Albanian Language Media:

• Kosovo Assembly adopts in principle law on minimum wage (media)
• PDK announces boycott of today's Assembly session (media)
• EP: Final agreement between Kosovo and Serbia to centre on mutual recognition (media)
• Austria's FM Schallenberg visits Kosovo, calls for visa liberalisation (media)
• “Open Balkan has meaning only if six countries are involved” (Klan Kosova)
• Delegation from Croatian parliament visits Kosovo Assembly (media)

Serbian Language Media:

• Vucic: There will be no power anywhere, hard winter ahead; no mention of mutual recognition in the negotiating framework with the EU (Danas, Beta)
• AFET adopts report on Serbia: "Urgent" sanctions on Russia demanded; legally binding agreement based on mutual recognition between Belgrade and Pristina (Danas)
• Bilcik on the report: "It is not an ultimatum, the government in Serbia should decide whether it will be on the right side of history" (Danas)
• Bilcik against the wording ‘mutual recognition’ (KoSSev, RFE)
• Vucic: Non-paper presented, Austria wants tangible enlargement process (N1, Beta, FoNet)

International:

• Western Balkan migrant route most used in 2022 (Euractive)

• Bislimi: Agreement on energy in the north is very close (media)
• Haradinaj: All citizens must be included in a single energy system (media)
• European Parliament foreign committee to discuss report on Kosovo (RFE)
• Kosovo leaders meet to coordinate actions on foreign policy (media)
• Foreign Minister Gervalla reacts to critics, shares video praising KLA (Telegrafi)
• Kurti’s opposition to Open Balkan leaves Kosovo looking isolated (BIRN)
• Austrian Foreign Minister to visit Kosovo today (media)
• Assembly President Konjufca to visit former KLA leaders on June 17 (media)
• A determining week for the pension trust and the minimum wage (Koha)
• Draft strategy on transitional justice aimed in three months (Koha)

Albanian Language Media:

• PDK, AAK call for minimum wage bill to be removed from assembly agenda (RFE)
• LDK leader Abdixhiku insists on removing excise duty on fuel products (media)
• Finance minister Murati rejects proposal to lift excise duty on fuel (media)
• Austrian chief diplomat to stay in Prishtina on Tuesday (Gazeta Express)
• Mehaj: U.S. support, irreplaceable in our development processes (Klan Kosova)
• Abazovic, Rama and Kovacevski to visit Kyiv together? (RTV21)

Serbian Language Media:

• Selakovic on sanctions against Russia: Serbia cannot impose sanctions to someone who respects its territorial integrity (Kosovo Online, RTV, Tanjug)
• Austrian FM expects region in the EU (FoNet, N1)
• Petkovic with US Ambassador Hill on dialogue and situation in Kosovo (RTS, Radio Mitrovica sever)
• Djuric: Serbia-US relations on constant upward trajectory (Tanjug, N1, Politika)
• Ambassador Hill: Serbia to consider its neutral position (N1)
• Vucic: Scholz requested that Serbia join sanctions on Russia (Tanjug)
• Scholz: Germany expects EU membership candidates to join Russia sanctions (media)
• Two young Serbs stabbed in Straze village, near Gnjilane (Beta, NMagazin, RTV Puls, Kosovo Online)
• Office for KiM: Two shops in Velika Hoca robbed (Kontakt plus radio)
• Novo Brdo: Several returnee homes broken into in Ceranovica hamlet (Kontakt plus radio, Radio Mitrovica sever)
• Displaced persons from Suva Reka forbidden to attend the monastery's celebration (KiM radio)

Opinion:

• The Balkan chessboard and notable absentees (ekathimerini.com)

International:

• EU Parliament urges Serbia to reconsider relationship with Russia (Euractive)
• How to keep the EU accession dream alive (intellinews.com)

• Anniversary of NATO troops entering marked in Kosovo (media)
• Osmani at SEECP summit: Kosovo's membership in CoE of interest to all citizens (media)
• Kurti: To achieve reconciliation, Serbia needs to apologise (Koha)
• German, Serbian leaders clash over Kosovo, Russia sanctions (Politico)
• Scholz: Serbia, Kosovo must recognize each other to join EU (AP)
• Kosovo President Osmani and Greek PM Mitsotakis discuss intensifying relations (media)
• Vucic signals agreement with KEDS over electricity in the north (RFE)
• Gervalla-Schwarz: Kosovo couldn't have a truer friend than the U.S. (media)
• Serbian List should be interviewed, voluntarily or otherwise, former prosecutor says (RFE)
• Group of Kosovo and Serbia NGOs call for upholding of the rule of law in Decan (media)
• Municipality says problems with Decan Monastery prevent infrastructure investments (RTK)
• In Kosovo, Frustration Grows over Promised Road to Montenegro (BIRN)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, June 10, 2022

Albanian Language Media:

• German Chancellor Olaf Scholz visits Kosovo (media)
• FAZ on Scholz's visit: Two days, five countries, many conflicts (Telegrafi)
• Kosovo insurance bureau hopes to join Green Card in weeks' time (Koha)

Serbian Language Media:

• Vucic: Serbia, Montenegro need to reset relationship (Tanjug)
• Serbian Government to provide EUR 3 million aid to Ukrainian children, refugees (Tanjug)
• Botsan-Kharchenko: There is no dependence and inequalities in Moscow-Belgrade relations (Danas)
• NGOs from central Serbia and Kosovo call for rule of law to be respected in Decani (Danas)
• Scholz to visit Belgrade (Tanjug)
• EEAS: Open Balkan Initiative full effects only if truly inclusive (N1)
• US Ambassador says Serbians chose path to EU (FoNet, N1)

Opinion:

• It’s time to get European enlargement back on track (Politico)

International:

• Germany's Olaf Scholz visits Greece: Crisis management takes center stage (DW)
• Data Delay Casts Shadow over Kosovo Government’s Jobs Claim (BIRN)

Humanitarian/Development:

• Finance Ministry, GIZ sign €11 mil agreement for Innovation and Training Park (media)
• Kosovo Mother Declares: ‘I am Proud of My Gay Son’ (BIRN)
• Media tragedy of family tragedy (KoSSev)

• German Chancellor Scholz to stay in Kosovo today (media)
• Kosovo PM unimpressed with Serbian President’s energy deal offer (BIRN)
• President Osmani travels to Greece to attend SEECP leaders’ meeting (media)
• Kosovo war court extends ex-President Thaci’s detention again (BIRN)
• Thaci and others accept Assembly President Konjufca’s visit (RTK)
• Serbian List officials rejects invitations from the prosecution (RFE)
• Osmani visits KSF: “Kosovo’s present and future are in safe hands” (media)
• Kurti: We launched new online government services on e-Kosova platform (media)
• Interior Minister: 4,000 bullets confiscated at Jarinje border crossing (media)

Albanian Language Media:

• German Chancellor Scholz in Prishtina tomorrow; will meet only Kurti (RTK)
• European Council President Charles Michel to visit Kosovo next week (RFE)
• Kurti: To have Open Balkan, Serbia needs to open to Kosovo (Zeri/Telegrafi)
• State Department supports all initiatives that economically empower the Balkans (RFE)
• Pacolli urges Kosovo to join Open Balkan (media)
• “Kosovo to consider joining Open Balkan only if given equal status” (Portali D/Telegrafi)
• Former PM Hoti comments on Open Balkan initiative (media)
• Mehaj: We are preparing for our objective, NATO membership (media)
• Kurti meets Irish non-resident ambassador (media)
• LDK to propose resolution on reducing excise duty on fuel products (media)

Serbian Language Media:

• Vucic dismisses RFE report (N1)
• Brnabic met Equatorial Guinea President, thanked him for stance on Kosovo (Tanjug)
• State Department without comment on Pristina’s stance on Open Balkan (Radio KIM)
• Open Balkan initiative leaders sign agreements, memoranda in Ohrid (N1, Beta)
• EP report on Serbia: Alignment with EU foreign policy to determine further course of accession negotiations (RTS)
• Borrell: Failure to enable Serbian elections in Kosovo contrary to European values commitment (NMagazin, Beta)
• One year since return of Dragica Gasic to Djakovica (Kosovo-online)
• 23rd anniversary of the Kumanovo Agreement (N1)
• DW: Scholz to focus on blocked issues in Western Balkans (N1)

Humanitarian/Development:

• Reporting news from online portals – social networks and influence on public (media)

• Montenegro mulls joining ‘Open Balkan’, Kosovo remains opposed (BIRN)
• President Osmani meets Greek Foreign Minister Dendias (media)
• PM Kurti: Kosovo’s relationship with Greece grows closer every day (media)
• Dendias meets heads of international missions and Quint ambassadors (media)
• Interior Minister Svecla interview with KTV
• LDK leader Abdixhiku meets US Ambassador Hovenier (media)
• Mehaj: Turkey supports Kosovo’s membership in security organisations (RTK)
• Rama and Vucic debunk Lavrov’s claims on Open Balkan (euronews.al)
• “Vucic spectacular achievement by dividing Tirana and Prishtina” (euronews.al)
• Kosovo theatre director takes on controversy over Handke Nobel Prize (BIRN)
• Pride Parade today in Prishtina; will leaders attend? (Gazeta Express)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, June 8, 2022

Albanian Language Media:

• Open Balkan summit enters its second day (media)
• On Global Open Day, calls made for greater participation of women in decision-making processes (media)
• AAK requests removal of tax on oil, staple items (media)

Serbian Language Media:

• The Open Balkans are expanding despite Russian obstructions (Danas)
• Vucic: This is initiative of people from Balkans, and it is unstoppable (Kosovo Online)
• Escobar: "Include all six countries in the Open Balkan", Varhelyi: "Initiative that accelerates the path to the EU" (Danas)
• Vucic speaks with Borrell, receives invitation to EU-Western Balkans summit (Tanjug)
• Selakovic confirms he accepted Lavrov’s invitation to visit Moscow (Danas)
• Botsan-Kharchenko: Moscow does not change stance on Kosovo (Radio KIM)
• Arifi: US promises special treatment of the issue of Albanians from Bujanovac, Presevo and Medvedja (KoSSev, N1, Beta)
• Belgrade schools receive fresh bomb threats (RTS, N1)
• Abazovic to visit Belgrade on June 29 (RTS)

• Kosovo PM Kurti meets UK Foreign Secretary Truss (media)
• Greek foreign minister to visit Kosovo today (media)
• Gervalla invited to “Summit of the Americas” (media)
• Vucic and Borrell discuss a Kosovo-Serbia declaration on missing persons (Indeksonline)
• EU on Lavrov remarks: We don’t comment on positions of someone on sanctions list (Telegrafi)
• Open Balkan Meeting Kicks off in Ohrid with Presence of Montenegro (Exit)
• Varhelyi to attend Open Balkan meeting amid claims of Russian backing (Euractiv/Exit)
• Krasniqi: "Open Balkan" is a political project, Kosovo doesn't support it (RTK)
• Robelli: Alexander Soros attended "Open Balkan" with no mandate (Koha)
• Konjufca and Richardson hold virtual meeting (media)
• For Kosovo Women, In-Laws are Often Abusers Too (BIRN)