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)
UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, June 14, 2022
UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, June 13, 2022
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)
UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, June 10, 2022
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)
UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, June 9, 2022
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)
UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, June 8, 2022
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)