Kosovo team's visa cause doesn't participate in international festival

Unfortunately, as reported in the report, part of the show team failed to provide visas to travel to Romania.

“These last two months, the Multimedia Centre staff have been in a multi-faced effort to secure visas for the entire team, but our efforts have run into the bureaucracy and humiliating treatment of some of the European embassies in Kosovo. I'm shocked by the fact that after all these international presentations (over 100-sosh) of our performances, the Schengen visa regime for our artists has become more regid, fiercer and non-loved. Tested in our own skin, and not only for two months, but over all these last few years, the Schengen area, for us, has become an area of the soft “fascism”, with which the European regulatory birocracy converted to “Schengen” suppresses, mistreats and humiliates”, says the statement.

Paradoxically, it is said further, but ten days ago, the European Union Office in Kosovo shared my gratitude “Europe of “, for “the compromise of European ideas and values”.

And here, ten days after, me and the show team were unable to travel to Romania. And so, I'm asking, if these “values of the European idea” include this racist and degrading approach that some of the EU member states in Kosovo have toward us Kosovars? Because then I'd rather be without this crown of Europe, then I'd rather be an artist who tries and fights against the rules that oppress the little, the powerless, the changed, the artist who opposes the privileges of some European citizens at the expense of some other {jo-European) ”, is said in the communiqué sent by Jefon Neziraj.

This is the second time that a Multimedia Centre performance is unable to be delivered outside Kosovo. A few years ago, Chinese authorities had cancelled visas for the Kosovo team, and the participation of the Kosovo body at the Shanghai International Experimental Festival Theatre (SIETF) festival was disabled.

“Today, while it's the second time we've been unable to give our show again, as a result of the bureaucratic and political complications with visas. But since the first time, the complications and annulment of the show had a meaning “logic “”, given that China has not recognised Kosovo's independence, the possibility of participating in a European festival is with much concern. Europe and its scepgin area set a small (but significant) example today that when Kosovars are questioned, only geography was shared with China: it is in the end.