Albanian Language Media:

• Kurti and Vucic to meet on June 26 in Brussels (RFE)
• Sources: No agreement in EU on full removal of measures (Koha)
• Rohde: Measures should be removed; it is in the hands of member states (EO)
• Borrell travels to Austria to advance EU – Western Balkans relations (media)
• Albanians and most Serbs support opening of Iber bridge (RTV21)
• Konjufca: Banjska, blow against cooperation, stability, security in region (media)

Serbian Language Media:

• Djuric: The dialogue in a coma; the new arrests of Serbs threw gloves in the face of the USA and the EU (RTS, media)
• Detention ordered for a Serb from Zvecan arrested yesterday on the Bistrica Bridge (RTS, Kosovo Online, media)
• Lawyer: I hope L.D. would be released, strange he got arrested after a year and so (Kosovo Online)
• Office for KiM: Arrest of Serb at Bistrica bridge is Kurti's attempt to provoke new crisis (media)
• Serbian List: If innocent Serbs are arrested, because of what Kurti deserved lifting of punitive measures (Kosovo Online, media)
• A decade since the creation of the Peace Park on the Ibar Bridge, new fears for Serbs (Kosovo Online)

International:

• Anti-corruption fight in Balkans sees progress, but also regression: report (BIRN)
• Growing diaspora vote becomes game-changer in Balkan elections (BIRN)

Albanian Language Media:

• Sources: Borrell recommends lifting of EU measures against Kosovo (RFE)
• Kurti: In 1998-99, Serbia used sexual violence as weapon of war in Kosovo (media)
• U.S. is committed to supporting victims and survivors of CRSV (media)
• Maqedonci: Kosovo determined to join NATO (media)
• Lajcak meets international community representatives in Kosovo (media)
• Citaku: PDK is ready for new elections (media)
• Bogujevci, Perestrello talk Kosovo’s membership in intl organisations (media)
• Kurti travelled to Hamburg following invitation by Sarrazin (Klan Kosova)

Serbian Language Media:

• Lajcak appreciates reports of international community in Kosovo about situation on ground
(Kosovo Online)
• Lajcak: My work continues; I am confident the CSM will be established, we have considered
red lines of both sides (Kosovo Online)
• Petkovic: Pristina misuses sexual violence victims for daily political purposes (Radio KIM)
• Odalovic: 567 Serbs are still listed as missing (Radio KIM)
• The strengthening of the right not a good signal for the region's membership in the EU,
and the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina (Kosovo Online, VoA)
• Darko Tanaskovic: Border changes in the Balkans as a distant possibility not impossible (N1,
NMagazin, Danas)
• UEFA fines Albanian Football Federation (Kosovo Online, media)

International:

• Crosetto: NATO intervention in Kosovo, pillar of peace and democracy in world (Nova)
• Unconnected: Kosovo’s health information system remains ‘forgotten promise’ (BIRN)

Albanian Language Media:

•    Kurti: I don’t think I should speculate over speculations (media)
•    Pacolli: We’ve heard from EU that lifting of measures has been foreseen (media)
•    Lajcak arrives in Pristina, scheduled to meet Osmani, Kurti and Bislimi (media)
•    Osmani: Unwavering commitment to lasting and just peace in Ukraine (media)
•    Kurti shares British reporter’s story who recorded attack on Jashari family (media)
•    Lajcak: We have a new momentum, which should not be missed (media)
•    UN Special Rapporteur publishes report from visit to Kosovo and Serbia (media)
•    Aliu gives details on construction of Pristina-Durres railway (media)
•    Kosovo to hand over to Serbia remains of three persons killed during war (RFE)
•    Prizren to host biggest cycling festival in Kosovo this weekend (media)
•    Klinaku: Kurti govt worked against veterans; we will protest (media)
•    KSC issues final warning to Nasim Haradinaj re. his media contacts (media)
•    UEFA initiates disciplinary proceedings against Serbia (media)

Serbian Language Media:

•    Vucic meets Jenca, discusses situation in Kosovo, necessity to establish CSM (Kosovo Online)
•    Djuric meets SRSG Ziadeh, says dialogue at stalemate because of Pristina (Kosovo Online, social media)
•    PM Vucevic with Lajcak: Time for Europe to give a clear signal (N1)
•    Lajcak says he discussed with Vucevic Belgrade-Pristina dialogue, EU relations with Serbia (RTS)
•    Dacic called on the organisers to cancel the "Mirdita, Dobar dan" festival (KiM radio)
•    A land parcel and field of Ilija Draskovic usurped in Kosovo Polje, one of usurpers threatened him with death (Radio KIM)
•    The remains of three Serbian civilians killed in 1999 handed over at Merdare (KiM radio)

Opinion:
•    Mutual recognition between Serbia and Kosovo: How do we get there? (IDN)
•    Serbia’s new intelligence chief will guard Vucic’s ‘captured’ state (BIRN)

International:

•    Reporter reflects “25 years after Kosovo’s secession from state of Serbia” (BBC)
•    UEFA opens disciplinary proceedings, prove over Serbian fact actions at Euro 2024 (RFE)
•    UEFA open disciplinary probe against Albania FA after Euro 2024 match (DPA International, MSN)

Albanian Language Media:

•    State Department: Long-term U.S. policy is mutual recognition (Express)
•    Rohde recalls 'Scholz’s clear statement during visits to Kosovo and Serbia’ (media)
•    Bajrami: Without mutual recognition, there can be no normalisation (media)
•    State Department comments on declaration of All-Serbian Assembly (media)
•    De Riu: Opening Iber bridge has "political and electoral purposes" (media)
•    Investigation of war crimes; Svecla, Haxhiu meet senior police officers (Kallxo)
•    Government ministers, MPs help clean shores of lake in north Kosovo (media)
•    Kurti: Walker is among Kosovo’s greatest friends (media)
•    Sources: “Shabani wanted BIA to act faster, stronger in Kosovo” (Express)
•    Arifi: “Elections in October; increase in public sector wages in summer” (media)

Serbian Language Media:

•    Petkovic says 150 Serb families to be evicted from their apartments in the north by Kosovo Verification Agency: "Ethnic cleansing continues" (Kosovo Online, RTS)
•    Petkovic: Shameful and anti-civilized decision of Pristina to ban goods from central Serbia (Tanjug)
•    People in the north, Strpce on Serbian goods import ban (Kosovo Online)
•    Gracanica residents: "We buy what we must" - dissatisfaction with quality and prices of available goods (Kosovo Online)
•    Shahini: Serbs affected the most with goods import ban, Albanians were buying those goods also (Kosovo Online)
•    Gogic: Ban on Serbian goods an illegal measure violating human rights (media)
•    Vucic meets with Sarrazin (Tanjug, Kosovo Online)
•    Stano on banning the import of Serbian goods: Refrain from unilateral steps (KiM radio)

Opinion:

•    Qirezi: “All-Serbian Assembly is a shameful return to the 1990s” (Koha)

International:

•    Kosovo ‘child of war’ wins competition to rebuild war-destroyed school in Ukraine (Prishtina Insight)
•    Suffering in silence: The horrors of giving birth in Kosovo state hospitals (BIRN)
•    People are convinced Tony Blair statue unveiled in Kosovo is Jason Donovan (The Independent)

Albanian Language Media:

•    Kurti: Kosovo grateful to international friends and allies (Telegrafi)
•    Bislimi: I have information Borrell's report recommends lifting of measures (media)
•    Bislimi: We don’t send to court drafts and articles without ownership (Express)
•    Haxhiu calls on internationals to pressure Serbia over arrest of Kosovars (Koha)
•    Osmani travels to Skopje to attend SEECP summit (media)
•    Walker: Kosovo is an exceptional success story (Albanian Post)
•    Latest NDI poll: Major drop by Vetevendosje, PDK is second (Paparaci)
•    EU: Serbia cannot join EU without normalising relations with Kosovo (RFE)
•    The Geopost publishes “second surveillance between Shabani and Rosic” (media)
•    The village in south of Kosovo where Albanians and Serbs help each other (RFE)
•    Kusari comments on amendments to the IMC draft law (media)

Serbian Language Media:

•    US Ambassador: Recognition of Kosovo will not be a condition for Serbia's entry into the EU, but normalisation (NMagazin, NIN)
•    "The deputy from Albania persistently tried to turn off the microphone of the deputies from Serbia": the Serbian delegation left the conference in Sarajevo (Danas,     FoNet, Klix.ba, Srna)
•    Milicevic: Embargo on goods from central Serbia and dinar issue affected small businesses and people (TV Most)
•    Lawyer: The defence attorneys are more than ready to prove Milun Milenkovic's innocence (TV Most)
•    Starovic: The issue of Kosovo’s status, when and if possible, Serbs and Albanians to discuss themselves directly (Kosovo Online)
•    Gasic meets with Jaqsylyqov in Astana (Tanjug)

Opinion:

•    Serwer: Mealy-mouthed won’t work, riot act will (peacefare.net)
   International:
•    Kosovo hails NATO contribution as it celebrates quarter century of liberation (Prishtina Insight)
•    Brothers indeed: Kosovo Albanians share memories of sheltering displaced families during the war (Prishtina Insight)
•    Between gender and profession (Kosovo 2.0)
•    Albania, Kosovo launch eased local border traffic regime (See News)
•    Easyjet to launch two routes to Pristina (See News)