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UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, June 26, 2025

Albanian Language Media: • EU avoids answer to Trump’s claims about solving Kosovo-Serbia issue (AP) • Trump: National emergency with respect to the Western Balkans (media) • Bahtiri says he’ll leave Vetevendosje in the event of a coalition with PDK (media) • Murati: Post of deputy speaker for Serb community should not go to SL (media) • Kosovo falls by three positions on Global Peace Index 2025 (media) • Kurti hails agreement between Ukraine and CoE on Special Tribunal (media) • Testing on Iber Bridge done by a company contracted by the EU (Koha) • “Evidence: Arsenijevic drives the vehicle of a ‘Banjska terrorist’” (TeVe1) Serbian Language Media: • Andric Rakic: Stories about two new bridges please public in Kosovo (Kosovo Online) • Gogic: New bridges between South and North Mitrovica part of pre-election rhetoric (media) • SNF calls on Serbian mayors to raise Serbian flags on Saint Vitus Day (Radio KIM) • Arlov banned from entering Kosovo again (TV Most, media) • Milivojevic: Students are not terrorists, but Radoicic who roams Serbia with a paramilitary unit and provokes armed incidents (KoSSev) • Arrests across Serbia (N1, KoSSev) • Students announce the time and place of Belgrade protest (N1) International: • Parliament deadlock, critics question legality of Kosovo govt decisions (BIRN) • Obligation of businesses entering free energy market challenged at court (PI) • Court ruling brings risk of reversal of power market liberalization in Kosovo* (balkangreenenergynews.com) • Serbia's students plan major rally after issuing 'ultimatum' (DW)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, June 25, 2025

Albanian Language Media: 37th attempt to form new Kosovo Assembly fails (media) CSOs call for political agreement to break the Assembly deadlock (media) Haradinaj welcomes action by civil society representatives (Nacionale) Kurti: Winning party alone doesn’t constitute Assembly, form it together (Sinjali) Abdixhiku: Kurti is saying things without an ounce of intelligence (media) Pacolli says Vetevendosje has enough votes to form the new government (media) Svecla: Arsenijevic should answer before the law as soon as possible (media) Chamber asks Kurti to postpone move to free energy market (Sinjali) Chamber notifies about another decision cancelling ERO notification (media) AmCham calls on ERO to suspend free energy market measures (media) Rafuna: There are hundreds of lawsuits by businesses (AP) Durmishi says construction of two new bridges over Iber will start soon (RTV21) Sadiku: I support construction of bridges, but now is not the time (RFE) AJK condemns obstruction of the work of Radio Gorazdevac team (media) Serbian Language Media: Office for “KiM: One more Serb a member of Serbian MIA, expelled from Kosovo on the Kurti's order” (Radio Mitrovica sever) Andric Rakic: Serbs suppressed, events in world create blank space for Self-determination to do what they want (Kosovo Online) Serbian Democracy: Pressures and threats against a Serbian woman who they want to evict from Leposavic (Danas) For 26 years Verica Tomanovic is searching for her husband, renowned surgeon kidnapped in Pristina from his working place (Kosovo Online) Deportation of Serbian police officers: Arbitrary decisions, fear of ethnic motives, and silence of international representatives (Alternativna) Svecla terms Arsenijevic’s accusations ‘science fiction’ (KoSSev) Pec municipal workers assisted by Kosovo police remove graffiti in Gorazdevac, journalist told to go away (Radio Gorazdevac, Alternativna, media) NUNS: Verbal assault and identification of journalist in Gorazdevac concerning pressure on freedom of media (Kosovo Online) International: Kosovo to cap fuel profit margins (SeeNews) Eastern Kosovo town’s mountain resort becomes hotspot for illegal construction (PI) Donald Trump with Nato ‘all the way’ after questioning mutual defence pact (Financial Times)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, June 24, 2025

Albanian Language Media: • Kurti: Opposition extending our mandate; I assure you there is no agreement (EO) • Poll: 48.4 percent of people satisfied with work of Kurti government (Telegrafi) • ERO says it has not suspended decision on energy market liberalization (RFE) • ERO decision on a business moving to free energy market suspended (media) • NATO: Serbia to hold Banjska group, attackers of KFOR accountable (Express) • Kosovo: Selection of deportees from US in line with security criteria (RFE) • Krasniqi meets Norwegian special envoy for Western Balkans (media) Serbian Language Media: • Pantovic: The verdict against Ivan Mrkic the continuation of legal violence against Serbs in Kosovo (Kosovo Online) • The SL and Office for KiM: The sentence against Ivan Mrkic is ethnically motivated (KiM radio, Kosovo Online, Tanjug, Danas) • The law does not prevent early elections, but there is no political will: Kosovo in an institutional vacuum (Danas) • "Arsenijevic seems to be target of both Belgrade and Pristina" (Danas) • Serbian Defense Ministry says arms and military equipment exports suspended (N1, media) Opinion: • The Kosovo-Serbia dispute amid global turmoil: a defining test for the EU (NEE) International: • New exhibition by Kosovo art students draws inspiration from real life (PI) • North Macedonia, Kosovo planning 400 kV power interconnection (BGEN) • Kosovo’s trade gap expands 21.5% y/y in May (SeeNews) • Bears at gates: When the wild gets too close in Montenegro and Kosovo (BIRN) • “We Couldn’t Avoid Him”: Why Serbian journalists have spent 10 Years investigating one man (occrp.org)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, June 23, 2025

Albanian Language Media: Kosovo without a new Assembly even after 36 attempts (media) Haxhiu: Vetevendosje contribution alone not enough to emerge from crisis (RTK) Haradinaj: Kosovo is being punished; opposition needs to be proactive (Express) PDK will ask court to suspend decision on free energy market (Koha) Svecla says Arsenijevic will be stopped as soon as he enters Kosovo (media) Musliu: “‘Neighborhood Watch’, a dangerous masking of terrorist cells” (media) Court: Radoicic, chief organizer of Ivanovic’s assassination (Betimi per Drejtesi) Serbian Language Media: Vucic: We have to increase our defense capabilities; no justice in world today (Tanjug, N1, media) Kosovo acting Interior Minister: Arsenijevic will be arrested upon entry (KoSSev) Arsenijevic on possibility of returning in Kosovo: When right to fair trial is enabled to me (Radio KIM) Marsenic: New DSS leadership will be in Gazimestan on Vidovdan, and members will be in Belgrade at protest (Danas) Serbian List met OSCE Head in Kosovo: Dialogue only way to solve all issues; without security there is no true normalization (Radio Mitrovica sever) Peric: An Albanian with a KLA ID prevented us from returning memorial plaque (Kosovo Online, Blic, KiM radio, KoSSev, RTS) Eviction orders delivered in Leposavic, three families told to vacate apartments (KoSSev) International: My jazz story (Kosovo 2.0) Serbia appoints ex-paramilitary chief to head national theatre board (BIRN)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, June 20, 2025

Albanian Language Media: • Haradinaj warns Kurti: Enough is enough (media) • Poll: VV with 37.3% support, PDK 20.6, LDK 16.8, AAK 4.6%, and Nisma 2.1 (media) • Kryeziu: Elections and polls show citizens want political consensus (Nacionale) • Murati to Abdixhiku: From a state-forming to a vote-photographing party (media) • Buzhala: Court will announce decision on secret vote within a week (Klan) • Kurti, Malaj discuss further cooperation between Kosovo and Albania (media) • Hoti: The energy crisis is ruining Kosovo’s economy (media) • Kosovo marks World Refugee Day (EO) • All investigations and arrest warrants for Radoicic in Kosovo (RFE) • AJK joins organizations in condemning campaign against Flutura Kusari (media) Serbian Language Media: • Petkovic: Warrants and summons pressure on Serbs and a slap to face of international community (media) • Simic: I am going to hearing with head held high because we did not do anything illegal (Danas, Kosovo Online) • Twenty-six years since the murder of the four Simic brothers in Slivovo - justice still elusive (KiM radio, KoSSev) • Aleksandar Arsenijevic reacts to LVV published design of two bridges over Ibar River, one of which ends at foot of White Angel Monument dedicated to Serbian victims (social media) • Reaction of Serbian Democracy Leposavic representative to statement of Minister Rasic regarding houses in Lesak (social media) • Pantic Pilja: More and more countries which recognized Kosovo supporting Serbia (Kosovo Online) • MFA of Serbia on the World Day of Refugees and Displaced Persons: Expulsion and discrimination of Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija continue today (Kosovo Online) International: • Kosovo’s capital plans museum highlighting long struggle for peace (BIRN) • EU: Italy from Taormina relaunches enlargement and pushes for Balkans accession by 2030 (Agenzia Nova) • Kosovo launches 1 mln euro grant scheme for IT sector (SeeNews) • A series of events dedicated to free movement of people held the Western Balkan capitals (EWB)