EU deputy chief in Kosovo: Unacceptable tax

The deputy head of the EU Office in Kosovo, Ricardo Serry, has met with the Commission for European Integration, where it discussed the Country Report for 2019.

The deputy head of the EU Office in Kosovo said the biggest problem presented is the failure of the Kosovo Assembly, lack of quorum and delays in sessions.

According to him, this negatively affects the productivity of the Parliament's work.

“I would assess the country that has passed through work, the report covers the period until March 1 year, and this year you have produced many laws, there are polarised situations in the country that have issues related to the functioning of the Assembly, often there is a lack of quorum, lack of voting legislation, lack of structural organisation when calling the Parliament does not long meet these have an impact on the productivity of Kuit”, Serry said.

He said Kosovo should pride itself on the civil society it has because it is extremely active.

“The role of civil society is observed in Kosovo is active, the role that civil society plays is important, and this affects Kosovo's landscape when it has freedom of expression and is positive, and compared to the Kosovo region for this it should boast”, Serry added.

In this report Serry said it is stressed that they are against the 100 per cent tax committed to goods imported from Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

“We are against this because it undermines the overall nature effort for regional co-operation is not sustainable and it is reported in the report”, Serry said.

Another problem he mentioned is the problem with public finances.

“There is a problem with public finances because there is a reverse effect on the country's development of how finances are managed sometimes, and this is at risk for the country's budget balance and the increase in public sector has an impact on the private sector”, he said.

LDK MP Ismet Beqiri said they as the opposition are not tasked with the position of making the voting numbers.

“has become a sort of an ongoing refrain of functioning our institutions. The hearings must never be done properly. We are opposition and are not tasked with making the quorum”, he said.

MP Milaim Zeka said it did not have to have EULEX complete the mandate because it said it has been 1 million times better than the prosecution, Kosovo courts and police.

Your “Your office should have been a little more real than corruption there has been even one of us, but there have been UNMIK administration, EULEX and normally that the main task is ours to carry out. The release of EULEX's mandate is something very negative for me. Bad as EULEX has been, it is 1 million better than the Kosovo Prosecutor, courts and police. I have a tip that you're talking about targeted cases and I think it's pressure on Kosovo courts, that you have to pressure the president, the Prosecutorial Council to find good prosecutors. The charges in Kosovo that are made to each person are 90 per cent political, not on the basis of the evidence, but on the basis of phone calls that he or she says knee to him or to that”, he said.

He said he is ashamed that he is part of this parliament, as according to him, it is not a country that is completely dysfunctional. He said that even when they vote they do it only formally.

AAK MP Donika Kadaj, as Kosovo is being treated unevenly compared to other states.

Kosovo's “Treatment is quite different, don't use other terms not to say we are being discriminated against, but we are being treated equally. We don't see a chagrin to reach an agreement, as a will to reach an agreement is not seen from Serbia. Kosovo because of Serbia has been unable to membership in Interpol”, she said.