STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS • Vucic: EU membership Serbia’s strategic goal (RTS) • Dacic, Gasic: New stage of relations with NATO (Tanjug) • Gracanica: Unity of Serbs needed more than ever (Radio Serbia) • Drecun: Prosecution to also identify perpetrators of crimes against Serbs (Tanjug) STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS • Decision signed on appointment of new FB&H government (Fena) • Kebo lodges another report against Mahmuljin and Dzaferovic (Nezavisne) • Brammertz: Prosecutors should prove to Serbs they are unbiased (Srna) RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES • Sutorina Crisis: Bosnia losing its closest neighbour, Montenegro (Journal of Turkish Weekly) • Djukanovic Reshuffles his Team in Montenegro (BIRN) • UN rights office urges impartial investigation of Macedonia political figures (Jurist) • Macedonia: Behind the Façade (Al Jazeera)

STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS • Nikolic close to a final version of his platform for Kosovo (Novosti) • Vucic: EU path depends from dialogue with Kosovo Albanians (RTS) • Vulin: Deliberate pogrom against Serbs (Beta) • Former Serbian policemen protest (Beta) • Arrests in Serbia over Srebrenica (B92/Beta/Tanjug) • Weak for the most difficult constitutional dispute (Politika) STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS • B&H Prosecution congratulates Serbian Prosecution (Srna) • Brammertz: Arrests confirmation of regional cooperation (Srna) • Agreement on the joint ministries (Fena) • Brammertz: Finalize transfer of subjects of war crimes from state to cantonal level (Fena) RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES • Suspected jihadist recruiters on trial in Serbia, Albania (Zee News) • Serbia arrests seven men over 1995 Srebrenica massacre (AP) • EU Is One Step Behind Developments in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Euinside) • Refugees in Montenegro Plan Return to Kosovo (BIRN) • Brain drain in the Western Balkans (Open Democracy)

STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS • Vucic: Wisest policy for Kosovo (Radio Belgrade) • Djuric, Vulin: Pogrom in Kosovo and Metohija must never be forgotten (RTS/Tanjug) • Mihajlovic: Kosovo Serbs safer than before (RTS) • Eleventh anniversary of March pogrom against Serbs and Serbian Orthodox Church in Kosovo and Metohija (Danas) • SRS: Annul the Brussels agreement (Beta) • Joksimovic: Opening of a chapter by mid-year would be an achievement (Beta/Tanjug) • Germans persistently hindering Serbia (Novosti) STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS • B&H Council of Ministers completed (Nezavisne) • SNSD and DNS delegates not participating in the House of Peoples of B&H (RTRS) • Genjac: We are entering a period of blackmail, blockage and obstruction by the SNSD (Fena) • Hague Tribunal rejects Goran Hadzic release plea (RTCG) RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES • World Bank supports Serbia in creating better real estate management for its citizens and investors (The Financial) • EU to implement Bosnia association pact (EUobserver) • Bosnia’s Radoncic Accused at Kelmendi Drug Trial in Kosovo (Hetq) • Russia in the Balkans: Perceptions and Realities (Balkan Insight)

STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS • Serbian government fully devoted to EU path (RTS) • Djuric: Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija still not free (Jedinstvo/Tanjug) • Djuric: Serbia in the political life of Kosovo and Metohija (Vesti/Tanjug/RTS) • KFOR: Cooperation has contributed to improved security (Tanjug) • Pristina continues with illegal privatization (Novosti) • Branimir Stojanovic: We are not conditioning, but insisting on Union of Serb Municipalities (Radio Serbia) • New symbols do not annul Autonomous Province of Vojvodina (Beta) STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS • B&H has received the green light from the EU for the SAP (N1) • Possible blockade of the House of Peoples (Srna) • Dodik: We continue to be the strongest (Beta, Banja Luka correspondent) • B&H Journalist Association strongly condemns RS President’s verbal attack on Oslobodjenje reporter (Oslobodjenje) • Nasa Stranka: Ethnic parties create favorable conditions for extremists (Oslobodjenje) • Serge Brammertz visiting B&H (Oslobodjenje) RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES • FIBA grants Kosovo full membership, Serbia unhappy (Reuters) • Interview: Serbia says Russia ties don't hamper OSCE role (AP) • Macedonia’s Gruevski rallies supporters, defies opposition (EurActiv) • Hooligan Attack Raises Ethnic Tensions in Bosnia (BIRN) • Confusion After Bosnia Arrests Explosives Smugglers (BIRN) • US to back Montenegro in final stage of its NATO integration (NEOnline)

STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS • Joksimovic: Good day for Serbia (Tanjug) • Analysis of harmonization with EU acquis soon (Tanjug) • Albanian migrants were only a prelude (Politika) STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS • B&H Prosecutor: Order not to conduct investigations against Dzaferovic, Mahmuljin issued (Srna) • Dodik: Information on withdrawal of Russian optima group is false (Srna) • Dodik-Ferguson: RS must be visible in B&H’s European path (Oslobodjenje) • Russian Ambassador to B&H: Resolutions must mention all tragedies and all victims (Srna) • France: Montenegro not yet ready to join NATO (Tanjug’s Podgorica correspondent) • B&H jihadist recruitment center (RTCG/Taggespiegel) RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES • EU, NATO Officials Raise Concerns over Macedonia's Political Tensions (Novinite) • Dacic Aims to Ease Serbia-Croatia Tensions in Zagreb (BIRN) • Serbian central bank to consider rate cut on IMF, inflation: Reuters poll (Reuters) • Former Yugoslav foes join forces in seeking tombstone protection (Reuters) • Mladic Witness Blames ‘Criminals’ for Sanski Most Killings (BIRN)