• Assembly prepares for constitutive session, VV-LDK no agreement yet (media)
• Hoti: If we don’t get post of President, we will go in opposition (Indeksonline)
• Arben Gashi: Negotiations for a coalition take time (RTK)
• Bahtiri: LVV- LDK coalition will be reached, never with PDK (Telegrafi)
• Nagavci: LVV structures did not discuss post of President (Kallxo)
• Rakic: Serbian List will not impede creation of institutions (RTK)
• Land swap idea damaged Kosovo’s position in dialogue, poll shows (media)
• Rama invites Thaci to summit on Balkans Mini-Schengen (media)
• Pacolli submits war crime files to the prosecution (RTK)
• NISMA leader Limaj’s advisor wounded in Pristina (media)

Albanian Language Media:

• Kurti: We will not form a coalition with the Serbian List (media)
• Muhaxheri: Chances of no coalition with LVV are zero (media)
• Bosch mentions candidates for future Kosovo President (Koha)
• Turkey deports two Kosovar nationals (media)
• Kurti and Konjufca at prosecution tomorrow for criminal charges against Thaci and Veseli (RTK)
• German Ambassador: Election process took too much time (RTK)
• LDK continues to insist on the post of the President (media)
• Haradinaj: The winner should create institutions (media)

Serbian Language Media:

• Tombstones at Orthodox cemetery in Lipljan demolished again, Djuric condemns the incident (RTS)
• Hodzic in strongest terms condemned desecration of Orthodox cemetery in Lipljan (Radio KIM)
• Fabrizi: Region needs normalization of Belgrade-Pristina relations (Beta, N1)

International:

• How Brexit sent Kosovo to back of the EU queue (The Times)
• Kosovo ‘enslaved from within’ by corruption, says incoming PM (FT)
• War Criminals Given Respect in Balkan Societies, Activists Warn (Balkan Insight)

Humanitarian/Development:

• The warnings of the Gracanka River and tailings (KoSSev, Gracanicaonline.info)

• Mustafa: Talks have not stalled; mutual trust is fundamental (media)
• Kurti: Serbs to have a minister; we won’t form coalition with Serbian List (media)
• Muhaxherri reveals which five ministries belong to LDK (RTV Dukagjini)
• Haradinaj calls on winning parties not to delay formation of government (Zeri)
• Albanian PM insists on Balkans Mini-Schengen (Koha)
• KSF continues to be most trusted institution by Kosovo people (Epoka)

Albanian Language Media:

• LDK’s Mustafa calls urgent meeting of leaders of party branches (Indeksonline)
• Lutfi Haziri: We are trying to find a consensual candidate for President (Periskopi)
• Bajqinovci: Agreement on President post after formation of government” (media)
• Tahiri: New elections could produce the same results (Lajmi)
• Hoti: Berlin process, good opportunity for Kosovo and Western Balkans (media)
• Pacolli for a private audience at Pope Francis today (RTK)

Serbian Language Media:

• Zyberaj releases SPS’s session record from ’99, claiming grounds for Dacic to be summoned to Special Court but what does the document actually contain? (KoSSev)
• Serbian FM Dacic: "I'm ready for the Hague, with tons of evidence proving who was expelled from Kosovo" (B92, Vecernje Novosti)
• SDP: Publicity more important than resolving murder (Radio KIM)

International:

• Foggo: It is up to Serbia how much it wants to cooperate with NATO (EWB)
• Kosovo man charged in Germany with supporting Islamic State (AP)

Humanitarian/Development:

• DSRSG Coleman meets delegation from Pristina school (Kosova.info)
• Serbia is one of the Vice-Presidents of the next UN Climate Change Conference (BETA, B92)
• Fate of the missing, Kosovo’s serious wound (RTK)
• Climate change does not need Schengen visa (EWB)

• President's post keeps LVV-LDK agreement up in the air (Koha/Zeri)
• Abazi: LDK wants what it doesn’t belong to it (media)
• Engel: I expect the new government to be formed soon (Zeri)
• Brussels still in search of envoy for Kosovo-Serbia dialogue (Koha Ditore)
• Vucic to Haradinaj and Kurti: I do not want to insult, I want peace (Epoka)
• Dardan Molliqaj elected PSD leader (media)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, December 13, 2019

Albanian Language Media:

• Kurti: We are working day and night to reach coalition with LDK (Klan Kosova/Kallxo)
• U.S. Ambassador Philip Kosnett’s interview with Jeta Xharra
• Kosovo can enter a blockade if LVV refuses to propose a name for Assembly Speaker (Express)

Serbian Language Media:

• ''No one has the right to tell a family to stop hoping their member will be found'' (RTV KiM)
• Where did Kosovo get from thousands of pages of documents about war crimes? (FRE, Radio KIM)
• Ombudsman launches investigation into excessive use of force against villagers protesting the construction of MHE in Strpce (KoSSev)
• Rakic: Fake indictments against Serbs published in Albanian media (TV Most)

International:

• Opening new Chapter with Serbia was mostly a message of good will to the region (EWB)
• If Kosovo, Albania & Macedonia are considered for EU membership, why not independent Scotland & Catalonia? – Puigdemont (Russia Today)

Humanitarian/Development:

• Kosnett: ‘I eat this air with a fork like everybody else’ (Prishtina Insight)
• 99 underage mothers during 2019 (Klan)

• Kurti promises agreement with Mustafa before constitutive assembly session (Koha)
• Kurti: LDK seeks President’s post, but they don’t say who is the candidate (RTK)
• Kosnett: The U.S. never supported border change (Kallxo)
• UK's ambassador meets LDK leaders (media)
• Selimi: Lajcak, serious candidate for EU envoy in Kosovo-Serbia dialogue (media)
• “Serbian List not an obstacle to formation of new Kosovo government” (media)
• Palokaj: EU has failed in the dialogue led by Mogherini (Koha)
• Constitutional Court suspends law on salaries (media)
• Montenegro court confirms sentence for war crimes in Kosovo (Zeri)
• Kosovo opens its embassy in Oslo, Norway (RTK)

Albanian Language Media:

• Kurti: There can be no border changes of Kosovo (DW)
• Kurti: No meeting with Mustafa today (media)
• LDK’s Avdyli optimistic a coalition agreement with LVV will be reached (Telegrafi)
• EU: Corruption remains a serious challenge in Kosovo (Kosovapress)

Serbian Language Media:

• Brammertz: Balkans deny crimes and glorifies criminals (RTS)
• "It would be great if Serbia wanted to join NATO" (Tanjug, Blic, B92)
• Djuric: Initiators of conflict and biggest criminals in Kosovo present themselves as Albanian leaders in Kosovo (Danas)
• Serbian List: ''Albanian politicians to stop hating Serbs'' (RTV Pulse, Vecernje Novosti, Radio Mitrovica North)
• Silvana Arsovic discharged from hospital (RTS)

Opinion:

• Baton Haxhiu: It appears the U.S. Embassy has received pledge of future PM (Klan)

International:

• Hopes Rise in Kosovo for Deal on New Government (Balkan Insight)
• Nine EU Members release a new proposal for the reform of enlargement process (European Western Balkans)
• Kosovo declares Peter Handke 'persona non grata' (Deutsche Welle)

Humanitarian/Development:

• Kosovo Doctor’s Exhibition Documents Wartime Refugees’ Journey (Balkan Insight)
• International Mountain Day: We did not protect nature (KoSSev)

• Kurti and Mustafa meet, fail to reach agreement (media)
• Thaci calls Assembly's constitutive session on 24 December (media)
• Haxhiu: If LDK insists on President’s post, Kosovo will head for new elections (KP)
• Osmani: I believe on positive moves for coalition in the following days (RTK)
• Thaci to Vucic: Seeking compromise without recogntion, a provocation (RTK)
• Kosovo declares Nobel laureate Handke ‘persona non grata’ (media)
• Butel: Kosovo has not fulfilled all criteria for visa liberalisation (RTK)
• Rakic: We have not given up forming association of Serb municipalities (Koha/Zeri)
• Bamieh: EULEX sent all war crimes cases with Serb suspects to Serbia (RTK/Bota Sot)
• Albania lobbies for Kosovo joining Adriatic Charter (Koha Ditore)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, December 11, 2019

Albanian Language Media:

• No Kurti-Mustafa agreement, LVV leader to meet trade unions today (Express)
• “Kurti expected to meet Mustafa following return from Germany” (Telegrafi)
• Online poll: Majority of respondents optimistic of an LVV-LDK agreement (Telegrafi)
• Zyberaj: We’ll prosecute all Serbian officials responsible for crimes (media)
• Kosovo’s power plants, among the biggest polluters in Europe (RFE)
• Haxhiu: If LDK insists on President’s post, Kosovo will go for new elections (RTK)

Serbian Language Media:

• Vucic: We are ready for talks about compromise on Kosovo issue (RTS)
• Moscow will agree with UN SC discussion of division of Kosovo, if Serbia wants (N1)
• Borrell tells EU members to focus on Western Balkans (Beta, N1)
• Vucic congratulates Handke (RTS)
• Serbian List MPs verified their mandates in Kosovo Assembly (FoNet, Radio kontakt plus, RTK2)
• Djuric: Panicked fear of former KLA commanders (TV Most)
• Manitasevic ceased hunger strike due to health reasons (Radio KIM, Novosti)
• Marko Rosic's parents confirmed that neither they nor his lawyer have received the indictment (Danas, TV Most)
• The Swede who returned Nobel Prize she allegedly received, hadn't received it at all? (B92, Sputnik)

Opinion:

• Europe must lead on the climate crisis. The European Green Deal shows how (The Guardian)

International:

• Four Balkan States Boycott Nobel Ceremony to Protest Handke (Balkan Insight)
• Kosovo President Says 'Future Is Not Built By Denying Crimes,' Urges Serbia To Accept Blame (RFE)
• Russia Throws Wrench Into Efforts to Renew Serbia-Kosovo Talks (Bloomberg)

Humanitarian/Development:

• KCSS: Women excluded from security sector, inclusion remains a challenge (EO)
• Kosovo’s Jews in Race to Preserve Heritage (Balkan Insight)