• Office of President: Postponing elections only after assessment by security bodies (media) • Interior Minister Svecla says incidents in the north are terror attacks (RFE) • Two blasts in north on Wednesday; police say they’re shock bombs (media) • EU condemns attacks on CEC offices in north of Kosovo (Kallxo) • COMKFOR Ristuccia: We don’t tolerate violence (RTK) • EULEX steps up patrol in north; “trying to reassure local population” (Express) • Bislimi meets chief foreign policy advisor to EC President (media) • Krasniqi: PDK will certainly win the next national elections (media) • Association of Journalists presents the 2022 Annual Journalism Awards (media) • Kosovo Albanian’s Death in Serbian Prison Raises Concerns (BIRN) • Faik Rexhepi Recalls Iconic Photo of Resistance (Prishtina Insight) • FIFA fines Serbia for Kosovo flag in dressing room (Reuters)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, December 7, 2022 Albanian Language Media: • U.S.: Conditions not in place at this time for elections in the north (media) • Government: Waiting for assessment of situation in north for further steps (media) • EULEX says protests should be peaceful; calls for calm and restraint (media) • Rohde: Full support for peaceful demonstrations; zero tolerance for violence (media) • Guerot: Acts of intimidation very concerning; dialogue only way forward (media) • Kusari-Lila: Milosevic’s Serbia still functions with Vucic at the helm (Klan) • Gjoshi: Postponing elections is Vucic’s request; shouldn’t be accepted (Nacionale) • Abazi: Wouldn’t be the end of the world to postpone elections in north (T7) • Bislimi to travel to Brussels tomorrow; to meet Varhelyi and Jourova (Express) • Ceku: Kosovo will apply for UNESCO membership next year (media) Serbian Language Media: • Vucic: New French-German proposal no improvement for us (Tanjug) • Vucevic: Situation in Kosovo flammable (Kosovo Online, media) • Vulovic says Pristina officials “acted arrogantly and unprofessionally” (Kosovo Online) • Trajkovic: They came with automatic weapons, detonations were heard (Kosovo Online) • After incidents in north, Belgrade and Pristina hurl accusations against one another (KoSSev) • New manifestation of an old crisis and lack of understanding (Radio KIM) • Wigemark concerned with incidents in north, says any protests should be peaceful (Kosovo Online) • EU, W. Balkan mobile operators sign declaration on reduction of roaming charges (Tanjug) • Doderovic: Dismayed by appointment of Radulovic, we support Serbian List (Kosovo Online) • EULEX monitors the situation in the north of Kosovo; Kurti increases the presence of the police (Beta, NMagazin, KoSSev) Opinion: • Failure to Protect Murdered 35-year-old Was Result of Catalogue of Errors (BIRN) • Cooper: Belgrade and Pristina enjoy media attention (VoA, Beta, KiM radio) International: • Kosovo PM Announces More Police Presence in North Following Attacks (BIRN) • Explosions, Attacks in North Put Elections in Question (Prishtina Insight) • Leaders sign the Declaration of the EU-Western Balkans Summit in Tirana (EWB) • Kosovo Activist Threatened After Criticising Football Player’s ‘Thuggish’ Gestures (Balkan Insight)

• Osmani: Criminal gangs trying to destabilise Kosovo (media) • Kurti: Kosovo government doesn’t bargain or tolerate criminal gangs (media) • Svecla: Election officials and police were attacked with shock bombs (media) • Police: No one injured during incidents; election offices demolished (media) • Explosions heard in Serb majority areas in Kosovo, no injuries reported (Reuters) • Citaku about developments in north: Govt keeping us in the dark (media) • Haradinaj to Kurti: Do you want to endanger the north at any cost? (media) • Radoniqi: Elections cannot be held by force (media) • PDK candidate for Zubin Potok says he received threat in Serbian (T7) • EU drafts new proposal for Kosovo-Serbia ties - senior EU diplomat (Reuters) • US Special Envoy Escobar to visit Kosovo on Monday (Kosovapress) • State Department Counselor to visit Kosovo this week, sources say (Nacionale) • “One sentence” is blocking resolution of fate of forcibly disappeared (AP) • European Commission admits mistakenly asking Montenegro and North Macedonia to issue visas to Kosovo (Prishtina Insight) • Heritage heist: Kosovo, Serbia fight over ‘loaned’ museum exhibits (BIRN) • Solidarity Stories #6: Serb Monastery Shelters Kosovo Albanians (BIRN) • Love divided: Kosovar-Serbian Couple Struggle to Build a Home in Disapproving Society (Prishtina Insight)

Albanian Language Media: • Borrell: Pristina, Belgrade received updated text of French-German plan (RFE) • Kurti meets Lajcak, discuss “course and dynamization of dialogue” (media) • Lajcak after meeting Kurti: We have no time to lose (Nacionale) • Sources: Lajcak calls for postponement of elections in north (Express) • Bislimi: Accordance to keep content of French-German plan confidential (Kallxo) • Osmani in Tirana: Vucic is the continuation of the 90s mentality that led to war (Klan) • EC admits it mistakenly asked countries in region to introduce visas to Kosovo (RFE) • CDHRF reacts to death of Kosovar with Norwegian citizenship in Serbian prison (media) Serbian Language Media: • Sirens in Zubin Potok; Petkovic: ''Kurti sent the police with long pipes''; Jaksic on Twitter (N1, RTS, media) • Vucic: Tirana summit good opportunity to protect Serbian interests (Tanjug) • Vucic meets with Macron in Tirana (Tanjug) • Dacic: Pristina lost large number of votes in UN (Danas) • Odalovic: Pristina does not want to cooperate on resolving missing persons cases (Kosovo Online) • Trajkovic on joining Kurti's government: The goal to find out what is being discussed (KoSSev, N1) • Radulovic appointed adviser to Nenad Rasic (KiM radio) • Gracanica municipality undertakes measures to protect new cemetery from desecration (KoSSev) • Sentence to Nedeljkovic reduced to six months (Kosovo Online) • Commission for the Protection of Competition: Proceedings initiated against MTS D.O.O (Kontakt plus radio) • Serbian opposition MPs in show of support for N1, Nova S (KoSSev, N1) International: • Rama: EU accession not an ‘exam you can cheat on’, more work needed (euractive.com) • Kosovo Files Second Complaint to FIFA in Serbia Football Row (BIRN)

• EU to ask Kosovo and Serbia for concrete progress on final agreement (Koha) • McKee: U.S. partnership with Kosovo, stronger than ever (KTV) • Kurti meets USAID Assistant Administrator McKee (media) • Kurti to meet Lajcak in Pristina today (media) • Lajcak meets Vucic in Belgrade (media) • Michel: Progress is being made on visa liberalisation for Kosovo (media) • Host Albania has high hopes for EU-Western Balkans summit (AP) • Serbian President Will Attend EU-Balkan Summit in Tirana (BIRN) • Bajrami reacts to EU asking Montenegro and North Macedonia to introduce visas for Kosovo (media) • Bislimi to report on dialogue and French-German plan today (media) • Police, CEC municipal officials will go to offices in north today (Koha) • Albanian chased by several masked persons in north of Kosovo (media) • Dejan Jankovic could become head of Kosovo Police (Albanian Post)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, December 5, 2022 Albanian Language Media: • Kurti: Eliminating violence is an obligation; victims must be protected (KP) • Osmani asks for USAID support in fight against gender based violence (KP) • PDK’s Krasniqi: Vetting must happen; unclear why it is running late (EO) • Civil society: Judiciary inefficient; reforms can have results only through vetting (KP) • Baraliu: Election reform must happen as soon as possible (RTK) • Hoti: Government turned Serbia into main trade partner in the region (media) • Arsenijevic confirms withdrawal of candidacy for Mitrovica North mayor (media) • CEC confirms: Serb candidate for elections in north withdrew on Dec 2 (Gazeta Blic) Serbian Language Media: • Vucic to Lajcak: It is necessary to implement agreement on ZSO (RTS) • Brnabic accuses Kurti of violating Brussels Agreement (N1) • Serbs who left Kosovo institutions start receiving salary payments from Belgrade (KoSSev) • Dacic meets Iranian diplomacy head, expresses gratitude for stance on Kosovo (RTS) • The candidates of an extraordinary elections for mayors of municipalities in the north of Kosovo (RTS) • Detention of Djokovic extended for two more months (Radio KIM)

• Kurti: Agreement with Serbia will not be easy (media) • Four policemen suspended for case of murder of pregnant woman (RTK) • Kurti: Institutional mobilization against domestic violence (media) • Bicycle march in Pristina, to oppose violence against women and girls (KP) • Osmani and Szunyog, coordinate for EU - Western Balkans Summit (media) • Rama is confident that Vucic will attend summit in Tirana (Koha) • Lajcak to meet today with the Serbian president in Belgrade (media) • Serbia’s president won’t attend summit over spat with Kosovo (euronews) • Jevtic: Serbs in south could withdraw from institutions too (media) • Minister reacts to claims that budget focused on VV-led municipalities (media) • Krasniqi: PDK becomes a full member of ALDE (RTK) • Kosovo veteran leaders appeal for release from all charges (BIRN) • Kosovo football federation complains to FIFA about “racist insults and calls” (RFE) • Why India doesn’t recognise Kosovo’s statehood, despite new Kosovan trade office in Delhi (The Post)

Albanian Language Media: • Government: Rasic’s appointment has not violated the Constitution (media) • “Kurti decision on Rasic right from Kosovo standpoint; north is a problem” (Express) • Osmani calls meeting of institutional leaders after killing of pregnant woman (media) • Haxhiu: Ministry completed its tasks; problem lies with judicial institutions (Koha) • PDK’s Lushtaku tells Interior Minister: I was hoping you will resign (Kosovapress) • Kosovo Police arrest Serb suspected of war crimes in 1999 (media) • PDK deputy leader Citaku reacts to Vucic’s remarks about Kurti (media) • Court temporarily blocks decision to reduce salaries of prosecutors and judge (media) • Kurti: Judiciary very efficient when their case is concerned, but not with court cases (Klan) • Suspect of the murder of the 35-year-old pregnant woman committed suicide (media) Serbian Language Media: • Stano: The appointment of Rasic 'does not meet all the conditions stipulated by the Constitution’ (media) • Vucic: The situation in Kosovo boiling, I meant everything I said about Rasic, Trajkovic and Kurti; Serbs South of Ibar close to leave the institutions (media) • Serbia, EU sign three agreements (Tanjug) • Foreign Minister Dacic: Vucic is right (Danas, TV Pink) • Vucic: EU has demonstrated anti-Serb attitude (Tanjug, media) • Serbian List: President Vucic exposed the hypocrisy of the international community towards the Serbian people in Kosovo (Kosovo Online) • Hill: There will be no further agreements without solving the issue of the collective rights of Serbs, the US and the EU made it clear to Kurti (KoSSev) • KP: Arrested Serb suspected of war crimes (KoSSev) • Office for KiM: G. M. arrested when he went to report usurped property (KoSSev) • Petkovic: The EU received the answer it deserves from Vucic (Kosovo Online) • PM Brnabic reacted to Stano's statement: This kind of reaction is a shame for the EU (Blic, Kosovo Online) • Stano: Both sides urgently need to work on the return of Serbs to institutions (Tanjug, media) • Dacic met Nuland (Tanjug) International: • Kosovo Must Get Real on Threat of Far-Right Extremism (BIRN)

• Escobar confident that agreement on Association will be implemented (media) • Lajcak: If parties committed, agreement can be reached within weeks (media) • Lajcak will visit Kosovo and Serbia next week (Kanal10) • Osmani: Membership in EU and NATO, pillar of peace and stability (media) • Kurti to Pack: Kosovo to apply to the EU this month (media) • Kurti: Entire chain of irresponsibility must resign (media) • Haxhiu: Ready to resign if my responsibility for murder case is proved (teve1) • UNMIK chief stands in solidarity with the women of Kosovo, calling for an end to gender violence (KosovaPress) • ‘Resignation isn’t enough’: protest after murder of pregnant woman (Euronews) • Vucic says he will not attend EU-Western Balkans summit in Tirana (media) • “Vucic’s hysteria is failed attempt to true reasons for refusing summit” (media) • Hasani argues Rasic’s appointment violates the Constitution (Koha) • PDK leader Krasniqi meets Viola von Cramon (media) • Kosovo’s Low-Quality TV Debates Deter Real Experts (Prishtina Insight)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, December 1, 2022 Albanian Language Media: • Kurti appoints Nenad Rasic as Minister for Communities and Returns (media) • Osmani: WB membership in the EU and NATO, pillar of peace and stability (Koha) • Rada Trajkovic, advisor to the new minister of the Kurti government (Koha) • Steinmeier praises Lajcak, says that author of agreement proposal is not important (Express) • Kurti reacts again to killing of pregnant woman by her husband (media) • Haxhiu: There will be resignations, dismissals, and criminal responsibility (EO) • Abdixhiku to Kurti: State has failed in every direction, take measures and act (media) • AAK’s Lekaj calls for resignation of Justice Minister and Acting Health Minister (EO) • Szunyog horrified by last night's murder (RTK) • CDHRF: Killing of pregnant woman, failure of state protection mechanisms (media) Serbian Language Media: • Serbian List announces complaint to Constitutional Court over Rasic’s appointment, says it is anti-constitutional (Kosovo Online) • Petkovic: Nenad Rasic and Rada Trajkovic do not represent Serbian people in Kosovo (media) • Rada Trajkovic, advisor to Minister Rasic (KiM radio) • Rasic: It won't be difficult to be better than the predecessor (KiM radio) • Dacic: Kurti lives in parallel reality (Radio KIM) • UNS: “The Black Peony” award goes to Kurti for worst cooperation with journalists (N1) • Petkovic: Everyone saw Kurti's true intentions (Kosovo Online) • Dacic: Rewarding Pristina counterproductive, EU demonstrates double standards (Tanjug) • Petkovic: ZSO obligation that Kurti undertook (Kosovo Online) • Kosovo PM: We won't allow establishment of another Republika Srpska in Kosovo (N1 Sarajevo) • Dodik on Kurti’r remarks about Republika Srpska (Kosovo Online) • Bosnia and Herzegovina border police says Kosovo residents may enter country with visa only (Kosovo Online) • Lopandic: Kosovo stands no chances of obtaining candidate status for EU membership (Kosovo online, Danas) • Petrides: Cypriot position on Kosovo unchanged, ties with Serbia strong (Tanjug) International: • Kosovo Authorities Failed Second Woman Murdered in Week (BIRN) Humanitarian/Development: • Employment of women from non-majority communities remains a challenge (RTK)