Haradinaj government spent over 12m euros on travel abroad during 2018

Over 12.5m euros of Kosovo taxpayers have been spent on official trips abroad by people of power during 2018.

Compared to 2017, there has been a 24.7 per cent increase of these expenditures, or nearly 2.5m euros more, writes today “Koha Ditore”. State institutions have also spent millions on official dinners at home and abroad, making goods and services more than 12 percent in 2018 compared with 2017.

Of the more than 204 million that were spent in 2017, expenditures have increased to 229m euros or 25m euros more during the year we left behind.

According to data released by the Ministry of Finance, only for the expenses of official travel abroad has more than 3.9m euros been spent, much less compared to 2017. That is because 4.7m euros have been spent during 2017. But in contrast with spending there has been an increase in wages for official travel. During 2018, 4.4m euros were spent, while 3m euros were spent in 2017.