Kosovars drunk with Serbia's brandy

This is after Serbia has increased its number of products and exported to Kosovo during 2018.

According to Kosovo Customs data this year from the neighbouring state in Kosovo, products worth over 318m euros have been imported. While during the same period last year, products worth 317m euros have been imported from Serbia.

Most of this time, fuels and alcoholic beverages have been imported.

Between January and September of this year, fuel worth over 75m euros has been imported, while beverages and alcohol worth about 30m euros.

Kosovo from the Serbian state has also imported live animals whose value amounts to up to 6m euros. And about 500 euros of meat and about 35 thousand euros of fish and other underwater animals.

What does Kosovo export to Serbia?

Kosovo's exports to Serbia is evidently smaller. For nine months from Kosovo to Serbia, 2m euros of fruit and edible nuts have been exported.

Naim Gashi, economics expert in a proposal for InFokus newspaper, has said Kosovo-Serbia trade exchange is continuing at the expense of Kosovo

“Kosovo's negative trade exchange with Serbia is continuing now and years at the expense of Kosovo's economy. The goods from Serbia dominate in our markets, in many cases smuggled or even with questionable quality, while our producers almost find it impossible to export to Serbia because of the untariff barriers imposed by Serbia”, Gashi has said.

Gashi has also added that the responsibility for this situation is the triangle-state, trade and citizen. According to him, state should set reciprocity measure with Serbia

The responsibility for this situation is to the state, trades and citizens. The state must impose reciprocity measures with Serbia. Suppose Serbia does not accept operating the energy highway with Albania, an embargo should be set for goods originating from Serbia.”, he said.

While Gashi has also said that businessmen should find alternative goods while citizens boycott them.

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Unlike the chairman of the Kosovo Economic House, Berat Rukiqi, has participated in the Regional Economic Conference last week: The Western Balkans in 2030 in Belgrade, where it presented the challenges of businesses in the Western Balkans.

“- We can't talk about vision in the Western Balkans, when for an export from country to country, under supposed free trade circumstances, only the annual cost of printing required documentation amounts to 20,000 euros for one company;

We can't talk about vision in the Western Balkans, when the EU has its connection with the countries of the Western Balkans, it does it through building relations with powerful individuals, bypassing the needs of citizens of these countries for reform and development;

We can't talk about vision in the Western Balkans, nor the vision in the EU, under the circumstances, when the global battle for the future of democracies and the world economy is in the midst of the” rival” and “opulists”. There are many in Kosovo. The liberal concept has remained out of play”, Rukqi declared.