Kosovo can't get EU candidate status either in 2020

Although we are in September 2019, recognitions of political issues in the country have expressed sceptical that Kosovo will be able to obtain candidate status in 2020 as well.

Demush Shaha, from the Kosovo Institute for European Policy (EPIK), has said that obtaining candidate country status is an extremely complex process, which on average has taken three years.

“This story of obtaining candidate country status has started since the start of the past government's work when in its governing programme, the government pledged that by the end of the ruling mandate it will apply and receive candidate country status”.

“Now we know because of the government's fall we failed to see the end of the absolute mandate Haradinaj but also beyond what it has written on the governing programme, it was a communique, in February 2018, where Kosovo is said to deserve to receive candidate country status by the end of 2018, but that this did not happen”.

“Anyway that didn't happen, but obtaining candidate country status is an extremely complex process, which on average has taken three years to achieve candidate country status”, Shaha has said, writes EO.

Shaha has voiced scepticism that neither the future government will be able to obtain candidate status.

And the other analyst, Bekim Baliqi, has said that Pristina's homework has not been carried out in time and that the decision is made by EU member states.

The “This does not depend on them as much, since homework has not been done and many decisions in terms of the EU do not depend solely on Pristina, but depend more on decision-making centres in these EU member states”, Baliqi has said.

Kosovo continues to remain the last in the Western Balkans in EU integration processes.