Albanian Language Media: Kurti: Increase in public sector wages in January next year (media) Kurti: I don’t form Associations; I offered to write draft but was rejected (media) Lajcak: Optimistic about some progress, will continue in coming weeks (RTK) Hacker: I guarantee Germany is working to help Kosovo join CoE (media) Osmani to Erdogan: Kosovo committed to strengthening partnership (media) Haradinaj: Kurti is a political amateur, he has made many mistakes (EO) KFOR Strategic Force leaves Kosovo (media) Serbian Language Media: Vucevic not optimist that any major conclusion will be reached at UNSC session tomorrow (Kosovo Online, Tanjug, Radio Mitrovica sever, media) SL with Michalcova and Hupin: The most urgent to prevent institutional violence and form the CSM (Radio Mitrovica sever, Kosovo Online) Lajcak optimist on progress of ''some key issues'' in Belgrade-Pristina dialogue (Kosovo Online) Gacevic: Formation of A/CSM essential as first step in protecting collective rights of Serbs (Danas, Kosovo Online) Radosavljevic: Time to ask how useful EULEX is considering how expensive it is (Euronews Serbia, Kosovo Online) Trial of four Serbs in relation to alleged involvement in attack on Municipal Election Commission Office continues (Kosovo Online) House arrest measure of four young Serbs arrested in Mitrovica North last month revoked (KoSSev) Bottcher: Position of German Embassy and ambassador is well known - “Deva was a known Nazi collaborator” (Kosovo Online) Questions about Serbia’s strategic course: How EC assesses Belgrade’s path to EU (N1, Hina) International: Relentless hoax bomb threats leave police in Balkans frustrated (Balkan Insight)

Albanian Language Media: • Konjufca on Association: EU cannot take away our right to propose a draft (media) • Progress Report expected to request urgent implementation of agreements (RFE) • Koopman commends Kosovo on Reforms Agenda for Growth Plan (media) • “Vucic hoping Trump elected in order to start talks on Kosovo partition” (media) • Zeka: Govt didn’t give the right importance to capital investments (Kosovapress) • RTK: Dinar continues to circulate illegally in the northern municipalities • Tahiri: Vetevendosje is not serious, fortunately we are on verge of elections (Klan) • Videnovic: Serbian politicians must apologize for pain caused in Kosovo (media) Serbian Language Media: • CSOs appeal for international actions on police abuse of non-majority communities (Alternativna, Kosovo Online, social media) • CSOs call upon mayor Atiq to resign (KoSSev, media, social media) • ‘How can I trust the police?’: Milos Subotic’s struggle for justice after alleged assault (KoSSev) • Fatherland: Beating of Subotic only tip of an iceberg (KoSSev, media) • One more Serb claim Kosovo police treated him ‘inappropriately’ (Alternativna, social media) • Andric Rakic: Level of public security in north of Kosovo decreased (RTS, Kosovo Online) • Ugljanin: ID cards listing ‘Mitrovica’ violate law and agreements on north-south division (KoSSev) • Bomb thrown in a yard of Serbian woman, member of Kosovo police in Mali Zvecan (KoSSev, media) • Djuric: Deva's restored house illuminated ‘in colors of the Third Reich flag’ (Kosovo Online, social media) • Kosovo Assembly did not adopt any of proposed laws that Government planned for 2024 (KoSSev, Koha) International: • Kosovo counts cost and benefit of prisoner deal with Denmark (BIRN)

Albanian Language Media: NATO notes that consensus of 32 members required on Kosovo (RTV21) Kurti: Austria and Kosovo built a strong partnership over the decades (RTK) Kosovo’s Election Commission joins A-WEB Executive Committee (media) Agency denies reports about removal of “Mitrovica North” from IDs (media) Hoxhaj: Kurti accepted Association, biggest damage in last 30 years (RTV21) Albanians in Serbia to protest against passivization of addresses (Albanian Post) Serbian Language Media: Head of UN: Situation in north of Kosovo tense, possible escalation (RTS, Blic, Danas) Ursula von der Leyen in two-day visit to Serbia (RTS, media) Arsenijevic calls on Kosovo police to open case against Missini café for ‘spreading ethnic intolerance’ (social media) Mesarovic: Serbia has significant economic cooperation with BRICS member states (Tanjug) Barac: EU lost ability to moderate dialogue, negotiations became ‘absurd’ (Kosovo Online) In Pristina, graffiti written against Fadil Geci, along with derogatory words for Serbs (KoSSev, Kallxo) International: Tena Prelec: People in the region need to feel like a part of Europe, rather than as a “super-periphery” (EWB)

Albanian Language Media: • Kurti repeats the demands toward Serbia in the dialogue (RTK) • Barduani meets Kurti: Dialogue only way to compose ongoing issues (media) • Reuten: Punitive measures against Kosovo must be removed (media) • Kurti on terrorist attack in Turkey: Let’s work together to combat terrorism (media) • Haradinaj condemns terrorist attack in Ankara; “attack against peace” (media) • Osmani: Courts in Kosovo set a very good example of rule of law (RTK) • UNMIK: In north of Kosovo, still potential for escalation (Albanian Post) • Hovenier calls for fair, open, and inclusive selection process in call of KPC (media) • Citaku: Investigations against Kajtazi and Mehmetaj, orchestrated scandal (media) • First two projects of Kosovo Prosperity Fund signed in Mitrovica North (RTK) • Murati meets head of IMF Mission for Kosovo (media) • Police arrest person, find visit cards, shirts with nationalistic signs (media) • United Nations Day (Kosovapress) • Kearns: Vucic continues to seek closer ties to Putin (media) Serbian Language Media: • Meeting of Serbian delegation with Lajcak ended in Brussels, uncertainty about "tripartite" meeting (Beta, N1) • KoSSev: North Mitrovica omitted from ID cards, technical mistake or intention? • Students: This is beginning of our non-violent and democratic struggle for rights of Serbs in Kosovo (Kosovo Online, media, social media) • Lawyer: Prosecution opened proceeding against President of Football Association in Kosovo over jerseys (Kosovo Online) • Subaric informs British Ambassador about appropriation of municipal land, seeks his support (Radio KIM) • Vulin: Belgrade will not impose sanctions on Moscow (N1) • Less: In long term, border changes are prerequisite for stabilization of Balkans (Kosovo Online) • Vucic recalled Serbian Ambassador to the UN Nemanja Stevanovic (NMagazin, Beta, Danas) • Vucic and Tusk meeting: Strengthening bilateral relations, EU integration, situations in Kosovo (Kontakt plus radio, media) Opinion: • NIN on story which is kept quiet about: Serbian women from Kosovo suffer sexual harassment (NIN, Blic) International: • Serbian, Kosovar negotiators meet with EU envoy to jump start stalled talks (RFE) • Ethnic tensions dominate life in divided Kosovan city, decades after war (Reuters) • Lost in Translation: Open Balkan ID initiative yet to take off (BIRN)

Albanian Language Media: EC adopts reforms agenda of Kosovo and four countries of region (RFE) Kurti: The Berlin Process was crowned successfully (Gazeta Express) Krasniqi: Iber bridge should be opened, no reason for it to remain closed (media) Aliu: I have no official information from the Special Prosecution (media) Stano: Focus of the meeting, urgent need to implement the agreement (media) Svecla hails police operation that seized over 10 kilos of cocaine (media) Haradinaj meets Kasanof, asks for speedy NATO membership for Kosovo (media) Slovakia to close its liaison office in Kosovo by December 31 this year (RTK) Serbian Language Media: Donald Tusk and Kyriakos Mitsotakis in Belgrade today (RTS) A new round of dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina tomorrow in Brussels (RTS, media) Lajcak, Lorkowski on WB integration to EU in context of normalization of relations between Belgrade and Pristina (Tanjug, Blic) Silent protest in North Mitrovica: University students march with mouths taped (KoSSev, media) First hearing in throwing tear gas in Kosovo Assembly case, Konjufca and others were not present (Kosovo Online) ARTICLE 19 launches news fact-checking campaign (N1, KoSSev) EC approves reform agendas of Serbia, other W Balkan partners (Tanjug) EP Rapporteur Picula insists on Serbia meeting EU accession criteria (N1, Hina) International: IMF keeps Kosovo's 2024 GDP growth projection at 3.8% (Seenews) Biserko: Vucic has given up on Kosovo (Albanian Daily News) 'Feces Everywhere': Balkan lake must clean up or lose UNESCO status (RFE) Balkan criminals planned murders using encrypted phones from Canadian startup Sky Global (OCCRP)