Albanian Language Media:
Saga of failures to constitute the new Kosovo Assembly continues (RFE)
Haxhiu doesn’t rule out local and parliamentary elections at same time (media)
Citaku: Kosovo blocked because of Vetevendosje’s political stubbornness (media)
Limaj: We need a political agreement that will bring new institutions (Nacionale)
Haradinaj: We are ready for elections (Klan Kosova)
Osmani: KSF is our pride; alliance with US is our anchor (media)
Serbian Language Media:
Systematic (non)compliance with the Law on the Use of Languages: Ministry of Environment, Spatial Planning and Infrastructure (social media)
Reduction in the number of councilors in the north of Kosovo: Discrepancy between the census and voter lists (Kontakt plus radio, KiM radio)
Simic: We have always called for peace, while those who set fire to international vehicles are now in the Kosovo government (Kosovo Online)
Sentic: We treat all human rights violations issues with high attention (Kosovo Online, media)
Petkovic: Killers of Stolic family from Obilic have not been brought to justice 22 years later (media, social media)
International:
Kosovo Police arrest 22 in major anti-drug operation (PI)
Hidden graves: Kosovo’s race against clock to find wartime missing (PI)
UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, June 4, 2025
UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, June 3, 2025
Albanian Language Media:
• Osmani summons parties tomorrow, will set date for local elections (Express)
• Besa Shahini to run for mayor of Pristina in next local elections (Koha)
• Kos: Kosovo's path to EU goes through dialogue, not unilateral steps (Koha)
• Police operation in three regions against drugs trafficking, cybercrimes (media)
• UN Kosovo Team reacts: We cooperate strongly with the government (Express)
• US citizen who trained and fought for ISIS sentenced to 10 years in prison (media)
Serbian Language Media:
• KFOR: Kosovo Security Force on joint exercise (N1)
• Kosovo Serbs again sent a request to the EU, USA and Quint due to institutional violence of Pristina (Danas)
• Milenkovic about the intention of the Leposavic Mayor to evict 17 families (Danas)
• Vucic, Djuric met Troccaz (Kosovo Online, Tanjug, media)
• Kovac: We are pointing out to PACE representatives that Kosovo must not be rewarded for unfulfilled obligations (Tanjug, RTV, Tanjug)
• Annalena Baerbock elected President of the UN General Assembly (Beta, AFP, KiM radio, KoSSev)
• The University of Belgrade among the best in the latest Global 2000 list (N1)
UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, June 2, 2025
Albanian Language Media:
Osmani: Peace is the beginning of transformation (media)
Parties fail again to find solution to deadlock in the Assembly (media)
Haxhiu: Opposition with irrational rancor, calls me divisive (Reporteri)
Citaku: Economy and people at risk, Assembly is being blocked (media)
Rafuna: More protests if govt doesn’t act on energy market liberalization (media)
Bislimi meeting Sorensen in Brussels (Koha)
Growth of remittances, €402.93 million in first quarter of 2025 (media)
Hehir: Specialist Court was created for Serbia’s interests (media)
Osmani awards Presidential Medal to mothers of Srebrenica (media)
Serbian Language Media:
Petkovic and Sorensen to meet tomorrow in Brussels (Kosovo Online)
Vranjes: Konakovic in Pristina misused BiH symbols - a new slap in the face of political Sarajevo to Serbia (Kosovo Online)
Local municipal authorities in Leposavic ordered Serbian families to vacate their homes in Lesak (RTS)
Employees of Sports Hall in Leposavic still without access to it, trainings halted (Kosovo Online)
Minister calls rebuttal ‘a propaganda’ (Radio kontakt plus, Radio KIM)
Proaktiv warns of “systematic dismantling” of University of Pristina (KoSSev, KiM radio)
Minister says up to 30,000 at all protests (N1)
Vucevic: Why demand elections now, not earlier (N1, BETA)
Students’ speech read out at protests across Serbia, demand early elections (N1)
UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, May 30, 2025
Albanian Language Media:
• PDK submits to ERO its opposition to decision on open energy market (Dukagjini)
• Company founded by Dalipi in process of licensing to supply electricity (media)
• Ombdusperson calls for suspension of decision to increase energy prices (media)
• Osmani: Kosovo not only contributes but ready to join NATO (media)
• Bislimi: VV does not need partners now (Dukagjini)
• Police with operational plan to prevent sexual harassment in north (RFE)
• Svecla on two-year anniversary of attacks against Police and KFOR (media)
• KFOR Italian Carabinieri continue to support communities in Mitrovica (media)
• Podujeva mayor Bulliqi confirmed as candidate for another mandate (media)
• Ombudsperson writes regarding suspension of child allowance payments (media)
Serbian Language Media:
• Ombudsman: Irregularities in process of granting child allowance, Serbian children discriminated against (Kosovo Online, KiM radio)
• Barbano carefully following events related to break-in into Serbian Orthodox Church in Rakitnica (Kosovo Online)
• Serbian Democracy urges international organizations to prevent evictions of 15 Serbian families in Lesak (social media)
• Serbian List delegation visited refugees and displaced persons pressured to vacate apartments in Leposavic (Tanjug)
• Todic criticizes international community over approach to issues affecting Serbs in Kosovo (Tanjug, RTV, media)
• Students of Serbian universities with colleagues in Mitrovica North (Alternativna, KoSSev, KiM radio)
• Joint declaration of the region adopted: Creative economy of the Western Balkans in the focus of the Berlin process (Kosovo Online, FB)
• Protests across Serbia on June 1 (N1)
International:
• Kosovo businesses block capital entrances demanding delay of electricity market liberalisation (PI)
• Kosovo risks paying high price for weeks-long stalemate: Experts (BIRN)
• Kosovo agrees to accept compensation claims from KLA war crime victims (BIRN)
UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, May 29, 2025
Albanian Language Media:
• Kurti on today’s protest by businesses: Time of barricades is over (media)
• Krasniqi slams Kurti for comparing protest with barricades in north (Express)
• Another failed attempt to form the new Assembly of Kosovo (media)
• Kurti: Increased Serbian military presence, reaction to Defender Europe 25 (media)
• “The economy, unemployment, living costs, among main concerns” (media)
• Westerlund about the situation in the north: It is complicated (media)
• “Berlin supports Kosovo’s CoE membership, but action needed now” (Reporteri)
• Ombudsman: Decisions without formation of institutions, with irreparable consequences (media)
Serbian Language Media:
• Vucic: Development of good relations with US one of Serbia's foreign policy priorities (Tanjug)
• Leposavic municipality seeks from displaced persons to move out of apartments constructed and financed by Government of Serbia (Danas, RTS)
• Serbian Democracy: Collective centers in Leposavic neither closed nor empty, we demand accountability of those deceiving public (Alternativna)
• Aleksandar Arsenijevic comments on CEC’s decision on number of local councillors (social media)
• Kosovo Ministry bans work on a premise in church yard in Perkovac village, near Zubin Potok (Kosovo Online, media)
• Kosovo police in front of Serbian Post Office premises in Priluzje, Kostic: A show of force on Ascension Day (Kosovo Online)
• Registration of births and deaths resumes in Mitrovica North after months-long blockade (KoSSev)
• Elshani: No ban on Serbian IDs for towns in Kosovo from June 1 (KoSSev)
• Milos Vucevic appointed to new position (N1)
Opinion:
• "A bait for Pristina to change its attitude towards the Serbs": Can EU sanctions against Kosovo bear fruit? (Danas)
• Kosovo: A parliamentary telenovela in Hitchcock style (NMagazin, N1, DW, KNA)
International:
• Alleged off-the-book payments and conflict of interest at Kosovo’s Agriculture Ministry (PI)