Sík parameter that measures the fight against corruption

As for demarcation of the border with Montenegro, the incumbent minister says the agreement must be ratified as soon as possible.

“we can never say it's enough, there are no measure-appreciating parameters to say that we have fought this stage long enough or have failed to fight it. I mean, there's something that we're constantly facing and we're constantly trying to reinforce our institutions to be able to fight this phenomenon. With the fact that a large percentage of budgets and measures, for example, for the implementation of the SAA, are dedicated precisely to the justice ministry and in general, shows our institutional commitment to strengthening and functioning the institutions of justice, and therefore fighting corruption. Therefore, this remains a goal which remains to be fulfilled and fought”, Ahmetaj said in an interview for Online Economy.

“While in terms of the demarcation issue, we have consistently said that Kosovo must ratify demarcation in order to complete the last criterion for visa liberalisation”, Ahmetaj said.

“The fight against corruption is broad termiology, everything that represents criminal acts involving corruption and crime goes into that category so it cannot be specified or fragmented precisely which cases or which phenomena, but whatever comes into this category must be fought. And not only for visa liberalisation but also for the well-being of our institutions, for the well-being of our citizens and for the good of the state”, she said.

Although it does not give evidence that when Kosovars can move freely into the Schengen area, Ahmetaj voiced optimism that if Kosovo meets the criteria, the EU will not be delayed with procedures.

I am very optimistic if we succeed in fulfilling our obligations then even the EU mechanisms will immediately come into operation for the visa liberalisation process to be completed even within EU institutions”, the first European Integrations to be clarified.

Translating European Union legislation will cost dearly the state budget with the aim of meeting obligations issued by the Stabilisation and Association Agreement.

“We have an agreement with Albania on the issue of translating the entire EU legislature. We all know that it's a volume material and enough in order to reduce the budgetary cost and we've made this deal with Albania because it's the same material that serves any country which is either candidate or potential candidate, so we've been trying to get ahead of this job. As far as we've been planning so far we're satisfied with all that remains a job that is ahead of us to finalize, I say there are tens of thousands of pages of documents that are required not only to translate but then to be corrected and adapted in order to be compatible with archive”, says the minister in office.

For a year it is designed to translate 5 million and 255 words. Only one word will cost 0.017 euros. For a year it is spent translating close to 100,000 euros. And for three years the planning has been made to spend 272 thousand and 576 euros.

While some 750 hours a year have been predicted for their own translation or translation of official meetings, two thousand and 250 hours have been anticipated for three years. For this type of translation, only one hour costs 8.12 euros.

If these two services are calculated, the cost is 290 thousand and 862 euros. All these services will be performed by a private company.