Albanian Language Media: • Lajcak for dialogue: Current political calendar is a chance for normalisation (Koha) • Rama praises Vucic: He gave a clear signal of peace in relation to Kosovo (Koha) • Trade unionists meet LDK’s Abdixhiku (media) • Municipalities give the government until September 5 to execute the salaries (media) • COVID-19: 67 positive cases no deaths (media) Serbian Language Media: • Summit of leaders of the Open Balkans: Regional cooperation important in the food and energy supply crisis (NMagazin, Beta) • Szijarto: If it depended on Hungary, the entire Western Balkans would already be in the EU (FoNet, Beta) • Brnabic to visit Kosovo on Monday (NMagazin, Beta) • Petkovic: EU representatives either do not know or deliberately selectively read the agreements (RTS) • Vucic and Pahor on Saturday in Belgrade (Danas) • EU spokeswoman: Ashton will not join Lajcak's team, they are in regular contact (Kosovo Online) • Bus from Subotica returned by police from the Bela Zemlja crossing (KiM radio, Kontakt plus radio) Opinion: • Lazarevic: Kurti's video messages will not persuade Serbs to re-register, but Belgrade's decisions, if any (Danas, KoSSev) International: • Open Balkan plus Hungary, Turkey meet to discuss cooperation in Belgrade (euractive.com)

Albanian Language Media: • Prime Minister Kurti invites citizens to convert licence plates to RKS (media) • Osmani met with Deputy Prime Minister of Netherlands Wopke Hoekstra (media) • The EU asks Kosovo to give "sufficient time" for licence plates (RFE Albanian) • Kurti on the energy crisis: We are doing our best, but the situation is dire (Koha) • BSPK: There is no withdrawal from strike, Government's intervention is illegal (media) • LDK: The decision to freeze wages is illegal and undemocratic (media) • PDK: Today we are in energy and educational darkness (media) • Banners against re-registration with RKS licence plates appear again in north (Koha) • COVID-19: One death and 64 new cases (media) Serbian Language Media: • Kurti calls Kosovo Serbs to replace license plates (N1) • Petkovic: Kurti continues to threaten with abolition of KM plates (NMagazin, Beta) • Vucic discusses Kosovo dialogue with UK, US officials (N1) • Ashton could join Lajcak's team for dialogue – portal (Tanjug, Kosovo Online) • Arsenijevic: With a Serbian ID of the cities in Kosovo, still impossible to cross General Jankovic (KoSSev) • US Ambassador says Serbia should turn West (N1, FoNet, NIN, KiM radio) International: • Kosovo pushes ahead with car licensing rule resisted by Serbs (Reuters) • Kosovo's car licensing rule resisted by ethnic Serbs takes effect (Aljazeera) • Serbia under growing pressure from West to allow EuroPride to go ahead (intellinews.com) • The Open Balkan Wine Fair opens today in Belgrade (serbianmonitor.com)

Albanian Language Media: • Osmani hosted by the president of the Czech Senate (media) • Specialist Chambers judge Mihael Bolander resigns (media) • Thousands participate in the protest after the rape of the 11-year-old (media) • Director for Treatment of Prisoners and Juveniles resigns (media) • The saga of the Serbs towards the Kosovo documents (RFE, media) • COVID-19: 191 new cases and two deaths (media) Serbian Language Media: • Vucic met US Congressman Turner (Tanjug) • Belgrade, Zagreb, Pristina trade blame over missing persons (N1) • Disclaimers on ID cards placed at administrative crossings towards Kosovo (RTS) • KFOR: We are closely monitoring the situation, we are staying at Jarinje and Brnjak (RTS, Kosovo Online) • Lajcak: Two months to find a solution for the vehicle plates, some ideas proposed (RTS, Tanjug) • Mihajlovic: Lavrov makes Serbia's position even more difficult (NMagazin, Beta) • Nine Covid-19 cases in Serbian areas (KiM radio)

Albanian Language Media: • President Osmani travels for an official visit to the Czech Republic (media) • Gervalla participating at Bled Forum (Telegrafi) • Kurti: Archives in Belgrade should open so truth about our loved ones can be found out (Klan) • Osmani, Kurti, Hovenier pay tribute to the disappeared (media) • UNMIK in support of the families of persons missing from the war in Kosovo (Klan) • EULEX: In one year, three missing persons were identified, hundreds over years (Koha) • PSD calls the agreement on ID cards "legalization of parallel structures" (Koha) • Government to establish a Professional Committee after rape of the 11-year-old, (Klan) • COVID-19: 91 new cases (media) Serbian Language Media: • SRSG Ziadeh: Pristina and Belgrade cooperation crucial for progress on the issue of missing persons (Kontakt plus radio) • "It turns out to be a miracle that pain united us" (KiM radio, KoSSev) • Vucic: The problem with the vehicle plates will not be solved before September (NMagazin, Beta) • State Department: The agreement between Serbia and Kosovo is a step towards the normalization of relations (Beta, N1, VoA) • Serbian FM Selakovic met Cuban FM Parrilla (Tanjug) • Serbian Parliament Speaker Vladimir Orlic met Ambassador Hill (Tanjug, media) • Citizens on the ID agreement: Not supported by the majority “because it is not beneficial to both sides” (KoSSev) • Hrnjaz: Serbia did not recognize Kosovo with the new agreement, it does not mean it has not been moving towards it politically for 10 years (KoSSev) International: • Germany's Scholz Backs EU Expansion To Include Western Balkans, As 'Center Of Europe Is Moving Eastwards' (RFE) Humanitarian/Development: • New Book Tells Stories of Kosovo’s Child Casualties of War (Balkan Insight) • Greece increases electricity exports to neighboring Balkan countries (balkangreenenergynews.com)

Albanian Language Media: • Kurti invites opposition leaders to meet on Tuesday (media) • Haradinaj responds positively to Kurti's invitation for a meeting (media) • Murati: Government will proceed with salary law, educational staff should start work (media) • Kurti: Kosovo has provided shelter for 1798 Afghans (RTK) • Lavrov: The West is ready to recognize independence declared illegally (media) • Tahiri: Why isn’t the text of the agreement on ID cards being published? (Klan) • COVID-19: 89 new cases (media) Serbian Language Media: • Vucic: Agreement with Pristina makes it easier, not harder, for everyone (media) • Opposition on the BG and PR IDs agreement (media) • Stoltenberg welcomes the agreement on IDs: NATO and KFOR will remain vigilant (Radio Mitrovica sever) • Michel, Varhelyi, Rohde, Rama welcomed the agreement reached on IDs (media, Twitter) • OPEN initiative seeks the C/ASM to be formed (Kosovo Online, KoSSev) • NGO Aktiv: 51 incidents recorder in the first six months of 2022 (KoSSev) Opinion: • In the history of international law, it never happened that a state recognizes another through license plates or identity cards (Danas, N1) • Unbalanced Vucic-Rama Double Act Benefits Only Serbia (Balkan Insight) International: • Afghans adrift on US 'lily pad' in Kosovo (DW) • ‘Everyone loved each other’: the rise of Yugonostalgia (The Guardian)