Albanian Language Media:

• PDK wants Assembly to be dissolved: Time for Kosovo to go to elections (Telegrafi)
• Escobar: We need new elections in north; there can be even bigger crisis (media)
• LDK demands minister Gervalla’s resignation (media)
• Recica on Gervalla’s remarks: US, EU could ponder even harsher sanctions (EO)
• Osmani hosts UNDP representative in Kosovo (media)
• Nic: Kosovo is closer to open conflict than Bosnia (Radio Free Europe)
• Hungarian KFOR soldier who was wounded in north has leg amputated (media)
• Rexhepi on Kosovo-Bosnia relations: Stagnation comes from Serbian entity (RTK)

Serbian Language Media:

• Pasalic: Arrested Serbs and those protesting in Kosovo are exposed to terror (NMagazin, Vecernje Novosti, Beta, KiM radio)
• Dukagjin Gorani: Kurti's attitude unreasonable (KiM radio, medijacentar.info)
• Jozic family house burnt in the village of Veric near Istok (KiM radio, Radio Gorazdevac)
• Montenegro’s Milatovic with Vucic: Turning a new leaf in our relations (N1)
• British MPs distance themselves from Alicia Kearn's statement about arms smuggling in the SPC (SOC) (N1, KiM radio)

International:

• Serbia Ready to Use Planned Gas Terminal in Montenegro (Balkan Insight)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, July 7, 2023

Albanian Language Media:

• EU on Rama’s proposal: Any such initiative should be coordinated (Reporteri)
• Kurti meets new head of EULEX, discuss developments in Kosovo (media)
• Germany temporarily suspends cooperation with Kosovo (DW, media)
• Swiss MPs writes to EC: Stop measures against Kosovo, blame is more on Serbia (KSP)
• Haziri: LDK will propose a draft for the Association (media)
• Krasniqi: Serious situation due to crises produced by Kurti, we demand early elections (media)
• Davenport: Klan Kosova case, watched closely in Kosovo and internationally (media)
• Kearns receives support after Vucic threatens her with investigations (Telegrafi)
• Pristina Mayor accuses Minister of Finance of blocking projects for Pristina (Kallxo)

Serbian Language Media:

• Drecun: Situation in KiM is entering into a dramatic phase of development (RTS)
• Kosovo to lose up to 500 million euros if the measures last until the end of the year (KoSSev, RTK2)
• 'Announcements' of arrests and false lists scare Serbs in Kosovo (RFE)
• Kurti did not get the floor at US Independence Day celebration in Pristina (RTS, Tanjug)
• Kosovo customs confirms that ban on Serbian goods is still in force (Radio KIM)
• Berlin: Germany could send additional troops to reinforce KFOR forces in Kosovo (Kosovo Online, RTV)
• Vucic: I conveyed Serbian stances on situation in Kosovo (Kosovo Online)
• US Embassy calls for justice for Bytyqi brothers (N1)

Opinion:

• When will the elections take place in the north of Kosovo and will the Serbs turn out unconditionally? (Danas)

International:

• Joseph: Failure of the Serbia-Kosovo agreement would be a failure of Brussels and Washington (EWB)

Humanitarian/Development:

• Learning history and culture of Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian communities – means against discrimination (Koha)

Albanian Language Media:

• Albania signs 13 agreements with Kosovo; Rama expects meeting with Kurti (media)
• Sanctions, Germany reduces cooperation in security with KSF (Albanian Post)
• Tahiri: Other opposition parties said they’re ready to sign no-confidence motion (media)
• Kearns: Attacks against KFOR and reserves found by KP prove presence of illegal weapons (Kallxo)
• EULEX: Government didn't coordinate in designating organisations as terrorists (Koha)
• Kovacevski calls on Kurti and Vucic: Politicians are obliged to act as statesmen (Klan)
• Szunyog: Free and independent media are essential part of democratic society (media)

Serbian Language Media:

• Vucic: Underway silent ethnic cleansing of Serbs; we will demand an urgent session of the UN SC (Danas, RTS)
• Raska-Prizren Diocese warns of possible set up, says ‘continuation of March pogrom by different methods’ (KoSSev)
• Dacic: Accusations against SPC (SOC) part of a propaganda war; we asked Foreign Office for explanation (Kosovo Online, TV Pink, RTV)
• Djuric: Accusations against Serbian Orthodox Church deeply concerning (Tanjug)
• Vucic informs Erdogan about escalation of violence against Serbs in Kosovo (Kosovo Online)
• Germany terminates cooperation with Pristina in several areas (RTS, RFE, Blic)
• Doctor Todorovic sentenced to 10 months in prison “for the attack against Kosovo police officer” (Kosovo Online)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, July 5, 2023

Albanian Language Media:

• Kurti: It will be known within this week about claims on weapons in the churches (Koha)
• KFOR: No evidence of weapons in churches; Kosovo responsible for rule of law (Koha)
• Kurti: There is no solution because the agreement is not being implemented (Koha)
• Lajcak on meeting with Osmani (media)
• Szunyog: Measures to be lifted when Kosovo contributes to de-escalation of situation in the north (Reporteri)
• Kurti refuses to meet with Rama without a meeting of the governments (Koha)
• Citaku slams Kurti for refusing to meet Rama (media)
• Kurti appreciates the role that the UN has played in Kosovo (Klan)
• Jablanovic detained for illegal crossing of the border (Koha)
• Journalists Associations head express concern about Klan Kosova situation (media)

Serbian Language Media:

• Vucic to Lajcak: Serbian people in Kosovo exposed to worst torture in last 15 years (NMagazin, N1)
• Vucevic: Peter Stano makes irritating statements, empty shell of bureaucratic vocabulary (Beta, NMagazin, TV Pink)
• Dacic with the chargé d'affaires of the Great Britain Embassy regarding the statement of MP Kearns (Kosovo Online, Danas)
• KFOR: There is no evidence of the alleged smuggling of weapons into Orthodox churches (KiM radio, RTS)
• Cvijanovic: Even KFOR has to refute lies of “ferocious Albanian lobbyists in Britain” (RTRS, Kosovo Online)
• Serbian Minister of Defence: Serbian Orthodox Church target of Albanian lobbyists (N1, FoNet)
• Elek: We are threatened by humanitarian disaster, we can’t deliver medicines, let alone weapons (Novosti, Kosovo Online)
• Krasniqi: New directors have been appointed in the Municipality of Leposavic (Kim Radio)
• Sretena Bojovic denies that she took over the position of director in the Municipality of Leposavic (KiM radio)
• While the public’s attention is on three other northern municipalities, what is happening under the table in N.Mitrovica? (Part II, KoSSev)
• Muhaxheri compares Kurti’s approach to north with that of Milosevic on Kosovo in 1989 (KoSSev)
• Jablanovic refutes being at illegal crossing (Tanjug)
• KFOR Commander visits Leposavic today (Kosovo Online)

Opinion:

• Moving—bottom-up—beyond the crisis in Kosovo (socialeurope.eu)

International:

• First effects of EU sanctions sting Kosovo (Euractive)

Albanian Language Media:

• Osmani: Kosovo has demonstrated its will for de-escalation (media)
• Kurti: Allowing Basic Agreement to go without signatures, a big mistake (Koha)
• Kosovo leaders’ messages on July 4 (media)
• Kurti confirms meeting with Lajcak today (Nacionale)
• Albanian PM Rama to stay in Pristina and Belgrade this week (Kosovapress)
• Stoltenberg’s term as NATO SG extended until October 2024 (media)
• Krasniqi meets Rasic: Four Serbs become part of Lulzim Hetemi’s office (Albanian Post)

Serbian Language Media:

• Dacic on the Serbian List appeal: A political message demanding the reaction of the state of Serbia (Beta, Kontakt plus radio, B92)
• Ambassador Tolkach: Ukraine will not change stance on Kosovo (Tanjug)
• Lawyer files appeal for protection of legality to Supreme Court in case of Dalibor Spasic (Kosovo Online)
• Brnabic met PMs of Netherlands, Luxembourg (Tanjug, media)
• Petkovic: Rada Trajkovic attacking Serbs with same forcefulness as her boss Kurti (Kosovo Online)
• Rada Trajkovic: Kurti in a conflict with the EU and USA (KiM radio, N1)
• Brnabic, Michel discuss in Brussels stability in W. Balkans, EU integration (Tanjug)
• EC launches new Western Balkans investment package (FoNet, N1)
• Stano: Lajcak arrives to finally achieve de-escalation (Beta, Danas)