GAP: Kosovo government increases spending

According to the Finance Ministry's annual financial report 2018, during 2018 all public institutions have spent about 20m euros in total for representation, use of mobile phones, fuel for cars, as well as labor for trips in and abroad.

A GAP media communiqué notes that each of these categories has increased by 2017, where labor costs have increased by 45 percent for representation by 18 percent, mobile phones for 30%, and fuel per cent.

For several years now, the GAP Institute has published data on the expenses of ministers and ministers and cabinet officials for the hire, mobile phone, fuel and representation. The data for these expenses is collected through official requests in relevant institutions because they are not published on official sites. In most cases, a considerable number of ministries continue to fail to respond to our demands, such as the Office of the Prime Minister in the past three years has only responded to the expenses of 2017; The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has not responded to us for three years, the Ministry of Public Administration for two years, the Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology has responded in part or has not responded at all. Based on the leading positions, in the institutions we have data about, political advisers have spent mostly on labor and use of mobile phones, while deputy ministers/aties have spent mostly on representation and fuel for cars”, the communiques say.