Haradinaj says we have visas in December, but according to connoisseurs it's impossible

Haradinaj for Kosovo Press says the odds are real for Kosovo in December to enter the Council of Europe agenda and that separate decisions of member states can provide positive epilogue to the free movement towards the Schengen area for Kosovo citizens.

Haradinaj's position has faced visa liberalisation for Kosovars does not see it as controversial, but that its hopes are in the German state.

I believe I'm going to give a long epilogue to decide before Christmas. The Council of Europe holds a summit in December so I remain in hope that we will be on the agenda, so I say I don't see France's position as a controversial liberalisation position, so I've had in the past meeting with the Interior Minister we have a signed agreement, too. . I don't see the situation the same as developments that have taken place for opening negotiations like the case of northern Macedonia and Albania, so this is a different situation, and I think that the position of the countries apart will be different. ...Real is the possibility of entering the agenda is the issue that we have now declared even in the past, but countries only can advance in the concrete case Germany can advance with the stance of the own“, Haradinaj said.

But European integration connoisseurs are considering visa liberalisation is unlikely to occur in December.

The responsibility for leaving Kosovo's citizens isolated connoisseur of the integrity process in the Council for Jury and Political Studies, Rheze Hoxha, pits Kosovo institutions that have not testified to the willingness to fight organised crime and member states of the Council of Ministers who have not shown political will towards this process.

While Haradinaj's statements consider it urgent, Hoxha said that by praising the current situation and France's stance over Kosovo, visa liberalisation is not going to happen this year, but will be the process that will take several years away.

According to her, not creating new institutions is affecting and in terms of delays in the visa liberalisation process.

The promises that former Kosovo Prime Minister Haradinaj has made to Kosovo, we assess this promise as a little pressing which have not been with the same line as the situation or the political will that reigns in the Council of Ministers. The recent declaration of the president of France has no part in his political agenda to the citizens of Kosovo that also indicate that perhaps the visa liberalisation process gets a few years away... Unfortunately, what you're seeing now means even more to these recent French statements is not expected to happen, but we always hope that such a thing will change, but by actuality it is seen not”, she said.

Demush Shasha of the Institute EPIK says there is no possibility in any scenario of a positive decision to abolish visas for Kosovars.

While seeing the German state's support for this process as positive, Shasha says it is unlikely that France will change its stance until there are no results in combating high corruption.

It is absolutely impossible for Kosovo to get the green light for visa liberalisation by the end of this year. In front of Kosovo are the remaining six institutional steps for visa liberalisation within EU institutions. If we take an example of the last two countries that have received visa liberalisation they have had six months to move from where they are to the free movement of their citizens, so in no scenario it is possible to have visa liberalisation decisions this year. France is consistent in its stance that Kosovo has failed to meet one of the remaining two criteria for visa liberalisation, in the field of fighting high corruption“, he said, respectively.

During this week, Kosovo media have circulated information from France's diplomatic sources that without meeting the criteria of fighting organised crime and corruption, Kosovo will not receive visa liberalisation.

We remember that during this year's visit to Kosovo German deputy Peter Beyer has stayed from party ranks The CDU, of Chancellor Angela Merkel, who had said visa liberalisation could be a Christmas present.

“German is a sincere supporter of Kosovo and EU integration, even for liberalisation. There were also dates for liberalisation. We never gave a date, we talked about the process. However, we are just one country, there are many states that need to be supported. It is unfair that Kosovo does not have visa liberalisation. I won't give you the date, but maybe it'll be a gift to the Christmas”, Beyer said that time.

While, the date for visa liberalisation was given by all governments even the outgoing Kosovo government led by Ramush Haradinaj as the date for free movement of Kosovo citizens has even mentioned the end of 2018 and June of this year.