Albanian Language Media: • Osmani meets Hovenier: EU’s measures are unfair and must be removed (media) • Stano: EU decides on lifting of measures, not government of Kosovo (media) • Government reacts: De-escalation took place, measures must be lifted (media) • Zulfaj: By not lifting measures against Kosovo, EU loses credibility (RTK) • British Parliament approved Alicia Kearns' motion for Kosovo (media) • Reporters without Borders latest report on Kosovo (media) • Kurti’s “digital army” on the frontline against reporters (RFE) • Bajqinovci: Serbia is training 400 extremists in Kopaonik (KTV) • Ministry changes article on marriage, doesn’t say when govt will vote on it (Koha) Serbian Language Media: • Parliament elects new Serbian Government (Tanjug) • Stano: Serbian Government expected to show commitment to EU (N1) • Stano: EU members, not Kosovo politicians, decide on abolition of punitive measures (Kosovo Online, KoSSev) • SRSG Ziadeh meets Bishop Teodosije in Gracanica (Kosovo Online, social media) • Kosovo Assembly on State Department report, opposition harshly criticized government over corruption (KoSSev, Radio KIM)

Albanian Language Media: • For successful vote, Germany asks Kosovo to take decisive step on Association (Koha) • Bakoyannis: No candidate has been asked for so many reforms (media) • Gervalla: Kosovo has met all conditions for membership in CoE (media) • Bislimi in Switzerland discusses CoE membership and dialogue (Reporteri) • Biserko on Kosovo at CoE: Positive for Serbs in Kosovo (media) • Kurti calls on SPO to charge criminals who committed genocide during war (media) • Kurti: With powerful unions, tendencies of oligarchic employers are repelled (media) Serbian Language Media: • Serbian Parliament hears PM-designate’s program, discusses new Government (N1, media) • Vucevic: Defending Serbia's sovereignty to be our biggest challenge (Tanjug) • Serbian officials slam Bakoyannis remarks on CoE and Kosovo (Tanjug, media, social media) • US disappointed with nomination of sanctioned individuals as ministers (VoA, N1) • Petkovic reacts to Kurti’s BBC interview, says the only one belonging to last century is Kurti (Kosovo Online) • KoSSev: Kosovo Union protest demanding social dialogue and wages increase, Kurti with lessons from history and praises of system (BETA) International Media: • Bakoyannis: Everyone was aware of my special ties with the Serbian people (European Western Balkans) • Boys Preferred: Sex-Selective Abortion Still Happening in the Balkans (Balkan Insight)

Albanian Language Media: • Scholz call with Kurti, support and highlights importance of dialogue (media) • Osmani thanks MEPs: You were true champions of our people (media) • Kurti meets Italian MPs, thanks them for Italy’s support for Kosovo (media) • EU: Lack of political will, reason why implementation of agreement failed (RTK) • EU sees next meeting on dinar as last chance for solution (RFE) • Guerot: Concrete steps on Association if Kosovo wants to join CoE (media) Serbian Language Media: • Vucic: Belgrade faces diplomatic battles (N1, Tanjug, media) • Vucic speaks with Prince Albert II of Monaco (Tanjug) • Stano: Lajcak did not fail (N1, FoNet) • Dacic: Serbia to get new government over the holidays (N1, BETA) • Serbian List says Radomirovic is “informant of Kosovo police, betrays Serbs who are then arrested and persecuted” (Kosovo Online) • One more person arrested in relation to attack on Serbs in Bosniak Mahala (KoSSev) • Surveillance cameras installed on a crossroad near Technical School in Mitrovica North (Radio KIM)

Albanian Language Media: • Kusari-Lila: Association draft to court, not a condition before vote at Committee of Ministers (EO) • Knaus shares part of Kurt's speech in Berlin: He said he cannot impose QUINT draft statute on Serbs (Albanian Post) • Martens: Berlin, Paris intend to postpone vote for CoE membership (Albanian Post) • Haxhiu: CoE membership paves way for justice for war crimes (media) • Kryeziu reacts to SL: Cameras in north are in service of public security (media) • “Nearly 900,000 citizens registered so far, Serbs in north remain hesitant” (Klan) • Tahiri: Kurti to explain why Serbia remains unpunished even after Banjska (EO) Serbian Language Media: • Two Serbs beaten up in Bosniak mahala, Mitrovica North, three Albanians arrested (Tanjug, N1, media) • Three Albanians arrested, two more identified and one looked for, in relation to attack against Serb young man in Mitrovica North (KoSSev, media) • Lawyer: Bosniak arrested at Brnjak crossing point over alleged war crimes sent to one-month detention (Kosovo Online) • Kosovo police started installing security cameras in Mitrovica North, Serbian List demands their removal (KoSSev, media) • Will holders of “second class“ travel documents, who cannot obtain Kosovo ones, finally get good news? (KoSSev) • Vucic: Good discussion with Ashton about Serbia's future, place in world (Tanjug) • Pahor preparing new proposal for Pristina-Belgrade dialogue (N1) • Serbia to receive €1.6 billion from EU’s Growth Plan for Western Balkans (N1, RTS) • Kurti surprised with State Department’s report on human rights in Kosovo (N1, BETA)

Albanian Language Media:

• Lajcak: Presented a compromise paper in effort to bridge differences (media)
• Bislimi: Serbia wants illegal structures to be funded until Association formed (RFE)
• Kurti thanks German MPs for supporting Kosovo (media)
• Citaku: Result of general elections will be surprising (media)
• Rasic comments on Serbian army’s drills near border with Kosovo (media)
• Ruecker: Kosovo needs to establish the Associati