Ten years of state, citizens without perspective want to abandon Kosovo

Irregularity, poverty, corruption, a favourless international position, isolation and citizens' attempts to leave the country.

These are some of the problems Kosovo's new state, according to analysts and MPs, has faced during these ten years of independence.

VV parliamentary group chief Glauk Konjufca says those who led Kosovo for the past ten years have nothing to boast about. He stresses that we are dealing with a country that wants to abandon its citizen.

All of what we can boast about, what they left us, what they sacrificed and are no longer alive. But if you're talking about the living, especially those who have exercised public responsibility and run Kosovo for the past ten years, I don't see anything to boast about. Because if you look at the rule of law for example. If you see the level of corruption. If you see the irresponsible of public officials. Especially the highest-level ones on how they run Kosovo, and if you see poverty, unemployment in Kosovo. The level of economic development, then you understand very clearly, we have many years ahead of hard work to bring Kosovo to the right. And to make Kosovo a state in which citizens not only boast, but a viable state, where citizens see a secure perspective of their lives here. Not as it is now where a large measure of Kosovo's youth -- the only purpose it has is to flee and abandon their state. So when we're dealing with a country that wants to abandon its citizens, I don't think it's a country that can boast too much of its peaks, or whatever it is, Conjufca said.

The head of the Initiative's Parliamentary Group, Bilall the Sheriff, claims that for these ten years, they have been scored, even though not as far as possible and should have been.

The Sheriff says Kosovo has been able to do more during these years, if the state's interest is put before party or personal interests. He says there's movement forward in all directions, but there's not enough movement, given such a long period of time as a ten-year-old.

The “, of course, for ten of the existence of the state of Kosovo has achievements. The question is whether we've reached our destination. Of course not. Have we fulfilled all expectations Kosovo citizens have been engaged in. Whether we could do more and why we couldn't do more. Whether he had achievements or did not, of course he did. I consider, at least I as an MP, I consider that we have been able to do much more, as if in the first place to have leaders in general in these decades, especially in this decade of declaring independence, in the first place to have had more of the country's interest than often party interests, or group and personal. No one can even brag about what he's done for days. But I don't think there's any reason for dephetism or great pessimism. I think optimism, we have reason for prudent optimism. But we should not relax and stop and continue the work further”, he said.

Meanwhile Ahmet Isufi from the AAK says Kosovo has not marked the achievements, which its people have been expecting and that it did not, what was supposed to happen. He says there has been impasses in many areas and that Kosovo needs a different policy.

Fifteen years after independence, there are challenges Kosovo has faced. But they are not the achievements that the people of Kosovo have been waiting for. Because we have had some stalled processes, especially in recognising Kosovo. In foreign policy, in terms of visa liberalisation. With EU integrations and other international mechanisms, this has shown the decline of Kosovo institutions during this period. In terms of the inner aspect, however, we also have a deadlock in economic development and the easing of poverty. Which shows that Kosovo needs a different government and in general institutional policy, taking over responsibility for the country's leadership. It is better to work within the country to increase our capacities in all spheres. As long as they do improvise on foreign policy, which in some cases has damaged us in terms of dialogue with Serbia, which is designed for Kosovo's domestic topics, and as a result Kosovo's independence is dim, with the introduction and no presence in other international mechanisms”, Isufi said.

Meanwhile, political issue connoisseur Imer Mushkolaj says Kosovo is better than it has been in judicial and political status as well.

But there are also many impasses, as according to him even after ten years Kosovo cannot formally and virtually have its sovereignty under its power in all its territory. While stressing that it has failed even to be part of important international organisations like the UN, and the problem remains the five EU bloc, which has not yet recognised Kosovo.

But when we talk about how much Kosovo has achieved within this decade, within this decade, to strengthen its international sovereignty and subjectivity, then we have problems here. Of course there's an impasse unfortunately. Even after ten years Kosovo cannot formally and virtually have under its power, its sovereignty all its territory, and that is a very problem. I'm talking about north of the country, which is still problematic... Unfortunately for the citizens of the country it's not that much has been done in this regard. Unemployment continues to be almost the same. And the economic situation continues to be heavy. Still EU countries remain as desired countries to go and find their own new life, or improve their own well-being. During this time, prosperity has grown only to humans who have been in power. The number of millionaires has increased, I believe, misusing economic and financial resources in the country and poor citizens. But not that the state has managed to create a strategy, how to get out of this economic crisis and from this difficult situation, which the country's citizens face every day“, Mushkolaj said.

According to him, the country's institutions have been much more likely to do for these years, but have lacked a clear strategy. While stressing, the owners of institutions during this decade have failed to create a stronger state.

“Institutions are basically trying to in some form to celebrate more with a makeup than to celebrate with an individual achievement ... It turns out it's not easy to create the country's state and institutions. Respectfully, the owners of institutions all this decade have failed to create a stronger country than it is now. So a country where citizens would need and feel secure in any way. And in terms of security and economic and social terms. We as citizens have problems in all three aspects”, Mushkolaj said.

LDK deputy Lumir Abdixhiku also stresses that Kosovo's best news has come in the early years of citizenship, when Kosovo soon began to gain international recognition from key countries and when it began membership in international organisation with renomes. But it says that Kosovo today is in an unfavourable international position.

I have the impression that today Kosovo is in an unfavourable international position. It's not in the same position as it was at the beginning of the declaration of independence. On the other side of the inner arena, it has failed to address the main concerns of our citizens, which we have always said are associated with free movement. Work places. With proper health and education. In these areas we're stuck too much, and for this part, of course, we're on our own, each responsible for what he's had in power for the past ten years... It's not that this party comes with all the best for our citizens. Because we're still at a minimum salary of 170 euros. We're still unemployed by 30 percent. We're still out of movement. And we're still on old beds, with no medicine or medicine in hospitals. Something to do with a country. So the state makes sense, when basic citizens' services are offered citizenship to «. But the glory of the feast always remains. Despite the economic conditions in which we can live”, Abdixhiku says.