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)
UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, November 30, 2021
UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, November 29, 2021
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)
UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, November 26, 2021
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)
UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, November 25, 2021
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)
UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, November 24, 2021
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)