6 hours agoGerman Minister of Kosovo: Trust in Our Support
Periskopi(7 years ago)
(7 years ago)We are determined to help Kosovo, and we have told Kosovo colleagues last week that they should trust strongly in Germany's support. So said German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas to the German newspaper “Stutgarder Nachrichten”. “We want the European perspective for Kosovo, while the reforms that have been carried out there are [...]
“We wanted the European perspective for Kosovo, while the reforms, which have been carried out there, are impressive and must be accepted”, Maas has said, who has confirmed Germany's further financial support for Kosovo, broadcast public television.
German newspaper Stuttgarter Nachrichten has told Maas that the German government considers it wrong if the EU and Germany give up support for Kosovo, including financial assistance.
If that happens, in a short time all that has been achieved by a large could for a long time --”, Maas said.
In the article on journalists Franz Feyder, Christoph Reissinger, published in the German newspaper “Stutgarder Nachrichten”, dedicated to Kosovo, the paper quoted Foreign Minister Heiko Maas as saying that “reforms that have been carried out there are impressive and that they must be accepted”.
Although it has been 20 years after the war ended, in which she was engaged NATO and its partners in Kosovo, Mass further confirms the continuation of Germany's financial assistance to this country. Asked by Stutgarder Nachriten on this issue, German Foreign Minister Mass has said that:
We wanted European prospects for the Western Balkans and for Kosovo. Reforms that were carried out there are impressive and must be accepted”, he said.
The German government writes away Stutgarder Nachriten, from 2014 to 2018, has supported Kosovo with a total of 179,33m euros. The money has gone towards developing infrastructure, economy and reforms in administration and judiciary, but also to help combat organised crime and crime.
In addition to this direct financial assistance from Germany, Kosovo has received more than 350m euros from the European Union within 2014. Meanwhile, for the one-year period, 2018-19, the European Union has projected financial assistance of 295.3m euros for Kosovo.
According to the German newspaper Stutgarder Nachrichten's article, financial injection from the European Union for Kosovo constitutes almost a third of Kosovo's state budget.
