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UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, December 7, 2022

• Osmani: Criminal gangs trying to destabilise Kosovo (media) • Kurti: Kosovo government doesn’t bargain or tolerate criminal gangs (media) • Svecla: Election officials and police were attacked with shock bombs (media) • Police: No one injured during incidents; election offices demolished (media) • Explosions heard in Serb majority areas in Kosovo, no injuries reported (Reuters) • Citaku about developments in north: Govt keeping us in the dark (media) • Haradinaj to Kurti: Do you want to endanger the north at any cost? (media) • Radoniqi: Elections cannot be held by force (media) • PDK candidate for Zubin Potok says he received threat in Serbian (T7) • EU drafts new proposal for Kosovo-Serbia ties - senior EU diplomat (Reuters) • US Special Envoy Escobar to visit Kosovo on Monday (Kosovapress) • State Department Counselor to visit Kosovo this week, sources say (Nacionale) • “One sentence” is blocking resolution of fate of forcibly disappeared (AP) • European Commission admits mistakenly asking Montenegro and North Macedonia to issue visas to Kosovo (Prishtina Insight) • Heritage heist: Kosovo, Serbia fight over ‘loaned’ museum exhibits (BIRN) • Solidarity Stories #6: Serb Monastery Shelters Kosovo Albanians (BIRN) • Love divided: Kosovar-Serbian Couple Struggle to Build a Home in Disapproving Society (Prishtina Insight)

UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, December 6, 2022

• EU to ask Kosovo and Serbia for concrete progress on final agreement (Koha) • McKee: U.S. partnership with Kosovo, stronger than ever (KTV) • Kurti meets USAID Assistant Administrator McKee (media) • Kurti to meet Lajcak in Pristina today (media) • Lajcak meets Vucic in Belgrade (media) • Michel: Progress is being made on visa liberalisation for Kosovo (media) • Host Albania has high hopes for EU-Western Balkans summit (AP) • Serbian President Will Attend EU-Balkan Summit in Tirana (BIRN) • Bajrami reacts to EU asking Montenegro and North Macedonia to introduce visas for Kosovo (media) • Bislimi to report on dialogue and French-German plan today (media) • Police, CEC municipal officials will go to offices in north today (Koha) • Albanian chased by several masked persons in north of Kosovo (media) • Dejan Jankovic could become head of Kosovo Police (Albanian Post)

UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, December 5, 2022

• Kurti: Agreement with Serbia will not be easy (media) • Four policemen suspended for case of murder of pregnant woman (RTK) • Kurti: Institutional mobilization against domestic violence (media) • Bicycle march in Pristina, to oppose violence against women and girls (KP) • Osmani and Szunyog, coordinate for EU - Western Balkans Summit (media) • Rama is confident that Vucic will attend summit in Tirana (Koha) • Lajcak to meet today with the Serbian president in Belgrade (media) • Serbia’s president won’t attend summit over spat with Kosovo (euronews) • Jevtic: Serbs in south could withdraw from institutions too (media) • Minister reacts to claims that budget focused on VV-led municipalities (media) • Krasniqi: PDK becomes a full member of ALDE (RTK) • Kosovo veteran leaders appeal for release from all charges (BIRN) • Kosovo football federation complains to FIFA about “racist insults and calls” (RFE) • Why India doesn’t recognise Kosovo’s statehood, despite new Kosovan trade office in Delhi (The Post)

UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, December 2, 2022

• Escobar confident that agreement on Association will be implemented (media) • Lajcak: If parties committed, agreement can be reached within weeks (media) • Lajcak will visit Kosovo and Serbia next week (Kanal10) • Osmani: Membership in EU and NATO, pillar of peace and stability (media) • Kurti to Pack: Kosovo to apply to the EU this month (media) • Kurti: Entire chain of irresponsibility must resign (media) • Haxhiu: Ready to resign if my responsibility for murder case is proved (teve1) • UNMIK chief stands in solidarity with the women of Kosovo, calling for an end to gender violence (KosovaPress) • ‘Resignation isn’t enough’: protest after murder of pregnant woman (Euronews) • Vucic says he will not attend EU-Western Balkans summit in Tirana (media) • “Vucic’s hysteria is failed attempt to true reasons for refusing summit” (media) • Hasani argues Rasic’s appointment violates the Constitution (Koha) • PDK leader Krasniqi meets Viola von Cramon (media) • Kosovo’s Low-Quality TV Debates Deter Real Experts (Prishtina Insight)

UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, December 1, 2022

• EU Council agrees negotiating mandate on visa free travel (media) • Kurti: We need 2-3 months for normalisation of relations with Serbia (N1) • Rohde: Kurti is no longer in opposition; form the Association (Klan Kosova) • Resigned Kosovo Serb police must reapply for old posts, Kurti says (BIRN) • Osmani meets institutional leaders of Bulgaria (media) • Lajcak reported on dialogue before EP Foreign Affairs Committee (RTK) • EU to discuss granting visa permits to Kosovo passport holders (euronews) • Judges, prosecutors, cancel court sessions in Kosovo over pay cuts (BIRN) • Protest to be held in Pristina today after killing of woman (media) • Most Kosovo Serbs gloomy about country’s future, survey shows (BIRN) • Kosovo Special Court rejects Thaci request for early defense testimonies (BIRN) • This is what a textbook is teaching young Serbs about the Balkan wars (RFE)