Albanian Language Media: • EC: No problem with regulation, but how it was done (Gazeta Express) • Konjufca assures U.S. there won’t be unrest over Dinar decision (Kallxo) • Court sentences Kosovo Serb to 13 years in prison for war crimes in 1999 (media) • Police, prosecution with action against parallel structures in Peja region (media) • IMC draft law seen as attack against news websites (Koha) • AmCham: Kosovo to free itself from discourse of conflict and instability (RTK) • Unknown persons removed table set up by Ministry in Zubin Potok (media) • Haradinaj: Kosovo’s main objective is NATO membership (media) Serbian Language Media: • Vucic: Serbia demands a session of the Security Council, letters to the EU, Russia, and China on Monday (N1) • The police harassed the team of Radio Gorazdevac (KiM radio, Radio Gorazdevac) • Revolted by the police action, young people gathered in the center of Osojane (KiM radio) • Serbian List: The raid of armed special forces in three Metohija municipalities another proof of ethnic cleansing (Radio Mitrovica sever, Kosovo Online) • Office for KiM: Closure of Serbian municipalities in Metohija, continuation of ethnic cleansing and extermination of Serbs (Kosovo Online) • After Pec and Istok, the police raided the premises of the Provisional Authority of the Municipality of Klina (Kosovo Online, Danas) • Gorazdevac: KP raided the facility of the Provisional Authority of the Municipality of Pec (Kosovo Online, Radio Gorazdevac, media) • Osojane: Kosovo Police special forces raided Provisional Authority of the Municipality of Istok, the post office and the ambulance (KiM radio, media) • Dusko Arsic sentenced to 13 years in prison (RTS, media) • Lawyer Vlajic: This verdict destroys everyone's hope of getting justice in Kosovo (KiM radio) • Shahini: The government should respect the Kosovo Constitution, but also the Serbs who have dinar accounts (Kosovo Online) • Andjelkovic (Serbian Democracy): Workers of Serbian companies in Kosovo cannot receive money in Kosovo banks (Danas) • EC spokesperson: The solution for the dinar can be found within the dialogue led by the EU (N1)

Albanian Language Media: • Kurti: Constitutionality, legality, decision-making are not negotiable (RTK) • EU asks again Kosovo to resolve dinar issue through dialogue (Klan) • Hoti: We didn’t get answer in Vienna why Serbia not opening archives (Klan) • Svecla and Krasniqi in Mitrovica North : Serbia's threats do not scare us (Koha) • Bislimi: EU should be driving force for Western Balkans as well (RTK) • Gervalla in Germany, discusses cooperation in security field (RTK) • Hamza: There are sufficient funds for defendants in the Hague (EO) • Haradinaj at White House National Security Council (media) • Ramadani: KFOR did not allow Krasniqi to enter Zvecan municipality on Monday (media) • Serbian inscriptions on Albanian houses in Kroi i Vitakut neighborhood (RTK) • Kosovo police remove billboard with Serbian flag in Kroi i Vitakut (Reporteri) • Limaj on opposition: I don’t know if they want to keep Kurti in power (media) Serbian Language Media: • Hill: The Ohrid Agreement does not imply that Serbia recognizes Kosovo (N1, NMagazin, Beta, Bujanovacke) • Vucic to address public tomorrow (Danas, RTS, media) • Vucic: I informed Botsan-Kharchenko about Pristina's latest unilateral move (Tanjug) • Dacic: Kurti's decision to ban dinar undermines dialogue (Tanjug, Kosovo Online, TV Pink) • National Bank of Serbia: There can be no talk of an agreement with the CBK, a solution only through political dialogue (Tanjug, RTV, Kosovo Online) • Prosecution: Two suspects Illegally provided medical services in Pristina (KiM radio, RTS) • Center for Peace and Tolerance (CPT): The action in the Center in Pristina instills fear and endangers the safety of Serbs (KiM radio, Kosovo Online) • Office for Kosovo and Metohija: Detention of health workers exposes the criminal nature of Kurti's regime (N1, NMagazin) • EU concerned over fallout of Kosovo central bank decision (N1) • Kosovo Central Bank: Komercijalna Bank voluntarily stopped operations (Beta, N1) • Serbian DefMin says conscription not about Kosovo (N1, RTS) • KoSSev editor in chief asked Vucic whether he agreed to abolish the dinar in Brussels; Petkovic reacted on X (N1, NMagazin, Kosovo Online) • JUGpress: "EULEX informed about incidents with armed forest thieves, KFOR and the Serbian Army do not respond" (NMagazin) International: • What is (or was) Open Balkan? (Kosovo 2.0)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, January 31, 2024 Albanian Language Media: • Kurti: CBK's decision is non-negotiable (RTK) • Osmani on dinar: Each time we act along with allies, constitution is protected (media) • CBK Board Chairman: Discussion to postpone regulation, no suspension (RFE) • Gervalla meets Germany’s Minister of Defense, discuss security in region (RTK) • Osmani believes CEC will take appropriate actions for dismissal of mayors in north (Koha) • Former minister sentenced to 3 years in prison in “€53 million case” (media) • ICG: If not Association, parties to find other alternatives (Koha) • Haradinaj: Kosovo, its army ready to be NATO member alongside U.S. (media) • Rohde: More ambition is possible and expected (media) • Ministry: Nearly €23 million for attorneys of eight former KLA members (Kallxo) • Radakovic: Only 30% of Serbs that left institutions don’t want to return (KTV) Serbian Language Media: • UNS and DNKiM: Central Bank of Kosovo not to violate right to information in Serbian language; translation provided after reaction (Radio Mitrovica sever, KiM radio) • Lucic: Pristina's action against MTS makes life difficult for Serbs (Radio Mitrovica sever, RTS) • Hill: I support Quint stance on postponing KCB decision (Kosovo Online) • Amendments to laws on citizenship and property: Granting rights to Albanians from southern Serbia or depriving rights of Serbs in Kosovo? (Kosovo Online) • COMKFOR discusses security with Lajcak (N1) • Vucic to meet Quint ambassadors, EU delegation head today (Tanjug) • Rohde: Concern over interference of Kosovo Government in judiciary (Kosovo Online, social media) • Haradinaj: Kosovo should show flexibility in resolving dinar issue (Kosovo Online, media) • MTS security staff staged warning strike in Gracanica (RTS, Radio kontakt plus) • Commercial Bank as of today no longer works in Kosovo (Radio KIM) • Vucevic: “We will never recognize independence of Kosovo, even if not even one of us remains there” (Kosovo Online, Beta, TV Happy) International: • Kosovo ban on Serbian dinar risks new crisis (AFP) • EU envoy urges Kosovo and Serbia to step up normalization efforts before the bloc’s June elections (AP) • Toward Normal Relations between Kosovo and Serbia (ICG) • Kosovo* enters day-ahead market on Albanian Power Exchange (BGEN) • With Billions in Conditional Aid, EU Offers Balkan States ‘Taste’ of Accession (BIRN)

Albanian Language Media: • Central Bank Governor Ismaili meets Hovenier (media) • Woelk: Politics taken towards Kosovo by EU is deeply unfair, unjust (media) • Haradinaj says decision to ban Serbian Dinar in line with EU standards (media) • Baraliu: They’re asking for Serbia to have a say in CBK decisions (KTV) • German Defense Minister to visit Kosovo on February 5 (Gazeta Express) • TI: No political will to give up from interference in judicial affairs (media) • Rohde: Integration of north is important for KOSTT sustainable business (media) • Serwer: Lajcak didn’t say word about Belgrade-sponsored Sept 24 attack (media) • Hoare: Trump return, Serbia’s goals – threat for Kosovo, Western Balkans (media) • Four Serbs suspected of attacking CEC premises in north plead innocent (Koha) • Police in Zvecan find bags with sand, were used for trenches, roadblocks (media) Serbian Language Media: • Vucevic: We are concerned about the military agreement between Pristina and Turkey, we will respond adequately (Danas, Beta) • Serbs to be left without dinar in Kosovo: Can decision be suspended? (Radio KIM) • Dragana Miletic dismissed from the post of vice president of Leposavic municipality (RTK2, RTKlive, Kosovo Online) • Party of Kosovo Serbs demands urgent investigation into events in Leposavic municipal building (Radio KIM) • Thaci's lawyers requested to withdraw from the case (Kosovo Online) • Witnesses at Thaci’s trial: KLA in 1999 kidnapped, mistreated and murdered civilians in Prizren and Podujevo (KoSSev, BETA) • Four Serbs accused of terrorism pleaded not guilty at a preliminary hearing held today (KiM radio) • Lawyer of Milun Milenkovic: It would be fair to approve bail measure (Radio KIM) • Ulutas met the head of UNMIK in Pristina (Kosovo Online) • Mladenovic: Language rights violated in almost all institutions (KiM radio, Radio Gorazdevac) • Serbia drops on the Transparency International CPI (N1) • The Assembly of Serbia constitutive session scheduled for February 6, before the EP votes on the resolution and the Serbian elections (Danas, FoNet) Opinion: • A few words about the course of the struggle against lawlessness: We must fight (KoSSev) International: • Little Change in Balkan Corruption Perceptions Bar Decline in Bosnia (Balkan Insight)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, January 29, 2024 Albanian Language Media: • Hovenier urges enforcement of cash operations regulation be postponed (media) • EU calls on Kosovo to resolve issue of Serbian Dinar through dialogue (Klan) • Mustafa against talks in Brussels about use of Dinar in Kosovo (Gazeta Blic) • EU confirms Lajcak visit to Pristina, “dialogue a key topic” (Reporteri) • Kurti: Kosovo neither forgives nor forgets Serbia’s crimes (Albanian Post) • Kosovo and Türkiye sign military framework agreement (media) • Kastrati: PDK aims to be the leading party in the next elections (media) • AAK calls for extraordinary assembly session on healthcare (Lajmi) • Parallel municipalities that operated illegally in Dragash closed (media) • Kosovo buses pelted with stones while traveling through Serbia (Indeksonline) • Police confiscate 3 hunting rifles, 3 radios and 2 knives in Leposavic (media) • Daughter of Serbian opposition politician pays homage in Prekaz (media) Serbian Language Media: • Vucic meets Lajcak, says it is necessary to establish ZSO, hold elections in northern Kosovo (RTS) • Petkovic: During meeting with Lajcak, Vucic emphasized difficult position of Serbs in Kosovo (Kosovo Online, Tanjug) • SNV: “Hold on a bit Mr. Kurti, put portraits of Djokovic and Krivokapic back, those of Vucic and Djuric we leave to you” (KoSSev) • Vorgucic about Kurti: If someone speaks Serbian and beats you at the same time, it doesn't mean much to us (N1) • What happened to the tent in Leposavic? (KoSSev) • Endangered cultural and historical monuments in Kosovo: Barbed wire does not protect against political games (KoSSev, Insajder, KiM radio) • Spahiu on banned official visits (Kosovo Online) International: • Time is the Enemy for Kosovo’s New War Crimes Institute (BIRN) • Sandulovic’s daughter on being stopped by Serbian agents (Euronews Albania) • Bilčik: The problems of Serbia’s elections can never be resolved inside the EU institutions (EWB) • Talat Xhaferi, Taboo-Breaker who Became North Macedonia’s First Albanian PM (BIRN)