After blocking Serbian flour, that's how Serbia threatens Kosovo

Trade Minister Rasim Ljalic has demanded from the government in Pristina to withdraw this decision, because in case they do not give up this decision, their state will take countermass, the papero.net submits.

The “Poming away from countermass, because it does not take us anywhere, but in case there is no other way, then we have to do this”, has declared Ljalic who has added that Serbia's flour tax will be one of the topics discussed at the regional meeting to be held in Budva.

No country with less than 10 million people, if the share of exports to GDP is at least 50, there is no chance for economic development. All countries thinking of getting caught this way and protecting their businessmen are, in fact, shooting at their “leg, he stressed.

The price of flour is between 197 and 205 euros. We told them we'd take countermass in case this decision doesn't back down. We cannot wait two or three months for them to buy wheat from us, make flour and sell it”, Ljajic stressed.

As he added, Serbia will not give up all obstacles abroad with countries in the region, with a model identifying all existing barriers that exist and all CEFTA member states will be introduced.

Agroen Economist, prof. Dr. Miladin Svarlic, believes such Pristina decisions will be more and more.

This is yet another evidence that Kosovo is not an integral part of the Republic of Serbia and that such events in the future will be numerous”, Sevarlic recalls.

As he says, Kosovo cannot produce wheat and flour for its needs.

“They are dependent on imports, but there is a question of where they will import and at what price, while at the lowest price they have imported from Serbia they cannot find it anywhere, so I believe that the logic of consumer protection and the logic of the inevitability of co-operation” has ended Svarlic.