Not this year, but not next year, the visas may not be removed.

For seven years Kosovo citizens have been awaiting positive news to move visa-free to European Union countries. The expectation has only become stronger by statements by our politicians, who have given different deadlines for [visa] liberalisation. The most familiar is the country's president, once former prime minister and former foreign minister, Hashim Thaci.

While the internationals have always been reserved for this case.

At this time when Kosovo is in critical days in terms of visa liberalisation, political connoisseurs in Kosovo and human rights estimate there will be no visas either this year, and that politicians' statements in Kosovo have been made for party interests.

Now, how many years Kosovo citizens expect to be equal to those of other states in terms of free movement.

Those who run with the country consistently voiced optimism that this protracted process will be completed within a short time and that will result in the free movement of Kosovars.

The latest statement came from chief executive Ramush Haradinaj, who the previous day said at the end of the year, will receive good news of visas.

Even he has asked all opposition parties to deliver positive messages for visa liberalisation, as there is no reason to be pessimistic.

While opposition parties say liberalisation does not happen once and criticises power that consistently provides the date for completion of this process.

For Behxhet Shala, from the Council for Protection of Rights and Human Freedoms, Kosovo has been making a mockery of the issue of visa liberalisation, even from position and opposition.

The “those who have promised that there will be a year of visa liberalisation have done so because it has to continue power, those who have opposed the politicians in power, I mean the opposition who said there would be no visas, in order to bring down their position and become their own position. It has been a bad game, a dirty game of prayer, which is ultimately costing Kosovo citizens. All of those who either promise to have visa liberalisation in certain terms or say they don't have and will, all of them have visas, they don't have a visa problem, either they have a passport in Albania, or they have a passport of another state, or they get a visa with an accelerated procedure by misusing some diplomatic passports. These are not the ones who suffer, they suffer those who need healing outside, those who have a family outside, those who need an education or specialisation outside”, he says.

On the other hand, he says that both local and international countries have for visa failures.

While mentioning Kosovo- Serbia, where it says the visa issue can be used condition on this topic.

“On the course of political talks between Serbia and Kosovo, now the international community has a strong adu in its hands, to put a huge pressure on Kosovo, to make even more likely concessions against Serbia, and can also use the visa liberalisation process as a condition for those talks. It means that they have already ceased to exist in the technical criteria that were earlier as a condition for visa liberalisation. It's now emerging as the main political criterion, is no longer fighting corruption, nor fighting organised crime”, he says.

Meanwhile, the Kosovo Institute for European Policy (EPIK) has come up with a research that explains the remaining steps until the conclusion of the visa liberalisation process.

According to Demush Shasha from EPI, decision-making by the Council of Ministers and the European Parliament Kosovo, it is almost impossible to finish within this year, and even in 2019.

The critical “Data is December 6th and 7th, because the Council of the European Union in the configuration of interior ministers, who have the mandate to meet the regulation change in question on December 6th and 7th, has no next date by the end of the year, so it is critical that we intend to be on the agenda on December 6th and 7th. Of course, it could be voted to meet the regulation change in other councils, but the odds are small. That's why we have the option to become the lobby for Kosovo to enter the agenda on December 6th and 7th. We consider that we are in the critical last days, to ensure that decision-making is completed within this year. As each day passes, we are entering a stage where suspicions are growing that this will happen by the end of”, he said.

He says entry in 2019 without clarification for visa liberalisation will be extremely complex.

While, according to political analyst Behlul Beqaj, giving the deadlines by Kosovo politicians is another proof of how serious they are.

Kosovo politicians' midterm delivery is an additional testimony of them are not serious. Kosovo politicians are unable to fulfil the promises on which it depends, but give promises that are not dependent at the leadership of Kosovo at all... I do not enjoy visa liberalisation, despite that it is an untenable and necessary right for all. I don't appreciate the fact that the only ones who can eventually change the bad situation in Kosovo is the army of young people in Kosovo who, after liberalisation, will abandon Kosovo, and in Kosovo, if young people leave, there is no one who can resist this”, he says.

Days ago, the chief of the European Union office in Kosovo, NataliaApostolova, cautioned Kosovo politicians not to pledge over the deadlines for visa liberalisation, since, as she now said, this process is in the hands of member states.

We remember that Kosovo is the only country that has been conditioned for visa liberalisation, demarcation of the border with another state (Montenegro).

The issue of visa liberalisation for Kosovo is now in the hands of Council of Europe member states that are expected to vote for or against liberalisation.

In May of next year elections are held within the European Parliament, while there is the Brex issue, which is expected to consume the attention of all European Union states, something thought to make Kosovo's process difficult if there is no decision-making by then.