Visa liberalisation and INTERPOL are not priorities either for 2019

Economic development, the fight against corruption and advances in the European integration process are highlighted as the priorities of Kosovo's 2019 policy. Along with these priorities, the end of the negotiations process with Serbia is seen as a separate goal.

Kosovo Deputy Prime Minister Fatmir Limaj told Radio Free Europe, that the commitment of the Government of Kosovo during 2019 will be focused on priorities and goals which in 2018 failed to realise.

Our “engagement will be in the direction of intensifying in the country's economic development, advancing European integrations, further consolidation of citizenship and increasing prosperity, such as our internal reforms aimed at boosting citizen welfare. These should be some of our” targets, Limaj said.

On the other hand, representatives of opposition political parties say the priority should be elections and the formation of new institutions, which, according to the opposition, would guarantee legitimacy in government.

Ismet Beqiti, from the Democratic League of Kosovo, says new institutions must first be formed which would then have the country's economic development priorities.

“Kosovo's main priority and main need and citizens has been precisely the creation of stable and reliable institutions. This means that the country's priority should be new institutions. New institutions with legitimacy and then even earlier that we've offered the opportunity to work and talk to all those who want the country's good”.

The large “The issues must be, economic development and fighting organised crime and corruption - rule of law. Normal to work too hard for visa liberalisation, but not to give the “date, Beqiri said.

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