Finland's Ambassador: If you want visas, fight corruption

According to her, the focus of the Government of Kosovo should be on meeting this last criterion that the country must meet, which not only fulfils obligations in the European integration process, but brings much good to Kosovo society, with particular emphasis on young people.

“I hope soon. In the Finnish side, we really hope that especially young people can travel visa-free to Europe as soon as possible. There are some requirements that are necessary, and at the moment I don't understand that very clearly, because we'll get the assessment soon on the 28th of this month I believe, so I don't know how the assessment will come up, but I think it's very necessary to think about anti-corruption and organised crime, because you're not doing this for the EU, but you're doing this for yourself and for Kosovo”, Finland's ambassador said in an interview for Kosova Pris.

As she spoke of corruption, the Finnish ambassador appeals to the country's institutions to be stricter in fighting this phenomenon.

Of course everyone knows there's much to do especially in terms of corruption. Thus, anti-corruption measures should be taken more seriously. As far as organized crime is concerned, I'm not very informed about what the situation is in this direction, so I can't comment much on this”, Sterernwal says.

Otherwise tomorrow, the European Commission is expected to publish the visa liberalisation report for Kosovo. This report is expected to testify whether the country has met its latest visa criteria, whether to fight corruption and organised crime.