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UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, December 30

• COVID – 19: 139 new cases, 9 deaths (media) • Kosovo Assembly adopts 2021 budget (media) • Daka: These elections will be more costly (Koha) • Kurti on new elections: People have already decided who to vote for (media) • LDK meets today, to decide on its candidate for Prime Minister (media) • Acting PDK leader Enver Hoxhaj to visit Albania today (media) • “Biden will push for Association and Mini-Schengen in the dialogue” (Telegrafi) • Pacolli’s advisor: We need to know exact date when vaccines will arrive (media) • Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio to visit Kosovo today (media) • Haradinaj: KSF Search and rescue unit to be deployed to Croatia (media) • In Muslim region of Serbia, Ottoman-era mosques perish (Balkan Insight)

UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, December 29

• COVID – 19: 181 new cases, 8 deaths (media) • Government doesn’t want Serbia’s help for anti-COVID vaccine (Lajmi) • Serb doctors in the north refused vaccines from Serbia (Kallxo) • Vaccines with a political dose in the north (Radio Free Europe) • Kosovo Assembly adopts 2021 draft budget in first reading (media) • PDK MP: We voted in favor of 2021 budget, although it’s not the best (media) • “Kurti 2 government in February, we will have majority in parliament” (media) • Hoti: LDK candidates for PM not chosen in TV studios (media) • Osmani aims President, Assembly President posts from coalition with VV (Koha) • LDK, VV clash over diaspora voters in CEC meeting (Express) • COVID – 19 vaccination kicks off in Central, Eastern Europe (Balkan Insight) • Engel: Kosovo, Albania will always have a special place in my heart (media)

UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, December 28

COVID – 19: 215 new cases, 4 deaths (media) No Kosovo-Serbia agreement without status discussion, Lajcak tells Klan Kosova Assembly expected to vote on 2021 budget today (media) PDK to support 2021 budget bill (media) PDK: Governments allowed Serbia undermining Kosovo's sovereignty (media) Kosovo Government: No information vaccines entered by legal channels (media) Haradinaj-Stublla: Serbia threatening Kosovo’s national security (media) Selimi calls on judiciary to investigate vaccine delivery in the north (media) Reshitaj questions vaccines being used in the north (media) Kurti: Vetevendosje aims to have over 65 seats after new elections (Koha) Police stop Serbian official from entering Kosovo (media) Kosovo: Top politicians sent to Hague to face war charges (Balkan Insight) 2020 showed that Kosovo’s social contract needs rethinking (Prishtina Insight)

UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, December 24

• COVID-19: 271 new cases, 12 deaths (media) • Travel restrictions tightened (Prishtina Insight) • Osmani concludes consultations with political parties (media) • Hoti: LDK is a favourite to win upcoming elections (media) • Mustafa: We will not make pre-election coalition with any of the parties (RTK) • Enver Hoxhaj announced PDK's candidate for prime minister (media) • Hoxhaj: PDK is competing for the first place (T7/RTK) • Poll projects Vetevendosje winning elections (Klan) • Challenging path in formation of new Assembly, Government (Koha) • Tahiri urges political parties to adopt 2021 budget (media) • Von Cramon: Bringing down Kurti-led government was a mistake (DW) • Petkovic attacks von Cramon for saying Serbia will recognise Kosovo (Express) • Dacic: Osmani ten times worse than Citaku (Koha) • GLPS survey indicates half of Kosovo citizens ready to migrate (media)

UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, December 23

• COVID - 19: 137 new cases, ten deaths (media) • Acting President Osmani meets four parties, meetings to continue today (media) • Constitutional Court preparing to publish decision (Koha) • Kurti: No delays in declaring new elections (media) • Sources: Enver Hoxhaj, PDK’s candidate for Prime Minister (Telegrafi) • Vetevendosje’s Konjufca doesn’t rule out coalition with PDK (media) • PDK responds to Konjufca: Too early to talk (media) • Krasniqi: PDK heads to elections to win (media) • Limaj: We don’t rule out a coalition with the PDK (RTK) • Pacolli: AKR has no red lines for other parties (Lajmi) • EU: This Assembly must approve the budget (media) • Assembly expected to be dissolved (Koha) • Orlando: Kosovo to have free and fair elections (media) • Gashi: Vetevendosje will come first in the elections, PDK second (media) • Hasani: New Assembly cannot abolish the Specialist Chambers (media) • Police arrest Serb war crimes suspect in Peja (media) • OSCE condemns assault on reporter in Prishtina (media) • Online media in Balkans ‘need regulation, not censorship’ (Balkan Insight)