Albanian Language Media: • Kurti: Let’s try the secret vote; if Haxhiu doesn’t win, another candidate (media) • Osmani will call party leaders to a meeting soon (Indeksonline) • Kurti: Radoicic and his criminals need to be handed over to Kosovo (media) • Special prosecution charges two Serbs for war crimes against civilians (media) • EU: Kosovo authorities were informed about testing on Mitrovica bridge (Koha) • Kosovo Police managed security situation during “Vidovdan” (media) • Inspectorate: No irregularities or misconduct by police during Vidovdan (media) • “Find a job after autumn”, “unblock the budget”; Kurti, Rama trade barbs (media) • Hehir: Specialist Court, a project to appease Serbia (AP) • Draskovic: Serbia must recognize Kosovo’s reality (AP/Pobjeda) Serbian Language Media: • Vucic with Sánchez: Spain’s principled support for Serbia’s territorial integrity (Kosovo Online, media) • Igor Simic: This Vidovdan shown the best what the life of Serbs in Kosovo looks like (Tanjug, Kosovo Online, TV Pink) • A Czech detained in N. Mitrovica on Saturday while taking a photo next to the monument; Elshani: He was suspicious (KoSSev, KiM radio) • Serbs on wanted lists over barricades: How much the word of the EU and U.S. State Department is worth? (Kosovo Online) Opinion: • Suroi: Kosovo threatened by an unresolved conflict with Serbia and technological changes without cultural support; Neziraj of a similar opinion (KoSSev) • Is the EU waiting for Trump to normalize Kosovo-Serbia relations? (Koha) International: • Balkan Insight’s first despatch: Net closes on alleged Suva Reka killers (BIRN) • ‘Our countries needed us: How five Balkan women built BIRN (BIRN) • Roma, Ashkali, and Egyptian communities in Kosovo face double burden of poverty and discrimination (PI) • Thousands set up street blockades in Serbia after arrests of anti-government protesters (AP) • Serbia police clash with anti-government protesters in Belgrade (BBC)

Albanian Language Media: • MPs agree to postpone assembly constitutive session for Sunday (media) • Kurti calls meeting with party leaders on Saturday (media) • Haxhiu: If I don’t get at least 61 votes in secret vote, I will withdraw (media)Kurti: Serbia can provoke incidents in Gazimestan tomorrow (Koha) • Tahiri: We stand behind position for a government with LDK, Alliance (Express) • Special prosecution files war crimes charges against a person (media) Serbian Language Media: • Saint Vitus Day to be traditionally marked in Gracanica, but with anxiety over ban to display Serbian flags (Radio KIM) • 26 years since kidnapping and murder of Serbs in Dojnice village commemorated in Saint George Church in Prizren (TV Most, RTV Gracanica) • Another indictment for war crimes: D.R. accused of attacks on the Albanian civilian population (KoSSev) • Sljuka: EU at an impasse – no de-escalation, no consensus on lifting sanctions on Kosovo (Kosovo Online) • Djuric thanks Brazil for consistent support on Kosovo issue (Euronews Serbian, media) • Assange's legal team thanked the Journalists' Association of Serbia for fighting for freedom of WikiLeaks founder (KoSSev, UNS) International: • Kosovo prepares for deportees from US amid warnings Balkans becoming a migrant 'Warehouse' (RFE) • U.S. delays sanctions on Serbia's NIS until July 29 – report (SeeNews)

Albanian Language Media: • EU avoids answer to Trump’s claims about solving Kosovo-Serbia issue (AP) • Trump: National emergency with respect to the Western Balkans (media) • Bahtiri says he’ll leave Vetevendosje in the event of a coalition with PDK (media) • Murati: Post of deputy speaker for Serb community should not go to SL (media) • Kosovo falls by three positions on Global Peace Index 2025 (media) • Kurti hails agreement between Ukraine and CoE on Special Tribunal (media) • Testing on Iber Bridge done by a company contracted by the EU (Koha) • “Evidence: Arsenijevic drives the vehicle of a ‘Banjska terrorist’” (TeVe1) Serbian Language Media: • Andric Rakic: Stories about two new bridges please public in Kosovo (Kosovo Online) • Gogic: New bridges between South and North Mitrovica part of pre-election rhetoric (media) • SNF calls on Serbian mayors to raise Serbian flags on Saint Vitus Day (Radio KIM) • Arlov banned from entering Kosovo again (TV Most, media) • Milivojevic: Students are not terrorists, but Radoicic who roams Serbia with a paramilitary unit and provokes armed incidents (KoSSev) • Arrests across Serbia (N1, KoSSev) • Students announce the time and place of Belgrade protest (N1) International: • Parliament deadlock, critics question legality of Kosovo govt decisions (BIRN) • Obligation of businesses entering free energy market challenged at court (PI) • Court ruling brings risk of reversal of power market liberalization in Kosovo* (balkangreenenergynews.com) • Serbia's students plan major rally after issuing 'ultimatum' (DW)

Albanian Language Media: 37th attempt to form new Kosovo Assembly fails (media) CSOs call for political agreement to break the Assembly deadlock (media) Haradinaj welcomes action by civil society representatives (Nacionale) Kurti: Winning party alone doesn’t constitute Assembly, form it together (Sinjali) Abdixhiku: Kurti is saying things without an ounce of intelligence (media) Pacolli says Vetevendosje has enough votes to form the new government (media) Svecla: Arsenijevic should answer before the law as soon as possible (media) Chamber asks Kurti to postpone move to free energy market (Sinjali) Chamber notifies about another decision cancelling ERO notification (media) AmCham calls on ERO to suspend free energy market measures (media) Rafuna: There are hundreds of lawsuits by businesses (AP) Durmishi says construction of two new bridges over Iber will start soon (RTV21) Sadiku: I support construction of bridges, but now is not the time (RFE) AJK condemns obstruction of the work of Radio Gorazdevac team (media) Serbian Language Media: Office for “KiM: One more Serb a member of Serbian MIA, expelled from Kosovo on the Kurti's order” (Radio Mitrovica sever) Andric Rakic: Serbs suppressed, events in world create blank space for Self-determination to do what they want (Kosovo Online) Serbian Democracy: Pressures and threats against a Serbian woman who they want to evict from Leposavic (Danas) For 26 years Verica Tomanovic is searching for her husband, renowned surgeon kidnapped in Pristina from his working place (Kosovo Online) Deportation of Serbian police officers: Arbitrary decisions, fear of ethnic motives, and silence of international representatives (Alternativna) Svecla terms Arsenijevic’s accusations ‘science fiction’ (KoSSev) Pec municipal workers assisted by Kosovo police remove graffiti in Gorazdevac, journalist told to go away (Radio Gorazdevac, Alternativna, media) NUNS: Verbal assault and identification of journalist in Gorazdevac concerning pressure on freedom of media (Kosovo Online) International: Kosovo to cap fuel profit margins (SeeNews) Eastern Kosovo town’s mountain resort becomes hotspot for illegal construction (PI) Donald Trump with Nato ‘all the way’ after questioning mutual defence pact (Financial Times)

Albanian Language Media: • Kurti: Opposition extending our mandate; I assure you there is no agreement (EO) • Poll: 48.4 percent of people satisfied with work of Kurti government (Telegrafi) • ERO says it has not suspended decision on energy market liberalization (RFE) • ERO decision on a business moving to free energy market suspended (media) • NATO: Serbia to hold Banjska group, attackers of KFOR accountable (Express) • Kosovo: Selection of deportees from US in line with security criteria (RFE) • Krasniqi meets Norwegian special envoy for Western Balkans (media) Serbian Language Media: • Pantovic: The verdict against Ivan Mrkic the continuation of legal violence against Serbs in Kosovo (Kosovo Online) • The SL and Office for KiM: The sentence against Ivan Mrkic is ethnically motivated (KiM radio, Kosovo Online, Tanjug, Danas) • The law does not prevent early elections, but there is no political will: Kosovo in an institutional vacuum (Danas) • "Arsenijevic seems to be target of both Belgrade and Pristina" (Danas) • Serbian Defense Ministry says arms and military equipment exports suspended (N1, media) Opinion: • The Kosovo-Serbia dispute amid global turmoil: a defining test for the EU (NEE) International: • New exhibition by Kosovo art students draws inspiration from real life (PI) • North Macedonia, Kosovo planning 400 kV power interconnection (BGEN) • Kosovo’s trade gap expands 21.5% y/y in May (SeeNews) • Bears at gates: When the wild gets too close in Montenegro and Kosovo (BIRN) • “We Couldn’t Avoid Him”: Why Serbian journalists have spent 10 Years investigating one man (occrp.org)