These are capital projects included in Kosovo's 2 billion budget

Adoption of the draft budget for 2018 as planned is expected to increase in regular revenues of 6%, or 108m euros compared to the previous year. By the end of 2017, regular revenues are planned to total 1,725 billion euros, while it is now expected for 2018 to reach 1,829 billion euros.

Expenses are planned to be bigger than revenues, the gap will be covered by donations and loans.

The initial budget for 2017 was planned at 2,001 billion euros, but in the revision it has dropped to only 1,811 billion euros. From this budget by the end of the year from the central level will be spent 1,369 billion euros and 441m euros from the local level.

A budget of 2 billion and 69m euros has been planned for 2018, with an increase in spending of 258m euros compared to the revised budget. Of this amount, central-level expenditures are planned to total 1 billion and 578m euros, while local-level ones are planned to total 491m euros.

Out of the 1 billionth of the 811m euros planned to be spent in 2017, 31% or 555m euros are expenses for wages and wages. Costs for subsidies and transfers are planned at 496m euros, or 27% of expenditures. The goods and services have a share in the total expenditures of 12%, or 218m euros, while 26m euros are municipal spending or 2% of total expenditures. Most important part of capital spending. For 2017, 512m euros are planned to be spent on capital projects. In total expenditures, capital investments constitute 28%.

In 2018, however, expenses worth 2 billion euros are planned. Compared to 2017, in 2018 we will have growth of 5% or 175m euros. The capital spending category is scheduled to total 687m euros, or a 33% turnout in total expenditures. For the salary and wages category, 589 million or 28 % are planned.

Subventions and transfers will spend 26% of the budget, 526m euros will be spent on them. Costs of 236m euros are planned for goods and services, with an 11% turnout. Municipal spending will have a turnout of 2% or 28m euros.

The number of employees for 2018 who will receive salaries from the consolidated budget will reach 84 thousand and 386 employed, out of them 40 thousand and 515 will work at the central level and 43 thousand and 871 will work at the local level, and wages for them will reach 589m euros.

In 2017, at the central level, 39 thousand and 439, which noted that this number would increase to a thousand and 076 employed in 2018, while at the local level of 2018, planning the number of employees has not been calculated, the growth gap of 34 million for the salary category from 2017 to 2018 shows that wage increases are planned.

Procrastination in Education

The budget of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology for 2017 is scheduled to be 44m euros. In 2018, the Government of Kosovo has added 11m euros to this ministry, as the budget planned for 2018 is 55m euros, or a 20% increase. Most of these tools will go for pay.

For infrastructure in pre-university education for new projects, only 1m and 60 thousand euros are planned. While, there are 10m of 810 thousand euros planned to be spent on projects that have been launched in previous years or that have been borne year-on-year.

The new projects that have been budgeted for the first time in 2018 are 50 thousand euros for fixing heating at Hall “1 October”. There are 150 thousand euros earmarked for multiethnic school in northern Mitrovica, 50,000 euros for primary school in the Drenas Upper Futique, but it has not been mentioned whether by these means renovation or construction of these schools will take place. One hundred thousand euros are planned for the construction of the nursery in Prizren, 210m euros for the construction of professional high school in Komoran, as well as 500 thousand euros for the purchase of physical education salad equipment with sports packages.

There are also infrastructure projects designed by 2017 that will continue at 10 million and 810 thousand euros.

Out of these 350,000 euros are planned for the construction of the children's nest in Rahovec, 110 thousand euros for schools in Globocica of Elez Khan and 300 thousand euros are planned for primary school in Proliferation.

Other infrastructure projects from 2017, which are found in the 2018 budget, are 300 thousand euros for primary school at the Carralev in Suhareka, 250 thousand euros for construction of the sports hall at the Lipjan Shala elementary school and 150 thousand euros for the renovation of the “Pjetre Bogdani” in Pec. Other plans include 50 thousand euros for the renovation of the school in Drinovac and Decan Podergje, as well as 250 thousand euros for construction of the “Vaso Pasha Shkodrani” in the village of Leshan of the Suhareka municipality.

In 2018, more projects from 2017 are scheduled to be spent another 380 thousand euros. Planned projects with these tools are for the construction of high school music facilities in Gjilan, for construction of elementary school in Turicevc, for the renovation of high school in downtown Podujevo, for construction of high school in Mitrovica and for construction of primary school “Luigj Gurakuqi” in Batlava.

The most expensive project for 2018 is the purchase of inventory and laboratory equipment for schools worth 2m euros. It has not been mentioned which schools will be equipped with labs in 2018. For information technology destined for pre-university education 100 thousand euros and another 100,000 euros for the work of architectural projects for educational objects

As for reforms in pregraduate education, August plans to borrow 1.3m euros from the World Bank. The United States goods and services by the end of 2017 will cost the budget 9.7m euros, an estimated 9.8m euros planned for budget expenses in 2018. This category also includes the supply of books to students of a low cycle that annually costs the budget about 6m euros.

Pristina Hospital in 2018 budget

The Health Ministry will have 14.3m euros more than in 2017, or a 22% budget increase. From 51m euros in health budgets in 2017, it has grown to 65.3m euros for 2018.

According to planning, there is an increase in the savings in the category of goods and services at the Ministry of Health, including drugs and other services. This category of expenditures is expected to increase by 18%, or 6.5m euros, from 28.9m euros, to be spent in 2017, is now expected to spend 35.4m euros. Capital spending in this sector will double compared to 2017. Out of 6.6m euros in capital spending budgets in 2017, it was raised to 14.1m euros in 2018.

For primary care services, by 2018 it is planned to spend 2.9m euros. The new capital projects to be launched in 2018 are the construction of the Gnjilan QKMF building, the QKMF Gjakova building and the Pay Training Centre. Construction of the Pristina Hospital has also been budgeted on the draft budget of 2018.

Only 500,000 euros have been earmarked for the project and the start of construction. Also envisioned is the construction of an emergency complaint and the renovation of the QKMF. Other projects budgeted in 2018 are also: renovation and revitiation of the Gjakova surgery facility, the construction of the psychiatry facility in Mitrovica, the construction of the facility for the establishment of the laboratory for interventive cardiology and treatment at the hospital in Prizren. Also planned is the purchase of ambulances for the Pec Hospital, as well as the construction of facilities for mothers and children for Prizren Hospital, clinic microbiology equipment at QKUKU, construction of the Hemato-Oncology Clinic and construction of the Podujevo hospital.

The 2018 budget also plans to start building the Ferizaj hospital at 2.8m euros, as well as the first phase of the construction of the KKUK Emergency Centre worth 2m euros.

For the integrated health system and the purchase of equipment and ambulances for mother care and child are planned to spend 2.6m euros. Another 50,000 euros are planned for the purchase of cars for the health inspectorate.

Share tools for the National Stadium

Spending on culture, youth and sports is planned to increase by 36%. From 25.1m euros to spending until the end of 2017, 39m euros are planned in 2018.

In sports infrastructure for 2018, 13.9m euros are planned to be spent, out of them 9.1m of budget revenues and 4.8m euros from the privatisation of social companies- AKP's. Among the projects that were budgeted in 2018 is the National Stadium, for which 1 million and 950 thousand euros have been allocated. The stadium has been divided by the National Sports Center in Downtown. The JNK newspaper has reported that with the initiative of Speaker of the Parliament, Kadri Veselin stadium has been transported to Drenas, while the National Sport Centre will be built in Brnica.

These expenses are planned to invest in building sports gyms in: Istog, Rahovec, Decan, Skenderaj, Kacanik, Vita, Dragash, Vushtreja Samadreja of Gjilan, Podujevo, Zahaq of Pec, Great Krusha, Shpe and Loja Peja.

Also planned are the renovation of school sports polygons, the renovation of existing sports gyms in regional centres, the renovation of existing football stadiums in regional centres, the renovation of the stadium “Adem Jashari” in Mitrovica, the renovation of stadiums at: Pristina, Suhareka, Gjilan, Ferizaj, as well as Rahovec.

Building athletic trails at regional stadiums, building tennis complex in the Gjakova municipality, building tennis fields in various municipalities, building the Judo National Centre in Pec. The 2011 budget project has been budgeted at the National Sports Centre in Downtown, but the construction of the City Stadium in Drenas.

Also planned in the 2018 budget are building the city stadium: Peja, Kacanik, Zhur of Prizren, the aid stadium in Prizren, construction of the physical education hall at the <x0th>Hysni Zaymi” in the Berlin of Istog, the renovation of the football stadium in the Rahovec municipality, the regulation of the football stadium at Ratkoc in Rahoveci, the construction of tribunes, surrounding and the drilling of the football stadium in Runik, and the regulation of the city stadium in Kamce.

Construction of the city basin in Leposaviq (forcing with water processing equipment) The second phase is also in budget spending planning for 2018.

The Olympic swimming pool in Prizren, worth 500 thousand euros, and the city's 200,000-euro stadium in Lipjan, are also planned. Stadiums in the village of Novoselle of Peja and the stadium “Progress Thaci” in Prizren, worth 800 thousand euros, sports complex “11 Marsi” in Prizren worth 200 thousand euros and the sports complex in Nashec worth 200 thousand euros, are also projects that will begin in 2018 with tools from the AKP.

Other projects to be launched in 2018 by AKP's tools include the stadium in Suhareka Studies worth 150 thousand euros, the regulation of the city stadium “Riza Lusta” in Mitrovica, the regulation of sports grounds in Giipotok and Dragas worth 100 thousand euros, as well as the regulation of sports terrain in Fushe-Kosovo, worth 100 thousand euros.

Culture plans for infrastructure investments to be 1.2m euros for 2018 for a range of projects. Theatre and Opera target “back Rugova”, Museum of Contemporary Art, renovation of the National Library of Kosovo.

Other projects planned for 2018 are the construction and renovations of cultural centres throughout the territory of Kosovo. Construction of the House of Culture in Obilic, Hasova Culture Centre, the renovation of the Culture House in the Year, the Centre of Culture “Pristina” in Vushtrri, the Hebrew Cultural Centre in Prizren and the construction of the House of Culture “Uke Bytyqi” in Suhareka are part of these projects.

For support of youth in 2018, 1m euros is planned to be invested. The National Centre in Novosell and Skoroblic of Prizren, the Bosnian Cultural Centre in Pausk, Prizren, youth centres in Artana, Mamusha, Kacanic, Prizren and the Youth Recreative Centre in the village of Petershan in Gjakova are projects under youth support.

And for cultural heritage in 2018 it is planned to spend 3.7m euros on various projects.

The tools planned to be spent are dedicated to the renovation of the Kosovo State Archives building, Prizren Fortress, the Harilaqi Fortress, the Golden Castle, the Castle of Kechkolla, the Ulpiana municipality, the Dardana Fortress, the Marec Fortress, the Shaban Poluze Tower, the Kernasca Fortress, the Corish Fortress, the Oroberda Tower of Istogug, the Ceretite Tower, the Family Tower at the Vulic Family Hall, the Takókóké Tower at the Tower of Sulka.

Other cultural heritage projects for 2018 include the return of Kosovo's archaeological and ethnological treasure, rescue-like archaeological excavations, preventative measures and emergency interventions.

The restorations of cultural-type houses for which investment is planned in 2018 count a series of planned projects. As projects of this nature are counted the conservation and restoration of the Xhafer Deva House, the conservation and restoration of the Shaban Aga House in Vushtri, the Coruglu family House in Mitrovica, the restoration and conservation of the Fazli Boqolli Tower, the House of Hertics in Pristina, Peja's Raushiq, the Dresnic Garden and the cathedral in Prizren.

As investment projects in the 2018 budget, the study of feasibility and the ideal design for the natural museum are also provided. Also envisioned is the completion of works on Orthodox churches, Prizren Historical Centre, Ethnology complex “Emin Gjiku”, restoration of the laboratory for conservation, protection, preservation, study and promotion of spiritual heritage, permanent exhibition at the Kosovo Museum.

As for subsidies for youth and sports culture, this ministry plans an increase of 7% or 600 thousand euros. In 2017 that category will be spent 7.6m euros, while 8.2m euros are planned in 2018.

Infrastructure

In 2018 a 24% increase is planned. Of the 226m euros to be spent in 2017, 298m euros are now planned in 2018.

Only for road maintenance are they planned to spend 5.5m euros, out of them 1m for the Merdare-Morine highway, 500 thousand euros for the Pristina- Hani highway of Elez, and another 4m euros for maintenance of other roads.

The maintenance and construction of bridges are planned to spend 1m and 50,000 euros. These vehicles will be invested in maintaining the current bridges, as well as building the bridge over the Sitnica River in the village of Pestova, the Topanic village bridge in Kamenica, building bridge over the Lepenc River in Kovachevc in Kacanik, building bridges in the Drina municipality, and building overpass in the Upper Climate.

For 17 different road rehabilitation projects, 31.8m euros are planned to be spent. Planned projects are expansion and rehabilitation of the M9 Pristina-Peje-Peaj magical road, asphalt of the regional transit route from Shtime to Belnica, rehabilitation of the Lipjan-Magur regional road.

Roads that will be built and repaired by the amount of 31.8m euros are also the repair of the Prizren-Prevale regional road, the construction of the Gjakova circuit, the repair of the Istog regional road - Pee-Decan-Gjakov.

Other projects that are scheduled to begin in 2018 with a portion of the AKP's revenues are expanding the Komoran-Drenas-Skennderaj road worth 6.9m euros from the budget and 5.1m euros with AKP revenues. Part of this project is also the expansion of the Dolc-Gjakov road worth 5.9m euros from the budget and 5.1m euros from AKP revenues.

In 2018, 105 projects are planned to be launched in co-finance with municipalities worth 12 million and 668 thousand euros, which are mainly construction and asphalt of the current county roads.

While construction of new regional and local roads will cost the budget 21m and 44 thousand euros. By these means 76 projects are expected to be launched.

As for building highways in budgetary planning for 2018, 137m euros are estimated at 77.9m euros from the consolidated budget and 55.1m from AKP revenues. The Pristina- Hani e Elez highway is scheduled to be completed and paid in 2018 worth of 120m euros. For Pristina National Road- Gjilan-Concul for 2018 are scheduled to spend 17m euros and by 2020 on the road 126m euros are planned.

Agriculture

While 55m euros have been spent in 2017 for the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Rural Development, 57.8m euros, a 5% increase, have been planned for this ministry in 2018.

For grants and subsidies for 2018, 47.5m euros are planned to be spent with a 4.5% increase compared to the year 2017 spent of 44.9 euros. For the construction of the irrigation system in 2018, it is planned to spend 1.2m euros. Forest infrastructure plans to spend 1m and 160 thousand euros, as well as the Department of Farmers and Wines are planned to spend 650 thousand euros.

For the Agriculture Institute, it is planned to spend 1m and 150 thousand euros on renovation of the institute's facilities. For the creation of research capacities and agricultural land producers, as well as the integrated agricultural intelligence system are planned to spend 610 thousand euros.

Only 3.9m euros in public enterprise investments

The Ministry of Economic Development in 2017 will spend 22m euros, while for 2018 the ministry is scheduled to spend 24.3m euros -- an increase of 9.8%.

For the energy department infrastructure in 2018, it is planned to spend 1 million and 670 thousand euros. Costs of 50,000 euros are planned for the mining department, while for the intelligence technology department to implement the digital economy are planned for spending of 1 million and 674 thousand. Most of the budget is earmarked for the programme of energy efficiency measures, for which 6.2m euros are earmarked.

Since spending planned in 2018 worth 9m euros from the category of subsidies and transfers, only 3.9m euros will be dedicated to financing capital projects in public enterprises. These vehicles, transferred to this end of spending, cannot be used for operational spending on the part of public enterprises, but capital projects alone are said to be the budget project for 2018.

The expenses of the Ministry of Trade and Industry for 2017 are 6m and 940 thousand euros, while the ministry in 2018 planned costs worth 8m of 676 thousand euros -- a 20% spending increase.

By the end of 2017, economic growth through the category of grants and transfers will be spent at 1 million and 558 thousand. For this category in 2018, there is planning to be a 24% or 492 thousand euros increase in spending, so spending on this category in 2018 is planned 2 million and 50 thousand euros.

From capital investments for the Investment and Support Agency of Enterprises in Kosovo KIESA in 2018 are planned to spend 2 million and 48 thousand euros, they are scheduled to complete the Drenas Business Park worth 500 thousand euros, construction of business investors is planned at 150,000 euros, and 1m and 398 thousand euros are planned for the construction of economic zones across Kosovo.

The business registration project with fiscal customs and business numbers is planned to spend 300 thousand euros.

The project to develop new metrology fields ? Etalon equipment and other measures worth 300 thousand euros is a planned 2017 project

The ministry of innovation and entrepreneurship is the new minister, aimed at economic development. Out of the 9.8m-euro budget planned for 2018, 7m and 150 thousand euros are planned for the category of invasions and transfers.

For capital investments, this ministry plans to spend 1m and 850 thousand euros on 6 projects, mostly for advancing information technology. Construction and equipping the Regional Centres for Innovation and Enterprises, providing IT equipment for secondary schools, providing laboratory equipment for development of innovations for universities, investments in digitalisation infrastructure, and investments in open dates are projects that demonstrate in the 2018 project budget for the ministry.

The Ministry of Innovation and Undertaking has planned to purchase vehicles worth 150 thousand euros in 2018.

The Regional Development Ministry, as well as a new ministry with a budget of 4.2m euros planned for 2018, is planned to spend 1.5m euros on subsidies and transfers, and 2m euros as part of capital investments go towards the regional development programme.

Social welfare

The Ministry of Labour and Social Management is the ministry with the largest budget spent, until the end of 2017, the expenses of this ministry will be 398.8m euros, while in 2018 the ministry is scheduled to spend 408m euros -- an increase of 9.2m euros or 2%.

For the category of basic pensions by the end of 2017, 113m euros will be spent, while in 2018, 115m euros - an increase of 2m euros or 2% are planned for this category.

The same amount was planned in 2018 for pensions of disabled people. There are no budget changes for the early pensions of Trepca workers -- 4.3 million -- are planned in 2017, the same amount figures in 2018. Unchangable in the budget remains the financing of deputies of the years ʹ90s amount of 300 thousand euros in budget planning for 2018, just as it figures in 2017.

Compensation for the blind is 5.5m euros planned in the 2017 budget, the same amount in planning for 2018. The same amount of 10.5m euros, which figures in the 2017 budget, is planned for political prisoners, the same amount which was planned in 2018.

For the early pensions of KSF members, an increase of 100,000 euros is planned by the end of 2017 for the category, while 1.2m euros are planned for this category in 2018. The new category, which will benefit pensions during 2018, is the early pensions of KPC members, for which budget planning for 2018 figures a total of 2.6m euros.

The other new category, which figures in budget spending planning for 2018, is the category of disability retirement of 1.8m euros. A total of 1.4m euros are planned for pensions for paraplegic and tetraplegic persons. The family pension, worth 2.9m euros, is also the new category planned in the 2018 budget.

Small budgetary changes are in the basic pensions of contributors for whom 89.7m euros are planned in 2017, while 89.9m euros, an increase of 200 thousand euros, have been planned in 2018 for this category.

War invalid pensions, which figure in the 2017 budget, are 37.8m euros, while in budgetary planning for 2018, 38m euros are earmarked, or an increase of 200 thousand euros.

The pension category for war veterans in the 2017 budget revision has preceded much of 64m and 190 thousand euros. However, the basic budget law of 2017 set aside 38m euros. In 2018, 58m and 750 thousand euros are planned for veterans.

For the category of victims of sexual violence, this category, which for the first time figures in social welfare scheme, in 2018 the budget of 1m euros is planned.

Spending increases for 4m euros or 13% planned for social assistance. For this category in 2017, there are 27 million and 350 thousand euros planned, and in 2018 budget planning for this category, 31 million and 350 thousand euros are estimated.

Social services of 4.5m euros figure in the budgetary planning of 2018, the same amount that figures in the 2017 budget. Of the 3.6m euros, they figure in the budget expenses of 2017 and 2018 for employment services. And we have a 100,000-euro reduction for professional skills services, which in 2017 were planned at 300 thousand euros, and in 2018 only 200 thousand euros are planned. /Cashho. com/