Haradinaj doubts visa liberalisation becomes this year

While connoisseurs of European integrations say the most likely visa liberalisation scenario would be to have decision-making in EU institutions by 2018, while free movement begins in mid-2019.

Anni why Kosovo is already very close to visa liberalisation and has met almost all the conditions required for this process, there are rumours saying Kosovars will not be able to move freely to the Schengen area states by the end of 2019.

However, Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj in a proposal for Radio Kosovo has voiced optimism that visa liberalisation will happen this year.

“There are voices that could even be made this year”, Prime Minister Haradinaj said.

Meanwhile, analyst Emrush Ukkan told Radio Kosovo that corruption cannot be an obstacle to visa liberalisation, since as a phenomenon it cannot be undone. According to him, no harmonisation of positions within EU states is a kind of effort to find justification in the event of no visa liberalisation.

It's not wet and it can't be undone anywhere in the world, and I don't think it's an obstacle right now. But I think that not harmonising within the European Union is some form of finding arguments elsewhere to justify, or creating an alibi if you don't come to it. I'm not saying he's not coming, but unless there's a decision-making, both are possible”, he said.

European Integration Minister Gift Hoxha considers Kosovo on track to get liberalisation as soon as possible. She says they cannot predict whether the EU Council of Ministers will vote for visa liberalisation for Kosovars.

Many of the states are supporting us. Some of them have their own hesitations, but on the other hand there is still nothing if they can be postponed or likely. We are still within the timelines through which other states have passed during this process”, Minister Hoxha stressed.

Otherwise, the Ministry of Integration has launched an awareness campaign to prepare citizens what visa liberalisation is and what the possibilities this process offers.

The results of the “Eurostat” report say Kosovo is not part of 30 tops of countries with large number of asylum seekers, which means that citizens of our country will not misuse this process. /Radio Kosova