The institutional vacuum will also reflect on Progress Report

The European Commission releases the findings, known as the Progress Report, once a year for Western Balkan countries, through which it measures the progress of these countries towards European integrations and determines obligations to meet the criteria.

Emrush Ujkan, European Law professor at the University of Pristina, told Radio Free Europe that in the upcoming Progress Report, the European Union is expected to underline the delay of establishing institutions after the June 11th parliamentary elections.

The first <x0). With the fact that we haven't had these institutions created from June onward, after the elections, this is something that will be highlighted in Progress Report”, Ucan notes.

The findings in the next Progress Report, Ujani adds, are also expected to highlight the fact that the lack of establishment of institutions has led Kosovo's dialogue -- Serbia -- not to have the same trend and to have delays in implementing agreements.

In this year's European Commission report, it follows, the fact that the absence of these institutions has made it impossible to ratify the Agreement for Demarcing the border with Montenegro, with which visa liberalisation for Kosovo citizens has been blocked, as well as the permanent challenge of fighting organised crime and corruption.

The lack of establishment of these institutions and institutions, in addition to being mentioned as such, will indirectly reflect other developments, other aspects that concern the actual functioning of Kosovo institutions”, Ujan points out.

On the other hand, Besa Sahin, the connoisseur of European integration, told Radio Free Europe that the Progress Report would present remarks in many of the processes that have been launched but are not complete.

The fact that the issues Kosovo has had to implement during this year also in its report to the EU, but also other policies that it has pledged to do will be reflected negatively in the” Progress Report, Sahin says.

The latest Progress Report has estimated that, with all the advances, Kosovo remains a place that should work harder to establish rule of law and rule of law, find common language for making political decisions in the Parliament and engage more in economic reforms and dialogue with Serbia.

This report has raised many remarks about the work of institutions. Concerns were raised about continuing clashes in Kosovo between the ruling political parties and the opposition.

The remarks made in these progress reports, Sahin says, have not been taken seriously by the leadership in Kosovo, and that all of this has caused harm to the country, when it is considered that criticisms coming from the Progress Report benefit policy improvement in Kosovo.

The Kosovo relation, the EU, is in a stage where the Progress Report is having no effect on the impact of policies in Kosovo, so that they can improve. Progress report has become a document that is not being taken seriously neither by the Government of Kosovo, but not by the EU itself, given that Kosovo does not have the same perspective of EU integration, as other countries in the region”, Sahin says

Kosovo is considered that in addition to the impasses in European integrations in general, it continues to remain isolated, without visa liberalisation. Meanwhile, one of the steps Kosovo has taken towards integration into the European Union is stressed as signing a Stabilisation and Association Agreement.