Albanian Language Media: • Von der Leyen in Western Balkans next week, in Pristina on Oct 26 (media) • Rohde: Six countries of Western Balkans benefited from Berlin Process (media) • World Bank issues regular economic report on Western Balkans (media) • Kurti meets with Haddad, “strong Kosovo-France relations reaffirmed” (media) • Tahiri: Normality will return to Kosovo after February 9 (media) • Haradinaj travels to U.S., for meetings at Pentagon, State Department (media) Serbian Language Media: • Serbian PM Vucevic with UNMIK Head Ziadeh on the current situation in Kosovo (Tanjug, Kosovo Online, RTS, media) • Petkovic meets Ziadeh: The irreplaceable role of the UN Mission in Kosovo in preserving peace (Kosovo Online, RTS, Tanjug, media) • Vucevic: Kurti continues to make life difficult for Serbs in Kosovo (Danas, Kosovo Online, TV Pink) • Blanar: Serbia has the full support of Slovakia regarding Kosovo (Tanjug, Politika) • Vucic meets Blanar (Tanjug, media) • Posters about the KP, Self-Determination and plasma biscuits in the north of Mitrovica (KiM radio, Alternativna, KoSSev, Kontakt plus radio) • Von der Leyen next Friday in Belgrade, a day later in Pristina (Tanjug, Kosovo Online) International: • Kosovo sees red in pupils’ self-harm amid limited school psychologists (BIRN) • Sanctions and trials help Bosnian Serb leader win big at polls (BIRN)

Albanian Language Media: • Rutte: The dialogue is not going the way we would like it to (Express) • VV: Opposition’s biggest worry is the changed situation in the north (Telegrafi) • Police: “Parallel municipality issued false documents” (media) • RTK: Broadcast of Assembly session wasn’t interrupted even for a minute (media) • Maqedonci: 1,658 people applied for 300 spots for new KSF recruits (media) • Pacolli reacts to govt spokesperson: Ask Prime Minister and President (media) Serbian Language Media: • Vucic: External and internal pressures increasing, Serbia is bothering them because it defends the UN Charter, Resolution 1244, and its Constitution (Kosovo Online, Euronews, media) • Vucevic on Friday with Ziadeh and Blanar (Kosovo Online) • Serbian List: Kurti does not stop oppressing the Serbian people (KiM radio) • The allegations against A.J. after the weapons seizure, he claims they are airsoft items (KoSSev) • Subaric on the seizure of Gracanica municipal property: I hope this issue will be addressed in the dialogue (Kosovo Online) • Jevtic: The property issue must be on the table in Brussels; Pristina's intent to seize everything Serbian (Kosovo Online) • Eric Swalwell: The USA and Serbia relations have no borders, work to deepen cooperation (Tanjug, Politika) Opinion: • Kosovo’s Human Rights Backsliding: A Threat to All (sbunker.com) International: • Freedom on the Net 2024: Serbia (Freedom House)

Albanian Language Media: • Osmani: Fight for justice for victims of sexual violence in war won’t stop (RFE) • Rohde slams Dodik on blockade to visa-free regime for Kosovo (media) • Stano: Kosovo and its PM do not decide on the removal of measures (Express) • Kryeziu responds to Stano: Measures should be removed (media) • Stano: No information about a next meeting in EU-facilitated dialogue (Paparaci) • New COMKFOR Barduani meets UNMIK chief Ziadeh (media) • First commander of KFOR Sir Michael Jackson dies at 80 (media) Serbian Language Media: • Dacic: The government's policy towards Kosovo has not changed (Tanjug, Vecernje Novosti) • Lazar Dejanovic sentenced to eight months in prison for assaulting an official (Kosovo Online, KoSSev) • KFOR following PR claims on Serbian army near the ABL and the Gendarmerie on Merdare crossing: We are ready to ensure security, regular contacts with the parties (KoSSev) • Vojvodina, China’s province Shandong sign agreement on cooperation (Beta, N1) International: • CEFTA trade bloc keeps Balkans just outside EU membership (DW) • Montenegro census results: Montenegrins 41.12%, Serbs 32.93% of the population (EWB) • Remembering Paul Lowe, photojournalist who pictured Sarajevo in war and peace (BIRN)

Albanian Language Media: • Kurti expects new dynamic in dialogue from the new European Commission (RFE) • Svecla: Serbia’s provocations will fail; ready to respond to any challenge (EO) • Rohde hails decision for visa-free entry for Bosnian citizens into Kosovo (media) • Hoxhaj criticizes Kurti for lifting visa regime for Bosnia and Herzegovina (media) • Bislimi hosts UN Assistant Secretary General Ivana Zivkovic (media) • Steinbaum: If government forms the Association, it violates Constitution (media) • Haradinaj: Kurti, a servant of Serbia; don’t support this man (Gazeta Blic) • PDK’s Kabashi calls for resignation of Defense Minister (Koha) • Person indicted for assault against KFOR and Kosovo Police in 2023 (media) • Police arrest person, finds weapon and jacket with Serbian army emblem (media) • Ministry: Sadik Duraku released from detention in Serbia (media) • Nacionale publishes screenshots of messages between Mihali and Krasniqi Serbian Language Media: • Xhufka and Lejdija pleaded not guilty to breaking into the church near Podujevo (KiM radio, Kosovo Online) • Kilometer-long column of trucks with goods at Merdare crossing (RTS, media) • Another indictment for riots in Zvecan (RTS, Radio Mitrovica sever) • Milicevic: Pristina with the police ethnic composition in the north clearly deviate from the Brussels agreement (Kosovo Online) • Sarrazin: I would like goods to move faster (KiM radio, KoSSev) • Szijjarto: Hungary’s goal is for Serbia to open cluster by year’s end (N1) • Serbia fails to sign letter of support for United Nations chief (Beta, N1) • Northern Kosovo residents: Why so many police stations? We need jobs and roads (Kosovo Online) International: • Kosovo to abolish visas for Bosnian citizens from 2025 (BIRN) • Kosovo shares results of solar subsidy scheme (PV Magazine) • Reversing youth exodus from Western Balkans will be hard, report warns (BIRN) • Historic Kosovo mill owner says state restoration ‘destroyed it’ (BIRN)

Albanian Language Media: • Scholz: New dynamic needed in Kosovo-Serbia normalization of relations (media) • Kurti’s address at the summit of the Berlin Process (media) • Kurti: Good neighborly relations crucial for regional cooperation (media) • Kosovo MPs discuss situation with food supplies for KSF (Radio Free Europe) • VV boycotts assembly session on food supplies for KSF (Nacionale) • Defense Ministry issues statement on situation with KSF food supplies (media) • Ministry alarms QUINT and EU on arrest of Kosovar by Serbian authorities (media) Serbian Language Media: • The meeting of the Berlin Process started (Beta, Kontakt plus radio, media) • Scholz to Belgrade and Pristina: Your future is in the EU – only the implementation of the agreement leads there (Kosovo Online) • Vucevic meets with Haddad in Berlin (Tanjug, media) • The column of trucks on Merdare crossing about two kilometers long; Starovic reacts on X (Kontakt plus radio, KiM radio, Kosovo Online, X) • Search at a private celebration in Leposavic - due to "shooting" but no weapons were found (Kontakt plus radio, Alternativna, KiM radio) • Nastic: We are facing a humanitarian disaster, we rely on the international community (Kosovo Online) • Dacic: “The war crime suspect in Pristina identified by the Serbian family whom he tortured” (Kosovo Online, Vecernje Novosti, Tanjug, RTV) • SafeJournalists: Immediately investigate deliberate destruction of car of Kossev portal’s director (NMagazin, N1) • UNS Condemns attack on KoSSev Director Nevenka Medic’s vehicle in North Mitrovica (KoSSev) • New DSS challenges Brnabic on Kosovo session, questions Vucic’s attendance (N1, Danas, KiM radio) • Matijevic: In Kosovo, IDPs cannot exercise the right to property restitution (Kosovo Online) Opinion: • Ten years on, what has the ‘Berlin Process’ done for the Western Balkans? (BIRN) International: • Feuding leaders of Albania and Kosovo quietly ‘forget’ joint govt meetings (BIRN) • Turkiye and Serbia sign Defense Cooperation Agreement focused on drone technology (armyrecognition.com)