STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS • Joksimovic: Key and more dynamic phase of negotiations with the EU (RTS) • McAllister: Real job starts for Serbia (Danas) • Lopandic: Draft resolution on Kosovo unbalanced (Tanjug) • Vucic: We are crawling in the dark (Tanjug) • Prime Minister to give us information on Panda case (B92) STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS • Agreement on cooperation between SIPA and Ministry of Interior of RS will be reviewed (Novo vrijeme) • Contract on the border of B&H with Montenegro ratified (Klix.ba) RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES • IS uses weapons exported to Britain from Serbia and Bosnia (newzy.net) • EU concern after Bosnia's Serbs suspend police co-operation (BBC News) • Western Balkans: EU blindspot on Russian propaganda (EUobserver) • Dayton Ain’t Going Nowhere (Foreign Policy) • Bosnia’s impaired peace may not last (Al Jazeera)

STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS • Committee for Kosovo and Metohija adopts report on progress in Belgrade-Pristina dialogue (Tanjug) • DSS, DPS: Chapter 35 path to recognition of Kosovo (Beta) • Islamic State graffiti in Zubin Potok (Tanjug/TV Most) • Serbia, welcome to Chapter 35 (Politika) STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS • Vucic: We follow the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Srna) • Dodik: SIPA could have caused an armed conflict (Srna) • Salkic: Government and National Assembly instigate armed conflict (Vijesti.ba) • Lukac: RS Interior Ministry not a criminal organization to be searched in such manner (Srna) • RS Prime Minister invites High Representative to remove her from the office (Fena) • Izetbegovic: RS has no right to act this way (Bosna danas) • Foreign officials: Powers of state institutions must not be challenged (Fena) RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES • EU and Serbia to begin membership talks on December 14 (dpa) • Serbia to complete EU reforms by 2019: PM (Xinhua) • Bosnia Arrests Five for Bosanski Novi War Crimes (BIRN)

STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS • Vucic: We want to complete everything by end of 2019 (RTS) • Hahn: We are opening chapters on Monday (B92/Beta) • Gojkovic talks with Hahn (Tanjug) • Djuric: Opening of chapters excellent news for Kosovo Serbs (RTS) • Dikovic asks KFOR to engage more in non-Albanian areas (Novosti) • Court for KLA crimes in Pristina (Blic) STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS • Government and all institutions of RS terminated all cooperation with the B&H Court, Prosecutor’s Office and State Investigation and Protection Agency (Nezavisne) • B&H Court rejects the prosecution’s motion for custody of Sakib Mahmuljin (Srna) • Legal aggression on B&H is taking place via intelligence-security agencies of Serbia (Klix.ba) • Why have U.S. agents arrived in B&H? (Nezavisne) • Izetbegovic in Brussels: We will resolve Croatian question in the first half of 2016 (Klix.ba) • Attaché for Security of the U.S. Embassy visited Ministry of Interior of CS (Novo vrijeme) RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES • Thousands removed from Macedonia border camps after being rumbled for NOT being refugees (Daily Express) • Bosnian Serbs say to halt cooperation with state police, court (Reuters) • MEPs to Tell Montenegro to Protect Journalists (BIRN) • Belgrade Waterfront: an unlikely place for Gulf petrodollars to settle (The Guardian)

STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS • Former employees of Serbian Interior Ministry in Kosovo on hunger strike (RTS/Tanjug) • Dacic: No textbooks from Kosovo and Albania (Beta) • Cadez: Focus on concrete cooperation (Tanjug) • Jevtic: Attacks in Kosovo and Metohija aimed at killing, not intimidating (B92) • Hahn: Opening of chapters a moment for celebration (RTS) • Dabic: Returnees from fronts pose significant threat to region (Danas) STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS • Protocol on Cooperation between B&H and Serbia signed (Faktor.ba) • Izetbegovic and Covic in Brussels: The European future of B&H after Dayton (Srna) • Covic and Stoltenberg: Cooperation between B&H and NATO intensifies (Bosna danas) • B&H’s visa regime not threatened (Oslobodjenje) • Government’s stance on the Republika Srpska day decision by the Constitutional Court (Srna) RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES • Kosovo hampers Serbia’s progress towards the EU (Global Risks Insights) • Wartime Bosnian commander arrested for crimes by Islamic fighters (Reuters) • Bosnian Serb President’s Mladic Testimony Challenged (BIRN) • NATO Moves Forward with Montenegro (the-American-interest.com)

STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS • UNMIK Head Zahir Tanin condemns violence in Gorazdevac (Tanjug/RTS/B92) • Stojanovic: Almost nothing happens by accident in Kosovo (RTS) • Maric: There must be will to punish perpetrators (RTS) • Fear has become life (Politika) • McAllister’s report on Serbia’s progress presented (Novosti) STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS • What has Dodik said at the trial of Ratko Mladic? (Klix.ba) • B&H general arrested for war crimes (Bosna danas) • SDA strongly condemns this morning’s arrest of Sakib Mahmuljin (Dnevni avaz) • Macedonia: Terror suspects were "defending against police" (Telma TV/Time.mk) RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES • While PM remains silent on Debono Grech, Serbia PM fires minister over sexist remark (The Malta Independent) • Bosnia Parties Edge Towards Deal on Mostar (BIR)