Albanian Language Media:
• Kurti: Vucic is trying to create an atmosphere of fear with false accusations (RTK)
• Members of EULEX and KFOR stationed on buildings near Iber bridge (media)
• French Embassy against closure of Serbian post offices in the north: Unilateral and uncoordinated step (Reporteri)
• Haradinaj appeals to Serbs: Do not protest against free movement (RTK)
• Serbs gather at Iber Bridge, this is what they want from KFOR (Klan)
• Police on protest: Ended peacefully – we looked after safety of protesters until the end (Klan)
• Svecla says Iber Bridge will open: It is not a matter of dialogue at all (media)
• Minister Haxhiu visits woman who was injured by her husband in Fushe Kosove (media)
Serbian Language Media:
• A protest held in the northern part of Mitrovica: "On the bridge we defended survival, now we defend disappearance!" (KoSSev, media)
• The Serb protest ended, Svecla again drinking coffee in C'est la Vie caffe (KoSSev)
• Minister Starovic on the opening of the Ibar bridge: Potentially a major point of escalation (NMagazin, N1, TV Prva)
• Elshani: Educational and health institutions are a challenge for KP, but that does not mean that we will close them - politics will decide (KoSSev)
• Davenport: The closure of post offices and the proposals to open the bridge in Mitrovica must be resolved through dialogue (Kosovo Online)
UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, August 7, 2024
UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, August 6, 2024
Albanian Language Media:
• Stano: Another example of unilateral actions of Kurti administration (Reporteri)
• Kusari-Lila: QUINT ambassadors informed about opening of Iber Bridge (ekonomia)
• Presidency: Manner incident in Skopje was handled at Kurti-Mickoski conference, regrettable (media)
• Rohde: Unilateral and uncoordinated steps endanger Kosovo's application for EU membership (Klan)
• Another attempt of LVV to bring opposition into debate about Iber Bridge (Express)
• Haxhiu on wounded woman in Fushe Kosove: Negligence of justice institutions (RTK)
• EUROPOL: Person arrested in Kosovo for counterfeit money, employee of North Macedonian MIA (Kosovapress)
Serbian Language Media:
• The Kosovo police stopped a Serbian Post van with letters on Jarinje (N1, FoNet)
• Vucic met Konrad: The international community must react to ensure the safety of Serbs (Tanjug, media)
• Petkovic on the EU announcement; the opening of jobs for Serbs in Kosovo (RTS, Tanjug TV)
• Grenell: US has tools to prevent escalation, tough letters don't work against Kurti (Tanjug, Blic)
• Requests submitted for the abolition of custody of arrested Serbs from Kosovo Pomoravlje (RTV Puls, KiM radio)
• Elek: New jobs are an incentive for Serbs to stay and proof that Serbia is always with its people (Kosovo Online, TV Most)
• Selimi: The Kosovo Government is closing Post offices due to upcoming elections (Kosovo Online)
UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, August 5, 2024
Albanian Language Media:
• Kurti travels to Skopje, meets Prime Minister Mickoski (media)
• Mexhiti after meeting with Kurti: We discussed strengthening cooperation (Albanian Post)
• Milanovic: Allies' support for Kosovo has faded (media)
• LVV: Iber Bridge must be opened, there is no argument to remain closed (Koha)
• LVV: Consultations on election date will continue (Koha)
• Hoti: This mandate will end with complete failure in capital investments (RTK)
• Klinaku: There is no need for veterans to go to Serbia (media)
• Death of woman from Gracanica, a month of detention for her husband (Kallxo)
Serbian Language Media:
• The Kosovo Police entered all the Post Offices of Serbia in the North (KoSSev)
• Protest of hundreds of Serbs in Pasjane due to the recent arrest of five compatriots (KiM radio, medijacentar.info, Radio Mitrovica sever, media)
• What is controversial about the arrest of five Serbs from Kosovo Pomoravlje for alleged war crimes? (Danas, TV Most, Radio Mitrovica sever)
• Fatherland Movement: More than 50 Serbs in Pristina prisons for alleged war crimes (Beta, Danas)
• A few days after the Vjosa Osmani incident, Kurti with ministers in North Macedonia (Danas, KoSSev)
• Vacancy announcement for recruitment of new members of Kosovo police: Especially for the Serbian community (N1)
International:
• The target is training artificial intelligence on the data of Balkan citizens without notification (en.vijesti.me)
• Yugoslav Socialist Artist’s Retrospective Recalls Lost Era of Defiance and Hope (Balkan Insight)
UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, August 2, 2024
Albanian Language Media:
• Hovenier: We do not support any change of the status of the bridge (Klan)
• Government: Iber Bridge must be opened; it is at service of everyone and against no one (Klan)
• Rasic: All parties should avoid unilateral actions (RTK)
• Kurti: Government will not stop supporting Kosovo Police (media)
• Explosion in the yard of a house in the north, no one injured (Telegrafi)
• Political parties in North Macedonia react to airport incident with Kosovo President (media)
Serbian Language Media:
• Quint after meeting with Kurti: We informed him that we do not support any changes in the current status of the bridge on the Ibar (KoSSev)
• Kosovo President refuses security check at Skopje Airport (N1, media)
• The explosion took place last night in the yard of a private house in Ugljare village (KoSSev)
• Canaj: Both Pristina and Belgrade should focus on the lives of citizens (Kosovo Online)
• M.Z. from Donja Gusterica village died because of severe injuries inflicted by her husband (KiM radio, medijacentar.info, Kosovo Online, KoSSev)
• Vucic welcomed Siljanovska Davkova in the Prohor Pcinjski monastery (Kosovo Online, media)
International:
• TAV Macedonia: We categorically reject the allegations that our employee tried to take Vjosa Osmani's phone (slobodenpecat.mk)
UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, August 1, 2024
Albanian Language Media:
• Government: Financial support for "Trepca" depends on promise to resume increase in production (Koha)
• Gervalla appoints Nita Shala as Kosovo's ambassador to Italy (RTK)
• Members of KIA Supervisory Committee met director Petrit Ajeti (RTK)
• Kurti convenes Security Council, discuss fires and traffic safety (Koha)
• LVV MP asks Osmani: On what grounds did you not allow Konjufca to replace Kurti in the meeting? (Reporteri)
• Abdixhiku asks public actors to boycott RTK (Koha)
• FOL: Government has implemented 33% of 147 activities (media)
Serbian Language Media:
• On the remains of the Dolac monastery near Klina: Albanians erase the traces of the sanctuary (KiM radio, Politika)
• Petkovic: Unlawful ban of dinar in Kosovo, the state will continue with regular payments (Tanjug, RTS)
• Residents of central Kosovo half a year without the dinar: We struggle to function, this is a crime (Kosovo Online)
• North Mitrovica: In addition to the ban on dinars, residents also worried about the shortage of certain products (Kosovo Online)
• Residents of Strpce: Without the dinar, life hard for both the people and the merchants (Kosovo Online)
• A forest owned by Serbs burned down in Susica, they suspect arson (KoSSev, KiM radio, Radio Mitrovica sever)
• Borrell condemned the attacks by bots from Kosovo on Djordje Bojovic, Viola von Cramon's assistant (NMagazin, Beta)