Albanian Language Media: • Kurti pays homage at graves of Bytyqi brothers (media) • Kurti to attend World Economic Forum in Davos (media) • Assembly to hold session this week, opposition highlights energy tariffs (media) • KESCO: Energy Regulatory Office's decision in not clear (media) • Kosovo's Ombudsperson: ERO’s decision on energy tariffs, discriminatory (media) • SPO sends witness summons to General Inspector of AKI (Telegrafi) • Kosovo’s Justice Minister clashes with Serbian State Secretary of Justice (Telegrafi) • Montenegro to join the Open Balkan initiative? (RTK) • COVID-19: 1 new case (media) Serbian Language Media: • Bilcik: There is no alternative to dialogue because we have nothing else (Kosovo Online) • Ambassador Hill's interview with Politika: No third way - East or West (media) • ''The EU and the US very dissatisfied with Kurti's refusal to renew the Dialogue with Belgrade'' (Beta, NMagazin, Danas) • Vucic, Hill meeting: All efforts should be directed towards the dialogue under the EU auspices (RTS) • Petkovic in a two-day visit to Kosovo (KiM radio, Kosovo Online) • ''Property of Decani, hotels in Brezovica, and Brezovica Ski Centre go into the Sovereign Wealth Fund'' (KiM radio) • Scholz in Serbia on June 10 (KiM radio, DW, N1) • Vucic to speak with Putin about gas supplies on Wednesday or Thursday (Tanjug, media) International: • Berisha claims he’s back in charge of Albania’s Democratic Party (BIRN) • Albanian PM supports new community for non-EU countries (Euractiv) • US would defend Taiwan if attacked by China, says Joe Biden (The Guardian) Humanitarian/Development: • Krasniqi: 14 municipalities to benefit from the €8 million performance grant (EO)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, May 20, 2022 Albanian Language Media: • Quint: Fully implement lawful registration of Decani Monastery land (media) • EU Head of Office: Swiftly and fully implement court’s decision (media) • “Implementation of court decision, precondition to CoE and NATO integration” (media) • Decan Mayor on pressure from Quint: Albin Kurti should respond (Periskopi) • Senator Murphy: Unbreakable bond between America and Kosovo (Reporteri) • Prime Minister Kurti meets Congresswoman Maloney (media) • President Osmani: Our objective is NATO membership (media) • Independent Unions call on PM to act and prevent general strike (Telegrafi) • Hoxhaj: The Balkans can be the second front of a hybrid war (media) • COVID-19: 14 new cases (media) Serbian Language Media: • Quint and EU appeal to Kosovo institutions to return the property to the Visoki Decani monastery (Kontakt plus radio, RTK2) • SOC: International institutions to enable rule of law and respect for religious freedoms in Kosovo (Kosovo-online) • Petkovic: International community to exert pressure on Pristina to return land to Visoki Decani (Kosovo-online) • Selakovic in Turin: Pristina’s request attempt to misuse Council of Europe (N1) • Vucic: All crucial issues discussed with Michel (Tanjug) • Michel: We want to deepen cooperation with Serbia, accelerate EU accession (Tanjug) • Petkovic on Kurti’s latest statements about Community of Serb-majroity Municipalities (Radio KIM) • Platform for trust-building in Kosovo presented (Radio KIM) • Fresh bomb threats sent to 134 schools in Serbia (Radio KIM, N1) • DefMin says Serbia committed to respect for territorial integrity (N1) • Petkovic and Rakic: Displaced families from Pec received support to return (TV Most) • US to provide grants worth 19.5 mln dollars to Serbia (Tanjug) • Serbia has complied with EU sanctions on Belarus over the war in Ukraine (EWB) International: • Competition or Complement? Calls to restart Berlin Process revive Balkan dilemma (BIRN) • ‘Return us Home’: Exhibition seeks return of artefacts held in Serbia (BIRN) • Wave of False Bomb Threats in Region Again Hits Kosovo (Balkan Insight)

Albanian Language Media: • President Osmani talks about challenges in energy and environmental sectors (Kallxo) • Kurti’s cabinet reacts to Rama’s statement on Open Balkans (Paparaci) • Finland expresses support for Kosovo's CoE membership (media) • Hovenier: Kosovo is a sovereign, independent, democratic state (media) • Prime Minister Kurti meets USAID Administrator Power (ATV) • Prime Minister Kurti meets Congressman Keating (media) • PDK requests dismissal of the ERO board (Kallxo) • Haradinaj: Demarcation will be closed, with corrections in certain sectors (media) • President Osmani commemorates 23rd anniversary of Dubrava massacre (Koha) • Assembly of Kosovo passes draft law on KSF Military Police (media) • No classes in Kosovo on Friday, teachers on strike (Koha) • COVID-19: 12 new cases (media) Serbian Language Media: • Serbia, North Macedonia PMs welcome church reconciliation (N1) • HLC, Robelli on verdicts to Haradinaj and Gucati (Radio KIM, Kosovo-online) • Odalovic: Serbia searches for mass graves, Pristina unresponsive to Belgrade’s requests (Radio KIM) • Vucic to meet Michel on Thursday (Tanjug) • Scholz to visit Belgrade in mid-June (Tanjug) • Petkovic: Kurti has no right to say what Serbs want (Kosovo-online) • Petkovic: Pristina impedes dialogue (Radio KIM) • General Hodges: Serbia unsure of Western support (N1) • Ambassador Hovenier: US support integration of Kosovo into Euro-Atlantic structures, including Council of Europe (KoSSev) International: • Germany's Scholz wants Western Balkans in EU (Reuters) • EU Must Correct ‘Big Mistakes’ on Western Balkans – Manuel Sarrazin (Balkan Insight) • Montenegro President Leaves Open Review of Border Agreement with Kosovo (BIRN) • Serbian Police Source Fake Bomb Threats to Seven Countries (Balkan Insight) • Serbia’s Olive Branch: Breakthrough or Trap for Macedonia’s Church? (BIRN) Humanitarian/Development: • Kosovo bus crashes in Austria, passengers sustained no life-threatening injuries (media)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, May 18, 2022 Albanian Language Media: • Gucati, Haradinaj sentenced to four and a half years in prison each (media) • Djukanovic: Montenegro, Kosovo have excellent neighbourly relations (media) • In Washington D.C., Kurti meets National Security Advisor, Sullivan (media) • Prime Minister Kurti met in Washington DC Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin (media) • Hodges: U.S., EU must have clear strategy for Kosovo (Radio Free Europe) • COVID-19: 16 new cases (media) Serbian Language Media: • Vucic meets SOC Patriarch (RTS) • Kosovo not on Friday’s agenda of CoE (Radio KIM) • US Ambassador: Open Balkan could activate region’s economic potential (N1) • Heads of Serbian, North Macedonia churches to serve reconciliation liturgy (N1) • Czech EU Presidency to focus on Western Balkans (N1) • Brnabic: UN SC resolution does not apply only in Serbia's case (Tanjug, media) • Vucic receives Letter of Credence from new Ukrainian ambassador (RTS) • Montenegrin Liberal Party (CLS) and Association of Kosovo Montenegrins on Djukanovic's visit to Kosovo (KoSSev, Kontakt plus radio) • Hovenier: Mitrovica is one of the best manifestations of Kosovo's future (Kosovo Online) • Mihajlovic on verdicts to Gucati and Haradinaj (N1) • More bomb threats, schools evacuated in Belgrade and Nis (N1) • Petkovic met Hill: Pristina to give up obstruction; formation of Community of Serbian Municipalities necessary (Kosovo Online) Opinion: • Mixed messages from Belgrade: Is the EU narrative shifting? (EWB) International: • Kosovo veterans jailed for war crimes witness intimidation (RFI) • WB2EU conference on the politics of enlargement in France in Paris on 19 and 20 May (EWB) Humanitarian/Development: • Reactions to reports that non-majority children were excluded from book event (media) • Ghost schools, ghetto schools and segregated shifts (Kosovo 2.0)

Albanian Language Media: • Kurti: Kosovo among first to side with democratic world in sanctions (media) • ESI: 47 again? Russia out, Kosovo in (media) • Aliu: Important meeting of ministers from region in Prishtina tomorrow (Indeksonline) • Vetevendosje MP sentenced to prison time for abuse of power (media) • Caplan: I fear Kosovo and Serbia are heading toward a frozen conflict (Express) • COVID-19: four new cases (media) Serbian Language Media: • Borrell hopes for a meeting between Vucic and Kurti before summer (KiM radio, Tanjug) • Kosovo Minister of Culture announced Kosovo's application to UNESCO for 2023 (Danas) • Serbian PM Brnabic: Pristina's CoE membership bid comes amid greatest violations of Serb rights (Tanjug) • Selakovic: Szijjarto called for offering Serbia EU membership immediately (Tanjug, media) • Dacic with Bakoyannis on Kosovo's accession to the Council of Europe (KiM radio) • Vulin: Serbia being targeted by ‘special warfare’ (Tanjug) International: • EU Foreign Affairs Council discusses the impacts of war in Ukraine on the Western Balkans (EWB) Humanitarian/Development: • Serbian-Albanian friendship website launched (KiM radio) • Record increase of prices in Kosovo (Telegrafi) • More Illegal Migrants Caught at EU Borders, as Detections at Western Balkan Route Spike Up By 130% (schengenvisainfo.com)