Albanian Language Media:

• COVID-19: 296 new cases, five deaths (media)
• PM Hoti's Office issues statement on Government's work plan draft (media)
• Kosovo Government not to apply to join international organisations until 2023 (Koha)
• Kosovo authorities allowed to visit Maqastena in Prokuplje, Serbia (Koha)
• Kosovo and Serbia representatives clash at CEFTA's virtual meeting (media)
• Kurti writes to KSC judge to support Selimi's bail request (Telegrafi)

Serbian Language Media:

• 52 new cases of Covid-19 registered in Serbian areas in Kosovo (KoSSev)
• Vucic met Serbs from Kosovo, EMS and EPS directors – conclusions in two, three days (KoSSev)
• Serbia won’t impose sanctions on Moscow, says Vucic; Resolution 1244 the basis for every agreement, says Lavrov (Beta, N1)
• German State Secretary: EU and Germany supported process which resulted in KOSTT independence (KoSSev)
• Jeremic: “Albanian finger” on a power supply switch in northern Kosovo as of yesterday (Danas)
• Covic: I do not believe Albright would be in negotiations, Serwer completely irrelevant (KoSSev)

Opinion:

• Who gave electricity to Pristina (Nova S)

International:

• Balkan States Race to Secure COVID-19 Vaccine Supplies (Balkan Insight)
• Kosovo Politicians Divided Over How to Choose Next President (Balkan Insight)
• Europe set to approve COVID-19 vaccine in Christmas week (Reuters)
• Mini-Schengen, Regional Economic Area and Common Regional Market: What is what? (EWB)

Humanitarian/Development:

• Last Despatches: News Team Killed the Day After Kosovo War Ended (Balkan Insight)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, December 15, 2020

Albanian Language Media:

• No ease of lockdown measures for Christmas and New Year in Kosovo (media)
• Hoti: Mustafa is dealing with the meeting on president issue (media)
• Haradinaj’s initial appearance at Special Court rescheduled to 18 December (media)
• Ambassador Jan Braathu nominated OSCE chief of the mission in Serbia (Koha)
• Kosnett and Tan support local war crime prosecution (media)
• Osmani to travel for a three day visit to Albania (media)

Serbian Language Media:

• In Serbian communities in Kosovo 56 new cases and one death (Kontakt plus radio)
• Brnabic: I'm against curfew, celebrate at home; Vucic: vaccination soon (N1, BETA)
• Russian FM arrives in Belgrade; talks to include bilateral relations, economy (N1)
• Serbia's Foreign Minister: Close relations with Russia (N1)
• Serwer to N1: Vucic won't recognise Kosovo, we'll have to wait for one who will (N1)
• Trajkovic: Albright unlike Serwer recognizes opportunity for better US-Serbia relations (Kosovo-online)
• Energy agreement vaguely implanted (Danas)
• Mihajlovic: Opposition is spreading falsehoods and scaring Serbs in Kosovo (Kosovo-online)
• Serbian List: Incomprehensible and unacceptable need to denigrate one’s own state (Radio Mitrovica sever)

Opinion:

• The EU and Kosovo a decade on (opendemocracy.net)

International:

• Kosovo Truth Commission’s Future in Doubt After Thaci’s Indictment (Balkan Insight)

Albanian Language Media:

• COVID - 19: 353 new cases, 9 deaths (media)
• Hoti: If solution on President isn’t found, Kosovo goes to new elections (media)
• Nagavci: President post to be discussed after new elections (media)
• KOSTT to operate independently; PM Hoti calls it “a joint success” (media)
• Haradinaj: Decision to form Army was not easy, but most important (media)
• Pacolli: Army was a gift from the U.S. for our people (media)
• The shocking results of a study in Serbia (Klan Kosova)

Serbian Language Media:

• 24 new cases of Covid-19, four deaths registered in Serbian areas in Kosovo (KoSSev)
• Botsan-Kharchenko: There will be more pressure (Vecernje Novosti, B92)
• Lavrov to visit Belgrade on Tuesday (Tanjug, TV Most)
• The public does not see how much NATO and Serbia work together (cfsp.rs)
• "When it comes to Serbia and Kosovo, the status quo is unsustainable" (Tanjug, B92, RFE)
• Abbot Janjic: Kosovo grotesque picture of what international community allegedly wanted to achieve 21 years ago (KoSSev)
• Brnabic: Vaccines by end of year (B92)
• Serbian Orthodox Church warns of false accounts under its name (BETA, N1)
• Mladjan Djordjevic once again urged Vucic to say to whom they handed over energy system in northern Kosovo (Direktno.rs)
• KOSTT started working as a regulatory area within the Kosovo-Albania bloc; no explanation to the citizens of the North (KoSSev)

Opinion:

• What Will a Joe Biden Presidency Mean for the Balkans? (nationalinterest.org)

International:

• Transparency concerns over Serbia’s growing military outlay (Balkan Insight)
• Kosovo’s ‘The Flying Circus’ wins debut prize in Cottbus Film Festival (Exit.al)

Humanitarian/Development:

• Reading through the pandemic (Prishtina Insight)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, December 11, 2020

Albanian Language Media:

• COVID-19: 590 new cases, 13 deaths (media)
• Hoti: Parties to agree on either the president or election date (Telegrafi)
• Mustafa doesn't view elections as way to resolve president's issue (Koha)
• Foundation set up to support Thaci's legal defence in The Hague (media)
• KFOR Commander expresses readiness to continue cooperation with KSF (Koha)
• Austrian MEP Mandl urges EU to grant Kosovo visa liberalisation (Klan)
• Residents of Krusha demand Tasic be retried for war crimes (media)

Serbian Language Media:

• In Serbian areas in Kosovo 66 new cases of Covid-19, one death (Kontakt plus radio)
• Visoki Decani one of 12 most threatened heritages sites, shortlisted for the 7 most endangered (KoSSev)
• Father Sava: 200.000 Serbs have not returned to Kosovo (Radio KIM)
• “Everyone has right to truth” (Radio KIM)
• The hearing on the case of Ivanovic's murder postponed indefinitely (Kontakt plus radio, KoSSev)
• Radojevic took oath: It is now up to me to live up to expectations (TV Most)
• Pristina Mayor: "The biggest problem of Serbs is that when they turn 18, they leave" (RTK2)
• Montgomery: Fixed stances on multiethnic societies in Kosovo and B&H will bring no solution (Kosovo-online)

International:

• COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories Grip West Balkans, Survey Reveals (Balkan Insight)

Humanitarian/Development:

• Reidentifying the dead (Prishtina Insight)
• Homeless in their homes (Kosovo 2.0)

Albanian Language Media:

• COVID-19: 562 new cases, 13 deaths (media)
• On Human Rights Day, SRSG Zahir Tanin Calls for Placing Human Rights at the Core of the COVID-19 Response and Recovery (media)
• Kosovo-Serbia dialogue continues in Brussels (Express)
• Lajcak tells what is expected to be discussed today at Prishtina-Belgrade meeting (media)
• Kosovo-Serbia Dialogue, no narrowing of differences (Express)
• Hoti: We do not go to the dialogue for anyone’s interests but those of the state (media)
• Von Cramon urges visa liberalization for Kosovo (media)
• “We are not blackmailing, but we do not vote anyone except for Haradinaj” (Telegrafi)
• Serwer slams media close to Vucic for referring Albanians with a racist slur (Express)
• “Engagement of former EULEX prosecutors, fades Special Court’s credibility” (RTK)
• Hoti: Human rights to be dignifiedly represented (RTK)
• Abbott with Mother Theresa’s saying on International Human Rights Day (media)

Serbian Language Media:

• 59 newly infected in Serb areas in Kosovo (KiM radio)
• Petkovic: Dialogue is going in the right direction - in the direction of a compromise solution (KoSSev)
• Petkovic met Lajcak in Brussels (Kosovo-online)
• It is clear now - EU enlargement has been slowed down (Jutarnji List, B92)
• Schieb: Serbia's progress in rule of law modest, no new chapter (N1)
• Displaced in Z. Potok and Leposavic: We are second-class citizens; we only want our own roof over our heads (KoSSev)
• Brnabic: Serbia may introduce mandatory PCR test for people coming from abroad (N1)
• Normalization at zero point or step by step process? (KiM radio, 'Dogovor' TV Show)
• "What genocide in Kosovo?” (B92, Prva TV, Tanjug)
• Gara: Remains of at least 6 persons were discovered at Muslim cemetery in North Mitrovica (Kontakt plus radio)
• EP's Bilcík: Serbia standing still, but EU has to be more active too (N1)

International:

• 12 European heritage sites shortlisted for the 7 Most Endangered Programme 2021 (europanostra.org)
• China Increasing its Footprint in Balkan Media, Study Concludes (Balkan Insight)
• Southeast Europe is Pioneering a Global ‘Whistleblower Revolution’ (Balkan Insight)
• Grenell talks Serbia-Kosovo: people should stop "lingering on the past" (The Tartan)

Humanitarian/Development:

• Surviving a Pandemic (UNDP Eurasia)
• Serbian Health Minister: Return to normal life not possible before spring (B92)