Albanian Language Media: • Borrell: We discussed how to build a more united Europe together (media) • EU foreign ministers to meet Western Balkans counterparts on June 24 (media) • Sources: France and Italy against full removal of measures (Koha) • Murati: 5.6% economic growth in the first quarter of the year (media) • Gervalla: Kosovo and Portugal hold their first Economic Forum in Pristina (media) • Clinton Center publishes photo with Kosovo children, families in June ’99 (media) • Citaku: Sexual violence was used as weapon of war by Serbia (media) • Hoxhaj: Letter of EU leaders is a new veto for Kosovo (Telegrafi) • Kurti expresses support for Montenegro’s Democratic Party of Socialists (media) • Serwer: Dodik and Vucic could attempt an attack like Banjska in Bosnia (media) Serbian Language Media: • Vucic asked Macron to stand by Serbia on the road to preserving peace (RTS, Tanjug, Kosovo Online) • Vucic: With Hecker about the security situation in the country and the region, especially in Kosovo (Kosovo Online, Tanjug) • Mijacic on the possible opening of the Ibar bridge: We are entering a new period of crisis (Kosovo Online) • Petkovic: “Shameless lies of Osmani, 200.000 Serbs expelled from Kosovo, new ethnic cleansing in place” (media, social media) • Milenkovic’s defence: Witness excluded existence of an act that could be qualified as crime (Radio KIM) • Special prosecution dropped criminal prosecution of Rade Basara, defendant in Oliver Ivanovic’s murder case (media) • Austria’s FM: No shortcuts in Belgrade-Pristina dialogue (Beta, N1) • Gashi: The goal of cooperation between Pristina and Sarajevo another UN resolution against Serbia (Kosovo Online) Opinion: • Iber river bridge: From symbol of division to a symbol of coexistence (Koha) • EU voters are normalising the far right (Kosovo 2.0) International: • Serbia fans in Munich chant anti-Kosovo slogans (Reuters) • Romanian President withdraws NATO bid, clearing final hurdle for Rutte (RFE) • Serbia urged to recognise wartime sexual violence victims (BIRN) • Pro-Russian Telegram channels push Kremlin’s line in Balkans (BIRN)

Albanian Language Media: • Kurti and Vucic to meet on June 26 in Brussels (RFE) • Sources: No agreement in EU on full removal of measures (Koha) • Rohde: Measures should be removed; it is in the hands of member states (EO) • Borrell travels to Austria to advance EU – Western Balkans relations (media) • Albanians and most Serbs support opening of Iber bridge (RTV21) • Konjufca: Banjska, blow against cooperation, stability, security in region (media) Serbian Language Media: • Djuric: The dialogue in a coma; the new arrests of Serbs threw gloves in the face of the USA and the EU (RTS, media) • Detention ordered for a Serb from Zvecan arrested yesterday on the Bistrica Bridge (RTS, Kosovo Online, media) • Lawyer: I hope L.D. would be released, strange he got arrested after a year and so (Kosovo Online) • Office for KiM: Arrest of Serb at Bistrica bridge is Kurti's attempt to provoke new crisis (media) • Serbian List: If innocent Serbs are arrested, because of what Kurti deserved lifting of punitive measures (Kosovo Online, media) • A decade since the creation of the Peace Park on the Ibar Bridge, new fears for Serbs (Kosovo Online) International: • Anti-corruption fight in Balkans sees progress, but also regression: report (BIRN) • Growing diaspora vote becomes game-changer in Balkan elections (BIRN)

Albanian Language Media: • Sources: Borrell recommends lifting of EU measures against Kosovo (RFE) • Kurti: In 1998-99, Serbia used sexual violence as weapon of war in Kosovo (media) • U.S. is committed to supporting victims and survivors of CRSV (media) • Maqedonci: Kosovo determined to join NATO (media) • Lajcak meets international community representatives in Kosovo (media) • Citaku: PDK is ready for new elections (media) • Bogujevci, Perestrello talk Kosovo’s membership in intl organisations (media) • Kurti travelled to Hamburg following invitation by Sarrazin (Klan Kosova) Serbian Language Media: • Lajcak appreciates reports of international community in Kosovo about situation on ground (Kosovo Online) • Lajcak: My work continues; I am confident the CSM will be established, we have considered red lines of both sides (Kosovo Online) • Petkovic: Pristina misuses sexual violence victims for daily political purposes (Radio KIM) • Odalovic: 567 Serbs are still listed as missing (Radio KIM) • The strengthening of the right not a good signal for the region's membership in the EU, and the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina (Kosovo Online, VoA) • Darko Tanaskovic: Border changes in the Balkans as a distant possibility not impossible (N1, NMagazin, Danas) • UEFA fines Albanian Football Federation (Kosovo Online, media) International: • Crosetto: NATO intervention in Kosovo, pillar of peace and democracy in world (Nova) • Unconnected: Kosovo’s health information system remains ‘forgotten promise’ (BIRN)

Albanian Language Media: •    Kurti: I don’t think I should speculate over speculations (media) •    Pacolli: We’ve heard from EU that lifting of measures has been foreseen (media) •    Lajcak arrives in Pristina, scheduled to meet Osmani, Kurti and Bislimi (media) •    Osmani: Unwavering commitment to lasting and just peace in Ukraine (media) •    Kurti shares British reporter’s story who recorded attack on Jashari family (media) •    Lajcak: We have a new momentum, which should not be missed (media) •    UN Special Rapporteur publishes report from visit to Kosovo and Serbia (media) •    Aliu gives details on construction of Pristina-Durres railway (media) •    Kosovo to hand over to Serbia remains of three persons killed during war (RFE) •    Prizren to host biggest cycling festival in Kosovo this weekend (media) •    Klinaku: Kurti govt worked against veterans; we will protest (media) •    KSC issues final warning to Nasim Haradinaj re. his media contacts (media) •    UEFA initiates disciplinary proceedings against Serbia (media) Serbian Language Media: •    Vucic meets Jenca, discusses situation in Kosovo, necessity to establish CSM (Kosovo Online) •    Djuric meets SRSG Ziadeh, says dialogue at stalemate because of Pristina (Kosovo Online, social media) •    PM Vucevic with Lajcak: Time for Europe to give a clear signal (N1) •    Lajcak says he discussed with Vucevic Belgrade-Pristina dialogue, EU relations with Serbia (RTS) •    Dacic called on the organisers to cancel the "Mirdita, Dobar dan" festival (KiM radio) •    A land parcel and field of Ilija Draskovic usurped in Kosovo Polje, one of usurpers threatened him with death (Radio KIM) •    The remains of three Serbian civilians killed in 1999 handed over at Merdare (KiM radio) Opinion: •    Mutual recognition between Serbia and Kosovo: How do we get there? (IDN) •    Serbia’s new intelligence chief will guard Vucic’s ‘captured’ state (BIRN) International: •    Reporter reflects “25 years after Kosovo’s secession from state of Serbia” (BBC) •    UEFA opens disciplinary proceedings, prove over Serbian fact actions at Euro 2024 (RFE) •    UEFA open disciplinary probe against Albania FA after Euro 2024 match (DPA International, MSN)

Albanian Language Media: •    State Department: Long-term U.S. policy is mutual recognition (Express) •    Rohde recalls 'Scholz’s clear statement during visits to Kosovo and Serbia’ (media) •    Bajrami: Without mutual recognition, there can be no normalisation (media) •    State Department comments on declaration of All-Serbian Assembly (media) •    De Riu: Opening Iber bridge has "political and electoral purposes" (media) •    Investigation of war crimes; Svecla, Haxhiu meet senior police officers (Kallxo) •    Government ministers, MPs help clean shores of lake in north Kosovo (media) •    Kurti: Walker is among Kosovo’s greatest friends (media) •    Sources: “Shabani wanted BIA to act faster, stronger in Kosovo” (Express) •    Arifi: “Elections in October; increase in public sector wages in summer” (media) Serbian Language Media: •    Petkovic says 150 Serb families to be evicted from their apartments in the north by Kosovo Verification Agency: "Ethnic cleansing continues" (Kosovo Online, RTS) •    Petkovic: Shameful and anti-civilized decision of Pristina to ban goods from central Serbia (Tanjug) •    People in the north, Strpce on Serbian goods import ban (Kosovo Online) •    Gracanica residents: "We buy what we must" - dissatisfaction with quality and prices of available goods (Kosovo Online) •    Shahini: Serbs affected the most with goods import ban, Albanians were buying those goods also (Kosovo Online) •    Gogic: Ban on Serbian goods an illegal measure violating human rights (media) •    Vucic meets with Sarrazin (Tanjug, Kosovo Online) •    Stano on banning the import of Serbian goods: Refrain from unilateral steps (KiM radio) Opinion: •    Qirezi: “All-Serbian Assembly is a shameful return to the 1990s” (Koha) International: •    Kosovo ‘child of war’ wins competition to rebuild war-destroyed school in Ukraine (Prishtina Insight) •    Suffering in silence: The horrors of giving birth in Kosovo state hospitals (BIRN) •    People are convinced Tony Blair statue unveiled in Kosovo is Jason Donovan (The Independent)