Albanian Language Media:
• Rutte and NATO ambassadors expected to visit Kosovo (RTK)
• Maqedonci meets Hargreaves: Discuss importance of coordination (Express)
• Kurti does not appear at the Prosecutor’s Office, despite Court order (media)
• Kurti from Gjilan: The Prosecution is fighting the government (media)
• Prosecution on Kurti's failure to appear for interview (media)
• AJK condemns Kurti's attacks on media (media)
• Kurti speaks about eventual coalition with Nisma (Blic)
• CorrWatch: Stop practice of operating with acting CEOs (Klan)
Serbian Language Media:
• Fight in the Serbian Parliament: Smoke bombs, torches, banners, mutual accusations (KoSSev, media)
• Petkovic: Now it is clear why Kurti supported the attack on Serbia from the beginning (Tanjug)
• Serbian List: Shameful scenes in the Serbian Parliament (KiM Radio)
• Endangered hermitage of St. Petar Koriski near Prizren (Radio KIM, Politika)
• Attorney Pantovic: When can we talk about espionage and when not (KiM Radio, KoSSev, Radio Mitrovica sever)
• Prosecution in Belgrade charges three over canopy collapse (N1)
International Media:
• Serbia, students and emperors (balcanicaucaso.org)
• ‘Eldorado’: Profits, politics and pitfalls of Balkan Green Energy subsidies (Balkan Insight)
Humanitarian:
• Sport brings communities together at children’s swimming classes in Pristina (Prishtina Insight)
UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, March 4, 2025
UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, March 3, 2025
Albanian Language Media:
Over 66% of postal votes counted, LVV leads (Koha)
Osmani congratulates Bulgaria on Liberation Day (RTK)
Abdixhiku: LDK has grown by 70 thousand votes (media)
MLGA signs agreements, about 8 million euros for 12 municipalities (RTK)
Riinvest Institute: Kosovo is aging rapidly (Telegrafi)
EP Rapporteur on Serbia blames Vucic for failure to hold meetings (media)
Serbian Language Media:
Jevtic: Dozens of Serbs from Strpce municipality received summons to report to Kosovo police (Kosovo Online, Danas, Tanjug)
Trial of Kostic and Milovic postponed, defence requests measure of house arrest with bail (Kosovo Online)
Vucic: We will invite everyone to Belgrade (Alternativna.com)
Brnabic: There will be no counter-protest on March 15 (N1, media)
Prosecutor Stefanovic on NGO business checks: Those who haven’t committed criminal acts have nothing to fear (N1)
The Student Edict adopted at rally in Nis (N1)
Opinion:
Justice and Realpolitik: Trump, Thaci and the Kosovo Special Court (Balkan Insight)
UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, February 27, 2025
Albanian Language Media:
• Torres, Mandl: Kosovo is, will always be an independent democracy (media)
• German embassy on closing of Serbia-funded centers in north of Kosovo (media)
• Hyseni: Kurti 3 government will be formed (EO)
• Osmani and civil society discuss Commission for Transitional Justice (media)
• Orav: Over €880 million for implementation of Kosovo Reform Agenda (media)
• COMKFOR Barduani visits Albania (media)
• Prosecution requests from Court of Appeal Glauk Konjufca’s retrial (media)
Serbian Language Media:
• German Embassy: Agreement on the Path to Normalization between Kosovo and Serbia not outdated (Kosovo online, RFE)
• Petkovic met Li Ming: 9,000 users are at risk with the closure of centers for social work (KiM radio)
• SNV, 'Otadzbina' and SNF: Serbian List organizes Serbs from Kosovo to support Vucic (KiM radio)
• Vucic: Dodik’s verdict is directed against the Serb people as a whole (N1, Beta, media)
• Picula: Dialogue positive, not optimistic about EU integration (N1, Hina)
• NIS gets 30-day extension on US sanctions, said Vucic (N1)
Opinion:
• Kosovo’s foreign policy amid global uncertainty (Kosovo 2.0)
International Media:
• Outcomes from Kosovo’s 2025 Parliamentary Election (e-ir.info)
• U.S. State Department Backs Conviction of Milorad Dodik (Sarajevo Times)
• Shrugging off pay threats, Serbian teachers strike in support of students (BIRN)
UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, February 26, 2025
Albanian Language Media:
• Kurti: People expecting from us to form new institutions ASAP (media)
• French Embassy: Actions in north damage efforts for normalization (media)
• “Actions of security institutions not aimed against international partners” (media)
• Haxhiu: Kurti never refused to give testimony to prosecution (Indeksonline)
• Taravari: If part of Kosovo taken away, it could ignite Third World Conflict (media)
Serbian Language Media:
• Vucic met Botsan-Kharchenko, discussed current affairs (Kosovo Online, media)
• Journalists' Association of Serbia and its branch in Kosovo: Ensure working conditions and professional independence of RTK2 (KiM Radio, medijacentar.info)
• Vorgucic and Milutinovic: There will be no Serbian media in Kosovo if there is no support (KiM radio, Kontakt plus radio)
• Slovak MFA: A principled stance on Ukraine, just as we do not recognize Kosovo (Kosovo Online)
• Pilja: Pristina's request for special guest status in the Council of Europe is on the agenda (Tanjug, Kosovo Online, Blic)
• 15 Minutes of Silence vigil held in Mitrovica North (KoSSev)
• EC expects Serbia to provide good environment for civil society (N1)
• Freedom House: Because of Vucic and SNS, citizens' freedoms are constantly deteriorating (NMagazin, N1)
International Media:
• Germany’s new parliament includes 21 MPs of Balkan origin (BIRN)
• Serbian police raids target NGOs supported by USAID (RFE)
• Dodik sentenced to a year in prison and and banned from serving as RS president (N1 Sarajevo)
UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, February 25, 2025
Albanian Language Media:
Osmani and Swedish Ambassador sign Cooperation Agreement (RTK)
Six people arrested for assaulting police officers in Mitrovica North (media)
KFOR Finnish soldiers conduct patrol in northern Kosovo (media)
Feith to Kosovo: Don't take U.S. support for granted from now on (euronews.al)
Prelec calls CEC’s protracted vote count a state collapse (ekonomia)
Enver Hoxhaj congratulates German CDU officials (Blic)
Kurti: Faik Rexhepi – symbol of important political events (RTK)
Serbian Language Media:
Vucic receives EP's Fourlas, says Serbia remains on EU path (Tanjug)
Vucic: Serbia should have abstained in UNGA vote on EU resolution on Ukraine (Tanjug, media)
Serbian List condemns mistreatment of young men during arrest by Kosovo police (Kosovo Online, media)
Claims of excessive use of force by Kosovo police during arrest of six men in Mitrovica North, police deny (Alternativna.com, Radio KIM)
Brnabic: I will meet with Picula, his assessment of Serbia's progress is ‘disgrace’ (Tanjug)
Police raid NGOs, investigating USAID funding (N1, RTS)
Joe Travel provides free transport for upcoming students protest in Nis from Mitrovica North (Radio kontakt plus)
International Media:
Dazed and confused: Kosovo parties mull options after indecisive election (BIRN)
‘Case Closed’: How Kosovo authorities neglected investigation into North Mitrovica incident (Prishtina Insight)