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UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, May 3, 2024

Albanian Language Media:
• Osmani meets Hovenier: EU’s measures are unfair and must be removed (media)
• Stano: EU decides on lifting of measures, not government of Kosovo (media)
• Government reacts: De-escalation took place, measures must be lifted (media)
• Zulfaj: By not lifting measures against Kosovo, EU loses credibility (RTK)
• British Parliament approved Alicia Kearns' motion for Kosovo (media)
• Reporters without Borders latest report on Kosovo (media)
• Kurti’s “digital army” on the frontline against reporters (RFE)
• Bajqinovci: Serbia is training 400 extremists in Kopaonik (KTV)
• Ministry changes article on marriage, doesn’t say when govt will vote on it (Koha)

Serbian Language Media:
• Parliament elects new Serbian Government (Tanjug)
• Stano: Serbian Government expected to show commitment to EU (N1)
• Stano: EU members, not Kosovo politicians, decide on abolition of punitive measures (Kosovo Online, KoSSev)
• SRSG Ziadeh meets Bishop Teodosije in Gracanica (Kosovo Online, social media)
• Kosovo Assembly on State Department report, opposition harshly criticized government over corruption (KoSSev, Radio KIM)

UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, May 2, 2024

Albanian Language Media:
• For successful vote, Germany asks Kosovo to take decisive step on Association (Koha)
• Bakoyannis: No candidate has been asked for so many reforms (media)
• Gervalla: Kosovo has met all conditions for membership in CoE (media)
• Bislimi in Switzerland discusses CoE membership and dialogue (Reporteri)
• Biserko on Kosovo at CoE: Positive for Serbs in Kosovo (media)
• Kurti calls on SPO to charge criminals who committed genocide during war (media)
• Kurti: With powerful unions, tendencies of oligarchic employers are repelled (media)

Serbian Language Media:
• Serbian Parliament hears PM-designate’s program, discusses new Government (N1, media)
• Vucevic: Defending Serbia's sovereignty to be our biggest challenge (Tanjug)
• Serbian officials slam Bakoyannis remarks on CoE and Kosovo (Tanjug, media, social media)
• US disappointed with nomination of sanctioned individuals as ministers (VoA, N1)
• Petkovic reacts to Kurti’s BBC interview, says the only one belonging to last century is Kurti (Kosovo Online)
• KoSSev: Kosovo Union protest demanding social dialogue and wages increase, Kurti with lessons from history and praises of system (BETA)
International Media:
• Bakoyannis: Everyone was aware of my special ties with the Serbian people (European Western Balkans)
• Boys Preferred: Sex-Selective Abortion Still Happening in the Balkans (Balkan Insight)

UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, April 30, 2024

Albanian Language Media:
• Scholz call with Kurti, support and highlights importance of dialogue (media)
• Osmani thanks MEPs: You were true champions of our people (media)
• Kurti meets Italian MPs, thanks them for Italy’s support for Kosovo (media)
• EU: Lack of political will, reason why implementation of agreement failed (RTK)
• EU sees next meeting on dinar as last chance for solution (RFE)
• Guerot: Concrete steps on Association if Kosovo wants to join CoE (media)

Serbian Language Media:
• Vucic: Belgrade faces diplomatic battles (N1, Tanjug, media)
• Vucic speaks with Prince Albert II of Monaco (Tanjug)
• Stano: Lajcak did not fail (N1, FoNet)
• Dacic: Serbia to get new government over the holidays (N1, BETA)
• Serbian List says Radomirovic is “informant of Kosovo police, betrays Serbs who are then arrested and persecuted” (Kosovo Online)
• One more person arrested in relation to attack on Serbs in Bosniak Mahala (KoSSev)
• Surveillance cameras installed on a crossroad near Technical School in Mitrovica North (Radio KIM)

UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, April 29, 2024

Albanian Language Media:
• Kusari-Lila: Association draft to court, not a condition before vote at Committee of Ministers (EO)
• Knaus shares part of Kurt's speech in Berlin: He said he cannot impose QUINT draft statute on Serbs (Albanian Post)
• Martens: Berlin, Paris intend to postpone vote for CoE membership (Albanian Post)
• Haxhiu: CoE membership paves way for justice for war crimes (media)
• Kryeziu reacts to SL: Cameras in north are in service of public security (media)
• “Nearly 900,000 citizens registered so far, Serbs in north remain hesitant” (Klan)
• Tahiri: Kurti to explain why Serbia remains unpunished even after Banjska (EO)

Serbian Language Media:
• Two Serbs beaten up in Bosniak mahala, Mitrovica North, three Albanians arrested (Tanjug, N1, media)
• Three Albanians arrested, two more identified and one looked for, in relation to attack against Serb young man in Mitrovica North (KoSSev, media)
• Lawyer: Bosniak arrested at Brnjak crossing point over alleged war crimes sent to one-month detention (Kosovo Online)
• Kosovo police started installing security cameras in Mitrovica North, Serbian List demands their removal (KoSSev, media)
• Will holders of “second class“ travel documents, who cannot obtain Kosovo ones, finally get good news? (KoSSev)
• Vucic: Good discussion with Ashton about Serbia's future, place in world (Tanjug)
• Pahor preparing new proposal for Pristina-Belgrade dialogue (N1)
• Serbia to receive €1.6 billion from EU’s Growth Plan for Western Balkans (N1, RTS)
• Kurti surprised with State Department’s report on human rights in Kosovo (N1, BETA)

UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, April 26, 2024

Albanian Language Media: