Zeynep: Costet reminded us of Kosovo's main problem: worsening corruption

American Ambassador to Kosovo Philip Costnett wrote a post last night on the social Twitter network that reminds Kosovars that the level of corruption in Kosovo has deteriorated.

“Corruption perception in 2018 was worse than in 2017<18>, Costnet wrote. “This should concern each citizen of Kosovo. How are you going to keep your government accountable in 2019?

Isuf Zana, from the organisation Democracy Plus, has commented on periscope this statement of Kosnet coming just when the key theme on the political scene in Kosovo is tax with Serbia, dialogue with him and the stability of the ruling Coalition.

According to Zeynep, the US ambassador in his post has reminded Kosovars of the main problem, and that is the level of corruption that has been markedly deteriorating according to the perception of citizens.

It is clear that the attention of the political class is directed to so-called major agendas, such as dialogue with Serbia and other issues have remained in margins. This has also influenced the level of corruption to increase its perception of citizens” respectively, Zeynep said of periscope.

This is because substantial reform is not seen, rather, a restoration of politics and other parapolitical groups in institutions that are called on to fight corruption. The American ambassador, like the preliminary one, has consistently brought attention to the high level of corruption and rule of law. Mr. Kosnett restores discussion from dialogue at the level of corruption, which has only marked deterioration in Kosovo, despite the fact that we have been very bad in the Transparency International” Index in the past years, he has continued.

Transparency Internation's report has shown that Kosovo has also marked theggression in the fight against corruption during the year we left behind.

So says Transparency International, which measures the level of corruption in various countries of the world.

Transparency International yesterday has published the Corruption Perception Index for 2018.

According to this index, Kosovo ranked 93rd with 37 points, compared to the year we left behind that it was 85th with 39 points. And in 2016 it was ranked 95th. This means that Kosovo is ranked eight places worse than a year ago.

The other side, fighting corruption remains Kosovo's main condition for visa liberalisation. /Periscopi