• Kurti and Mustafa meet, fail to reach agreement (media) • Thaci calls Assembly's constitutive session on 24 December (media) • Haxhiu: If LDK insists on President’s post, Kosovo will head for new elections (KP) • Osmani: I believe on positive moves for coalition in the following days (RTK) • Thaci to Vucic: Seeking compromise without recogntion, a provocation (RTK) • Kosovo declares Nobel laureate Handke ‘persona non grata’ (media) • Butel: Kosovo has not fulfilled all criteria for visa liberalisation (RTK) • Rakic: We have not given up forming association of Serb municipalities (Koha/Zeri) • Bamieh: EULEX sent all war crimes cases with Serb suspects to Serbia (RTK/Bota Sot) • Albania lobbies for Kosovo joining Adriatic Charter (Koha Ditore)

• Thaci says Assembly session will be called as required by law (Bota Sot) • Veseli: Delays in forming new institutions not positive for Kosovo (Telegrafi) • Hoti: Agreement to be reached in following days, no reason for failure (media) • In Berlin, Osmani meets U.S. special envoy Grenell (media) • Delays in formation of Assembly cannot set in motion Constitutional Court (Koha) • Thaci: Internationals’ silence enabled Vucic to deny the massacre (media) • Pacolli: EU to demand Serbia hand over war criminals (media) • Borell: An agreement in Pristina - Belgrade dialogue, my priority (RTK) • Svecla on meeting with Djuric: It was a working meeting (media)

• LDK and LVV optimistic on reaching coalition agreement within this week (media) • LVV denies having agreed to endorse LDK candidate for president of Kosovo (Zeri) • Kusari-Lila: Lack of coalition agreement, disappointment for citizens (Klan Kosova) • Rugova: LVV-LDK agreement to include president's post (Epoka e Re) • UK, Swiss embassies condemn statements of Serbian officials (media) • Osmani: Kosovo commemorates victims of genocide, EU rewards Serbia (media) • PDK leader Veseli to be interviewed today in The Hague (media)

• Kurti: If there is no agreement with LDK, we will go to new elections (RTK) • VV: Either government with LDK or we go to new elections (Koha) • Murati: Drop the conditions, let us start working (Klan Kosova) • Haradinaj: New elections not the right move (Zeri) • UNMIK chief expresses concern over attempts to distort painful events (media) • U.S. Embassy reacts to Vucic’s statements on Recak (media) • LVV's Svecla slammed for sitting next to Djuric in Tirana conference (media) • Visa liberalisation for Kosovo not on the agenda (Koha)

• Kurti reaches out to Mustafa in an effort to form new government (Telegrafi) • Thaci accuses EU of double standards (media) • Kurti reacts to Vucic’s denial of Recak massacre (Koha) • Kosovo MFA condemns Serbia’s ‘inhumane’ approach to war crimes (media) • EU: No place for negating events in Recak (Balkan Insight)