STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS • Nikic new head of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija (Novosti) • Serbs to take part in Kosovo elections in five columns (Politika) • Government abolishes emergency situation (RTS) • Nikolic appeals, Hollande: We must show solidarity (RTS) • Kirby: Initiative for a donors’ conference encouraging (Beta/Tanjug) • Vucic: Reconstruction of infrastructure plan in the next ten days (Radio Serbia) STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS • Inzko: Russia rejected PIC statement (Srna) • Gruevski-Rasmussen: Macedonia’s accession to NATO remains a joint interest (Republika) • Deployment of Macedonian Albanians to Syria organized in Elbasan (Sitel/MIA) RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES • Floods inflict grievous blow on frail Balkan economies (Reuters) • Mine explodes in Bosnia as floods clear-up begins (Global Post) • The Importance of Helping Serbia (Huffington Post) • Macedonian Police Action in Ethnic Riots Queried (BIRN) • Bosnia-Herzegovina Protests a Response To Post-War Corruption, Impoverishment (insurancenewsnet.com)

STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS • Vucic: Serbia needs donors for reconstruction (Radio Serbia) • CIK rejects Kostic’s candidacy (Novosti) • EULEX requests arrest warrant for three members of Drenica Group (Tanjug) STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS • Rasmussen: NATO ready to help B&H (Fena) • Batteli appeals for further aid to flooded-affected people (Tanjug) RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES • Serbia Gathers Donors for Post-Flood Aid as Fiscal Gap Swells (Bloomberg) • Worries Turn to Disease as Waters Recede in Balkans (The New York Times) • Record Bosnian floods raises danger of moving mines (euronews) • Bosnia authorities under fire over flood response (BIRN) • Drowning in the Balkans (counterpunch.org) • Dobrica Cosic, First Friend Then Foe of Serbia’s Milosevic, Dies at 92 (The New York Times) • Jihadist Threat to Europe Worries Macedonia (BIRN)

STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS • Djuric: Nikolic soon with Ban about floods in Serbia (Beta/RTS) • Dacic, Hahn: Serbia can count on EU help (Tanjug) • Varso: Slovakia not to change stand on Kosovo (Tanjug) • Chepurin: Help in several stages (Beta) • Georgieva: Serbia has complete support from EU (RTS) • Donors’ conference to be held on Thursday (Tanjug) STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS • Rasmussen visiting the region (Beta) Unrest in Skopje over murder of teenager (Dnevnik) RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES • Kosovo Ex-Guerrillas Escape From Detention (BIRN) • Macedonia: Political parties keep silence about incidents and protests in Skopje (Focus Information Agency) • Balkans on alert as swollen rivers due to hit new peaks – Floods, landslides claim at least 49 lives (AFP) • Thousands of wartime explosives dislodged as Balkans flooding leads to landslides (RT) • Bosnia’s Other Calamity (The New York Times)

STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS • Serbia to observe three days of mourning (B92) • EU to monitor elections (Beta) • Vojackova Sollorano: UN will help in rebuilding Serbia (RTS) • EU: Much less than one billion Euros for Serbia (Tanjug) • Ambassadors in Obrenovac: Serbia needs aid (Tanjug) • Aid from all over the world arrives in Serbia (Radio Serbia) STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS • Erdogan: Turkey will send most urgent aid to B&H (Oslobodjenje) • Livne: Future generations need to know what happened (Srna) RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES • Kosovo to Ensure Smooth Elections also in North (BIR) • Serbia needs help to repair flood damages: FM (Xinhua) • Russian Helicopters to Fight Balkan Fires (RIA Novosti) • Floods affect over 1 million in Balkans, destruction "terrifying" (Reuters) • Mladic ‘never ordered me to open fire on civilians’ (AFP)

STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS • Nikolic to attend UNSC session (Danas) • Stefanovic thanks UN for aid (TV Pink) • International aid arrives in Serbia (Politika/Novosti) • Russia sends another plane (Tanjug) • Davenport: EU is ready to set aside funds to help Serbia (Beta) • Zvonimir Stevic – joint ticket for better results (Radio Serbia) STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS • Dodik, Vucic press conference (Srna) • U.S. government allocates $50,000 in aid (Patria) RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES • Serbia: floods turn into unprecedented disaster - gov't official (Voice of Russia) • Floods in Bosnia Trigger Landslides; Thousands Flee High Water (The Associated Press) • 25,000 Evacuated in Serbian Floods (novinite.com)