Albanian Language Media:
• Government: Financial support for "Trepca" depends on promise to resume increase in production (Koha)
• Gervalla appoints Nita Shala as Kosovo's ambassador to Italy (RTK)
• Members of KIA Supervisory Committee met director Petrit Ajeti (RTK)
• Kurti convenes Security Council, discuss fires and traffic safety (Koha)
• LVV MP asks Osmani: On what grounds did you not allow Konjufca to replace Kurti in the meeting? (Reporteri)
• Abdixhiku asks public actors to boycott RTK (Koha)
• FOL: Government has implemented 33% of 147 activities (media)
Serbian Language Media:
• On the remains of the Dolac monastery near Klina: Albanians erase the traces of the sanctuary (KiM radio, Politika)
• Petkovic: Unlawful ban of dinar in Kosovo, the state will continue with regular payments (Tanjug, RTS)
• Residents of central Kosovo half a year without the dinar: We struggle to function, this is a crime (Kosovo Online)
• North Mitrovica: In addition to the ban on dinars, residents also worried about the shortage of certain products (Kosovo Online)
• Residents of Strpce: Without the dinar, life hard for both the people and the merchants (Kosovo Online)
• A forest owned by Serbs burned down in Susica, they suspect arson (KoSSev, KiM radio, Radio Mitrovica sever)
• Borrell condemned the attacks by bots from Kosovo on Djordje Bojovic, Viola von Cramon's assistant (NMagazin, Beta)
UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, August 1, 2024
UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, July 31, 2024
Albanian Language Media:
• Kurti: During the war in Kosovo, Serbia's strategy was to hide the crime (RTK)
• Election date to be known today? Osmani to meet leaders of political parties in afternoon (Telegrafi)
• Bislimi: Cooperation with Sinani will be inseparable (RTK)
• KIJ: Kurti and Bislimi did not have proactive approach to report to Assembly about dialogue (Klan)
• UK ambassador congratulates "Sunny Hill" team for dealing with global issue of violence against women (Klan)
• Haradinaj: In my time, Radoicic fled from Kosovo, in Kurti's time, he became a factor (ekonomia)
• IRI: Kosovars mostly watch television to get information (Klan)
Serbian Language Media:
• Petkovic: UNESCO's objective assessment about the danger of Serbian monasteries in Kosovo (NMagazin, Beta, Kosovo Online, Kurir)
• Milivojevic: From words to move to deeds, A/CSM should be the first and previous issue (RTS)
• Transfer of Command at KFOR RC-WEST (N1)
• A Serbian citizen arrested at Jarinje on suspicion of possessing forged Kosovo documents (N1, KoSSev, NMagazin)
• SNS official says early elections possible (N1, Beta, TV Pink)
Opinion:
• Under Rama, Albania is failing on almost every score (Balkan Insight)
International:
• Serbia: Fresh protests threaten EU-backed lithium mining plan (euronews.com)
• Balkan Countries Turn Blind Eye to Growing Loneliness (Balkan Insight)
UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, July 30, 2024
Albanian Language Media:
• Varhelyi: Dialogue is the European path of Kosovo and Serbia (media)
• Osmani and Infantino talk about improving sports infrastructure in Kosovo (Albanian Post)
• Specialized Chambers to reconsider reduction of sentence against Salih Mustafa (Koha)
• Constitution of the investigative committee for school textbooks fails (Reporteri)
• Selmanaj: Kurti not worried about miners, but about election results (RTK)
• Tahiri to Kurti: Enough with promenades in Paris, deal with Trepca’s unpaid miners (media)
• Kurti: Dear migrants, we welcome you today in "Skenderbeu" square in Pristina (Klan)
Serbian Language Media:
• Djuric: Dialogue with Pristina challenging, we are proud to be Cyprus’s true friends (Tanjug, RTS)
• Varhelyi: Negotiations on Cluster 3 with Serbia should be opened (Radio Mitrovica sever, Tanjug)
• Srdjan Lazovic's detention extended for another two months (Radio Mitrovica Sever, Kosovo Online)
• Haxhiu: Serb policeman shot dead on eve of lithium contract signing, near planned mine site (KoSSev)
• KFOR: We carefully monitor all relevant security developments in Kosovo (Kosovo Online, Tanjug)
• Rakocevic: UNESCO protection important; establishing Kosovo's cultural heritage not possible (Kosovo Online)
• “No to Rio Tinto – we want clean air, water”: Protests against lithium mining in Serbia (N1)
International:
• EU’s endorsement of lithium mining will further tarnish its reputation in Serbia (EWB)
UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, July 29, 2024
Albanian Language Media:
• Kosovo receives a loan from Saudi Fund for Pristina - Mitrovica road (media)
• Murati accuses Constitutional Court of delay in publishing full verdict on Law on minimum wage (media)
• LVV MPs call "illegal" meetings of Investigative Committee without presence of head and deputy head (media)
• Albania's FM: Bosnia should reassess its approach to Kosovo (RTK)
• Head of "Friends of America" Association: Political relations with U.S. "cracked" (media)
• Szunyog: Proud to be supporting the next generation (RTK)
• Mustafi: EU report states that Vucevic's Serbia is on a reverse path (RTK)
• NGO "Voice of Roma, Ashkali and Egyptians" with demand for 11 municipalities (Klan)
Serbian Language Media:
• Djuric: Serbia has its own position regarding Kosovo and military neutrality, this is not in question (Kosovo Online, Novosti)
• Petkovic: As a result of Kurti’s terror, 15 percent of Serbs left northern Kosovo (Kosovo Online, Politika, Danas)
• Rada Trajkovic: The condition for Macron's arrival is the arrest of Radoicic (Beta, NMagazin, N1, media)
• Vucic met Botsan-Kharchenko (Tanjug, media)
International:
• Kosovo man given life sentence for femicide in retrial (Prishtina Insight)
UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, July 26, 2024
Albanian Language Media:
Two vehicles belonging to Zvecan municipality set on fire (Koha)
Kosovo marks Memorial Day for police officers killed on duty (Koha)
Union of RTK Workers reacts to developments at public broadcaster (Nacionale)
EU Council appoints new Special Representative for Kosovo (media)
Haxhiu: From now violators will be monitored with electronic bracelets (EO)
Kurti: Honor to sit among world leaders hosted by IOC President (media)
Serbian Language Media:
Radosavljevic: Pristina engaged in forced integration of territory, not integration of population in the north (Kosovo Online)
Former KIA chief inspector claims Svecla did not pass security verification, run away from Gazivode when shooting occurred (KoSSev)
Two vehicles of Zvecan municipality torched last night (KoSSev)
D.D. sent to one month detention (Radio KIM)
Vucic: Macron to visit Belgrade within next fifty days (Tanjug)
Kosovo in June imported goods worth 500 million euros, exported 73 million (Kosovo Online)
Opinion:
Montenegro needs to right itself, now (media)
International:
Kosovo public broadcaster’s director quits over controversial article (BIRN)
New EU Spec. Rep. for BiH, the Great Lakes Region, Kosovo*, and the South Caucasus and the crisis in Georgia, and the mandates of three others extended (consilium.europea.eu)