• President Osmani on education strike: We must find acceptable solution (media) • Kosovo teachers strike on first day of new school year (BIRN) • Hovenier welcomes smooth start of implementation on free movement (media) • Rama in Belgrade: Open Balkan is a project of peace (Kosovapress) • Kosovo opens free trade negotiations with EFTA countries (RTK) • AAK reacts to LDK leader Abdixhiku’s remarks (Telegrafi) • Energy production is doubled, power cuts are stopped (Koha) • Kosovo and Albania hail launch of unified children’s primer (BIRN)

• Reciprocity on ID cards begins (Koha Ditore/Kosovapress/RFE) • Serbia Reminds Kosovo: ID Cards Deal Doesn’t Imply Recognition (BIRN) • Why Ethnic Tensions Are Flaring Again in Northern Kosovo (Reuters) • President Osmani meets Czech PM Minister, discuss visa liberalisation (media) • Krasniqi: Kosovo in direst situation in the postwar period (media) • Haradinaj to Kurti: Stop or you will be stopped! (media) • Haziri: Serbia is indirectly recognizing Kosovo (Klan Kosova) • Serbia: Army at high state preparedness along border with Kosovo (Telegrafi) • Turkish, Hungarian senior officials to attend next Open Balkans meeting (Klan)

Escobar: European integration, only alternative for Western Balkans (Kosovapress) Gervalla: We are not asking for privileges or shortcuts to join EU (media) Opposition leaders want Kurti to focus on final settlement, not technical issues (RFE) Kosovo protesters demand action after rape of 11-year-old (BIRN) Kosovo Police Director resigns (media) Dugolli: GDP rising, but talks with Serbia at an impasse (The Washington Diplomat) Slovenia appoints Anzej Franges, emissary for the Western Balkans (RTK) Tuhina: Now the pressure can be directed towards Kosovo (RTK) Kosovo Urged to Take ‘Inclusive Approach’ to War Memorialisation (BIRN)

Borrell: Issue of license plates, more difficult to resolve (RFE) Kosovo-Serbia deal on IDs raises implementation question, expert says (BIRN) Recognition of documents does not mean Serbia has recognised Kosovo (Koha) PDK leader Krasniqi says no to PM Kurti’s invitation to meet (media) LDK leader Abdixhiku agrees to meet PM Kurti on dialogue (media) Escobar: Vucic committed to regional stability; good will from both sides (media) East and West clash in a proxy conflict over Serbia, President Vucic says (Reuters) It’s Never Too Late to Find the Kosovo War’s Missing Persons (BIRN) Kosovo leaders call for deserved punishment for raping of minor girl (media)

Borrell: Deal reached on freedom of movement between Kurti and Vucic (media) Borrell: If no agreement, there could’ve been a crisis on Sept 1 in north (media) Osmani: Freedom of movement, foundation of democratic societies (media) Kurti: Reciprocity is spirit of principled and just solution (media) NATO SG welcomes agreement on free movement (media) Kurti: Full reciprocity until agreement on mutual recognition is reached (Kallxo) Kurti’s warning for a government reshuffle seen as an urgency (Koha) Kurti: Energy price always on the rise; we need to save (Telegrafi) COVID-19: 89 new cases, two deaths (media)