• The Quint calls on Kosovo to implement decision on Decani Monastery land (media) • Osmani asks Slovenia to persuade partners to lift visa requirements (BIRN) • Government doesn’t expect results from dialogue before Serbia elections (Koha) • EU: Serbia should allow Kosovo ministers to visit Presevo (media) • LDK MP: I don’t believe there should be early elections (media) • Dugolli: We will have helicopters during this mandate (KTV) • Von Cramon’s call to Germany on changing its stance on Serbia angers PM Brnabic (euronews.al) • Surroi: Kurti, Rama wouldn’t mention referendum if not asked (Klan Kosova) • Only 19 percent of women elected to municipal assemblies (Lajmi) • Albania, Kosovo plan joint children’s textbook for 2022 (BIRN) • COVID-19: Eight new cases, one death (media)

Albanian Language Media: • Bashkim Jashari appointed new commander of KSF (media) • KSF commander resigns (Albanian Post) • EU supports institutions and strengthening of law and order in Kosovo (RTK) • Gervalla: Approach to visa liberalisation for Kosovo could change soon (media) • Krasniqi meets Lajcak: Dialogue should end with mutual recognition (Klan) • PDK mentions new elections as way out of parliamentary stalemate (Telegrafi) • Konjufca meets Austrian Ambassador: Final agreement, mutual recognition (RTK) • Kosovo Police special unit surround the Post Office premises (RTK) • Kosovo and Germany with an agreement to support the KSF with 1 million euros (Klan) • COVID-19: Eight new cases, one death (media) Serbian Language Media: • PM Brnabic and Viola von Cramon correspondence on Twitter (Kosovo Online) • Von Cramon: Berlin could change approach towards Belgrade (N1) • Environmental movement calls Vucic to annul controversial laws (N1) • Northern Kosovo fears that it might be left without power supply; non-compliance with agreements, unpaid bills and Kurti’s ''the day will come'' (Euronews Serbia) • Gracanica: Ljiljana Subaric and members of the Municipal Assembly took the oath (KiM radio) • Petkovic with Botsan Kharchenko on dialogue (KiM radio) Opinion: • Legal framework for Kosovo Serbs tailored to Pristina (part three): What kind of future awaits them? (KoSSev)

• Kurti tells Pahor: Serbia to reflect on damage and crimes committed in Kosovo (media) • Ilir Dugolli tipped to become Kosovo's new ambassador to U.S. (Gazeta Express) • Kamberi: Serbia not interested in relaxing relations with Kosovo (Klan) • Bugajski: Kosovo-Serbia agreement only with mutual recognition (Express) • Unresolved murders, argument in favour of Special Prosecution investigating the Gllogjan case (Koha) • Szunyog: Violence against women, a terrible reality in Kosovo (Koha) • Kosovo’s Top Court Suspends Hydropower Plant Water Permit (BIRN) • COVID-19: Two new cases, no deaths (media)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, November 29, 2021 Albanian Language Media: • Pahor: Kosovo and Serbia to trust the dialogue, respect agreements (media) • Osmani: EU should react towards Serbia’s destabilizing rhetoric in the region (RTK) • Prosecution: Investigations in Decan are not easy (RFE Albanian) • Ibishi: Attack threats should be taken seriously (Ekonomia) • Croatian Ambassador to Albania: "Serbian World" is being legitimized with "Open Balkans" (Klan) • COVID-19: Two new cases, no deaths (media) Serbian Language Media: • Covid-19: 65 new cases registered in Serbian areas on Saturday (Radio KIM) • Vucic: I am completely convinced that we should not recognize Kosovo (KoSSev, KiM radio, Tanjug, TV Pink) • Vucic meets with Pahor in Belgrade (Tanjug) • Pahor on ZSO in Pristina: I understand decision of Constitutional Court, but agreements must be respected (KoSSev) • Visoki Decani Monastery extends condolences to families of victims in Glodjane (social media) • Blinken: Indispensable role of Serbia in promoting the regional stability (Tanjug) • Survey on Law on Referendum: Most people think it is related to Kosovo and Rio Tinto Company (KoSSev) • Petkovic elected member of SNS Presidency, Djuric Vice-President (Kosovo-online) • Glass on a store belonging to Blagoje Radic from Orahovac broken (Radio kontakt plus) International: • Kosovo’s Forensic Investigators: ‘We are the Voice of the Dead’ (Balkan Insight) Humanitarian/Development: • Three weak earthquakes hit Kosovo (N1, RTS, KiM radio)

• Kosovo leaders condemn attack on bus that killed three (Prishtina Insight) • Bus attack in Gllogjan: Several tracks of investigation, no arrested (Koha) • Thousands gather to pay tribute for 3 victims of tragic bus attack (euronews.al) • Serbian authorities reject visit by Kosovo government ministers (RFE) • Kurti for the KSF: You are a continuation of the KLA (Telegrafi) • Robelli: On the empty rhetoric of unification (Koha) • COVID-19: Six new cases, no deaths (media) • Kosovo – Serbia dialogue must continue, Slovenian President says (media) • Serbia ranks Albania and Kosovo as “hostile countries” (Express/Informer.rs)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, November 26, 2021 Albanian Language Media: • Rama: Different positions on Open Balkan do not hurt us (media) • Kurti to Rama: Let us speak like diplomats and work like patriots (Koha) • Lajcak discusses security situation in Kosovo with KFOR and EULEX (RTK) • Threatening tones of war must not be underestimated, analysts say (Telegrafi) • Rama’s impossible dismissal, President risks violating Constitution (Demokracia) • Meta: Albania fully supports Kosovo – Serbia dialogue (Klan Kosova) • COVID-19: 17 new cases, no deaths (media) Serbian Language Media: • Serbian Parliament adopted the Law on Referendum and People's Initiative, 50 percent turnout threshold abolished (media) • Vucic’s interview to RTS on meeting with Putin, Kosovo issue (RTS) • Vucic: Putin to keep gas price same for Serbia, we saved one national stadium (N1) • Djordjevic: Vucic was not received that well in Russia, as he claims (Danas) • Szunyog: To implement Constitutional Court decision on Visoki Decani Monastery (Radio KIM) • Escobar on Balkan (HINA, N1) • Serbian Ambassador elected Chair of UNESCO Executive Council (Kosovo Online) • RIA Novosti: Russia will get a nuclear power plant in Serbia (NMagazin, Beta, Danas) • Pahor to visit Serbia on Sunday, with Vucic about dialogue with Pristina and the Western Balkans (Tanjug, Kosovo Online) International: • Euronews Albania’s poll on unification, Rama and Kurti give their take (euronews.al) • No more stops from Albania to Kosovo and vice-versa, all controls lifted (euronews.al) • Serbia President Hails ‘Incredible’ Gas Deal With Russia (Balkan Insight)

• Lajcak: Kosovo-Serbia dialogue to produce positive results (RTK) • Meta visits Kosovo: Open Balkan doesn’t guarantee stability or peace in the region (euronews.al) • Residency and Social Contribution Agreements on Friday (Exit) • Head of EU Office Szunyog gives interview to KTV • Kosovo Assembly approves in principle 2022 Budget (media) • Rohde: Government coalition reiterates visa liberalisation commitment (RTK) • President of Slovenia, Pahor, to visit Kosovo next week (media) • Vucic meets Putin in Sochi, Kosovo among topics discussed (euronews.al) • New Dragash mayor to be decided by Diaspora ballots (Telegrafi) • The darkness of the black chronicles (Kosovo 2.0) • Kosovo Buffeted by Waves of Public Sector Strikes (BIRN) • COVID-19: 12 new cases, no deaths (media)

Albanian Language Media: • Kurti: Electricity in four northern municipalities will be billed soon (media) • Konjufca: Kosovo’s future in EU and NATO, not in Serbia’s initiatives (Telegrafi) • Gervalla: War has returned as a real threat in the Balkans (Koha) • Kurti: Today we commemorate women and girls lost to violence (Klan Kosova) • Specialist Chambers confirm some detainees are infected with COVID-19 (Klan Kosova) • Mobile team vaccinates school pupils in Prishtina (Prishtina Insight) • COVID-19: 12 new cases, no deaths (media) Serbian Language Media: • Covid-19: 33 new cases in Serbian communities (Kontakt plus radio) • Putin: Russia supports Serbia's position on resolving the Kosovo issue (Tanjug, Kosovo Online) • Dacic: The law on the referendum has nothing to do with Rio Tinto, the Constitution preamble will not change (Danas) • Petkovic: The only one destabilizing the region is Albin Kurti (Radio Mitrovica sever, Kosovo Online) • Mojsilovic with Kajari: The only legitimate security actor in Kosovo is KFOR (Tanjug, Kosovo Online) • US envoy to Serbia on ‘Open Balkan’: We support economic linkage; Escobar agrees (N1, FoNet) • DSS official won’t run with anyone who says that genocide was committed in Srebrenica and Kosovo is independent (Beta, NIN, N1) • Protesters in Belgrade threaten to block Serbia if two laws are passed (N1) • 520 kg of marijuana seized in Nis (B92, N1, Kosovo Online) International: • Western Balkans in the coalition agreement of the next German government (EWB) • Venice Commission: Serbia followed ‘most’ constitutional recommendations (BIRN)

• Escobar: ‘Open Balkans’ will not function without involvement of six states (RFE Albanian) • Albanian President criticizes “Open-Balkans” initiative from Prishtina (A2) • Gervalla meets Escobar: Dialogue to aim only mutual recognition (media) • New German government supports visa liberalization for Kosovo (RTK) • Kurti receives Chairmen of the Universal Peace Federation (media) • Konjufca: Consensus with opposition against "Zajednica" benefits Kosovo in dialogue (Koha) • Kosovo and Latvia sign MoU on military and security cooperation (media) • Citaku: PDK to soon form 'shadow government' (Telegrafi) • Police Inspectorate: Interview of Police Director not related to confiscation of drugs (media) • Kosovo man faces terror charges after return from Syria (The Washington Post) • “Rexhep Selimi and Nasim Haradinaj catch COVID-19 at The Hague” (Telegrafi) • COVID-19: Six new cases, one death (media) • With stray dog shelter, Kosovo duo bridge ethnic divide (AFP/France 24)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, November 24, 2021 Albanian Language Media: • Kosovo President Osmani meets Canada's Governor General Simon (media) • Kurti: We are committed to fighting crime and corruption, uphold rule of law (media) • EU Special Representative for dialogue, Lajcak, to visit Kosovo tomorrow (Klan) • Kurti: I strongly condemn cases of discrimination against communities in Kosovo (Kallxo) • Hajdari: Anti-dumping measures linked to equality and reciprocity (Koha) • CDBK: Kosovo in CEFTA as a country, not through UNMIK (Zeri) • COVID-19: Six new cases, one death (media) Serbian Language Media: • Vucic on meeting with Putin, talks with Pristina, bigger incentives for childbirth (RTS) • Mihajlovic: Alleged debt for electricity in northern Kosovo a lie, yet another sort of pressure against Serbs (Kosovo-online) • Stano: Pristina to change decision and allow Petar Petkovic to enter Kosovo (Tanjug) • Conference on the Open Balkan today in the Serbian Parliament (RTV Puls, Kosovo Online) • Vucic awarded Golden Charter and Key of Mitrovica North City (KoSSev) • Kremlin: Putin and Vucic to discuss also the prospects for resolving the Kosovo issue (Tanjug, Kosovo Online, TASS) Humanitarian/Development: • Public pulse: Citizens dissatisfied with municipal support during a pandemic (KiM radio) • Kopač: Western Balkans need to introduce CO2 tax by 2025 (balkangreenenergynews.com) • Activists in Balkans raise alarm on rising violence against women (axios.com) • How do you see me? How do I see you? (Kosovo Trustbuilding Platform)