Pandeli Majko: Here's who's holding us back from opening the border with Kosovo

Albanian State Minister for Diaspora Pandeli Majko made a strong statement, revealing the reason why he prevents free movement between Albania and Kosovo, and practically makes relations between the two countries remain at the Abetar level as Kosovo approaches the 10th anniversary of independence.

Mako, interview for RTSH, has said it is businesses that are hindering free movement between the two countries, as they are afraid of lowering the price of goods.

After all, business and business are telling us: wait, look out, don't open the border, because I need the concession there, don't open the border because it lowers the price of goods, I need politics, that I care better about going through the stuff than it is from that direction.

Although politics seems to be ruling, more and more order is being put into business.

If I had put it into the focus of interests I had done it over and over again, decision-making under the business lobby is to worry about, and if there's a low look of mistreatment that business is doing politics is not the failure of free movement of people between Albania and Kosovo, it's at the crime level”, Majko said.
Majko maintains the idea that the port of Stingen, an uncontained promise of the Rama government and articulated by Majko himself, would have positively affected relations between the two countries.

We should have given it a long time ago, it didn't come true. If Kosovo today had the port of Stignini, things would be very different, whether in Strygin or in view of economic relations with Kosovo”, Majko said.