• Kurti for Le Monde: EU plan enables the de-facto recognition (media) • Kurti meets Borrell, Lajcak; talk EU proposal and meet with Vucic (Telegrafi) • Borrell optimistic for February 27 meeting, hopes parties will accept plan (DW) • Osmani: Peace and security sustainable only when women included in all decision-making and policy-making processes (media) • Blinken: Normalisation of Kosovo-Serbia relations essential to strengthen security in the Balkans (RFE) • Osmani meets Admiral Munch at Munich Security Conference (media) • Kurti meets INTERPOL Secretary General: Kosovo is a reliable partner (media) • Gervalla: All countries to seriously address threats to international order (media) • Lekaj: Kurti must not accept Association with executive competencies (Nacionale) • Newborn monument dedicated to threat to Republic’s future (BIRN) • Djuric’s statement triggers reactions in Kosovo (Koha)

• Kurti: There is work to turn EU proposal into an agreement (DW, media) • Biden congratulates on 15th anniversary of Independence, mentions mutual recognition with Serbia (media) • European leaders congratulate Osmani on Independence Day (Koha) • Kurti hosted candidate for president of Serbia, Nikola Sandulovic (RTK) • Sandulovic: I came to offer historic solutions (RTK) • Kurti: Kosovo, common state of all (media) • Independent Kosovo is a success story. Now we need a European epilogue (Politico.eu) • Kosovo marks 15 uneasy years of independence from Serbia (The Independent) • North Kosovo won’t be stable while Belgrade and Pristina are at loggerheads (BIRN) • Kosovo: How football helps build bridges (Deutsche Welle) • Kosovo Women’s 1990s Fight for Freedom Documented on Film (BIRN) • Study Shows Therapy Benefits Mothers Exposed to Violence in Kosovo War (BIRN) • Serbian nationalists protest against Western plan to normalise ties with breakaway Kosovo (euronews.com)

Kurti: No full normalisation of relations without mutual recognition (RFE) Kurti: French-German plan foresees de facto recognition by Serbia (media) EU: We are ready to mediate discussions on Association (RFE) Students march against Association of Serb-majority municipalities (BIRN) Kosovo government discusses expropriation with local residents in north (RFE) Abdixhiku lists “Kurti’s failures and deceptions” (Gazeta Express) Albanian President Begaj to visit Kosovo today (media) Serwer: Ugly diplomacy in the Balkans (media) Price talks about the objective of the U.S. in Kosovo and Serbia (media)

• Varhelyi: EC ready to work on Kosovo's application for membership (media) • Colomina meets Kurti: NATO supports plan proposed by the EU (media) • Colomina: NATO Strategic Concept reaffirmed WB strategic importance (EWB) • The implementation plan of the European plan (Dukagjini) • Lehne: I’m not optimistic about EU plan for Kosovo and Serbia (RFE) • Mehaj: Kosovo ready to host 5,000 Ukrainian refugees (media) • Pristina University students to march against Association today (Kosovapress) • Gap between debt and surplus fuels suspicions about health fund mismanagement (BIRN) • Biden writes to Vucic: Good that you supported the European proposal (media)

• US hopeful over Kosovo-Serbia agreement, Vucic not convinced (Euractiv) • Why Kosovo's stand-off with Serbs goes on 15 years after statehood (Reuters) • Kurti: Destruction of illegal drug labs, clear victory for rule of law (media) • Kurti and Guerot discuss French-German proposal (media) • Osmani and Wigemark discuss recent developments in north of Kosovo (media) • Kurti: KSF search and rescue team saved three people in Turkey so far (media) • Serbian products faced with boycott in Kosovo (Radio Free Europe) • COMKFOR Ristuccia meets Kosovo’s religious leaders (media) • An accord would close down the Balkan issue (Albanian Daily News)