AP)
• PDK candidate for Peja mayor killed in double murder (media)
• Greece reassures Serbia its position on Kosovo has not changed (Euractiv)
• Kosovo welcomes Spanish football team for World Cup qualifier (BIRN)

Albanian Language Media:

• COVID-19: 24 deaths, 1,029 new cases (media)
• Vitia: relief of measures against COVID-19, not expected (media)
• Bislimi: There will be no Kurti-Vucic meeting this month (RFE Albanian)
• Participation of Serbian official declared non-grata in Kosovo puts dialogue at risk (euronews.al)
• Kurti and Varhelyi talk about Afghan citizens sheltered in Kosovo (Koha)
• Kosovo Urged to Start Countering Russian Media Disinformation (Prishtina Insight)
• Kosnett meets Afghans in Bondsteel (Klan)
• The numbers of political entities for the October elections are announced (Klan)

Serbian Language Media:

• Bislimi: No elements for the meeting between Vucic and Kurti at the moment (KiM radio, N1)
• Varvitsiotis: Greece's position on Kosovo remains unchanged (media)
• Resumption of Belgrade - Pristina dialogue in Brussels (B92, Tanjug)
• "Little Trump" on Kosovo: "Biden squandered everything" (Tanjug, B92, Blic)
• CEC announced draw for ranking political entities on local elections, SL under the number 147 (Kosovo Online)
• Orban: To find the southernmost line with Serbia to stop the migration wave (Kosovo Online, Tanjug)

International:

• The Cocaine Market Is More Competitive And Violent (eurasiareview.com)

Humanitarian/Development:

• Western Balkan coal plants causing thousands of deaths (euobserver.com)

• COVID-19: 28 deaths, 920 new cases (media)
• Health Ministry appeals for vaccination; will work on Sundays too (Telegrafi)
• Kosovo Deputy PM implies reciprocity with Serbia on license plates (Koha)
• Krasniqi: Vetevendosje attempt to postpone election suspends democracy (media)
• PDK’s Nikaj: Government must not allow for vaccines to expire (Telegrafi)
• PDK leader: Kurti is putting on a show in the dialogue! (Euronews Albania)
• Kosovo ‘will only give refuge to at-risk Afghan refugees’ (BIRN)
• Russia with an aggressive campaign against Kosovo (Radio Free Europe)

Albanian Language Media:

• COVID-19: 28 deaths, 920 new cases (media)
• Poland to donate 100,000 vaccines to Kosovo (media)
• Lajcak: There are many urgent matters to be discussed (media)
• LDK rejects the idea of postponing local elections (media)
• Trendafilova holds press conference as she begins Kosovo visit (media)
• Police arrest PSD activists after interrupting Trendafilova's press conference (media)
• OKDiario: Spain plans to send Afghans to Kosovo, recognition mentioned as exchange (Koha)

Serbian Language Media:

• In Serbian areas 40 new cases of Covid-19, one death (Radio Mitrovica sever)
• Petkovic: We are here to fight for Serbian interests, the new Vucic-Kurti meeting depends on today's talks (Tanjug)
• Grubjesic: Brussels should ensure Belgrade and Pristina's opposing positions come closer (RTS, Danas, NMagazin)
• Serbian FM to new EU Delegation chief: EU membership priority and commitment (N1)
• Vllasi: Enthronement of Serbian Patriarch better not be in Pec (Kosovo Online)
• Trajkovic: Is Vllasi announcing another “Log Revolution” near Pec? (Kosovo Online)

Opinion:

• On the road to nowhere (Kosovo 2.0)

International:

• North Macedonia President Warns Of Refugee Influx In Balkans From Afghan Turmoil (RFE)