Hundreds of millions of euros more costs for labor and goods and services

Pays and wages have been estimated at 620m euros or 5 percent more than last year, for goods and services of 307m euros or 29 percent more, subsidies and transfers of 600 million euros, or 14 percent more, and for capital expenditures of 789 million euros or 14 percent more than last year.

Economics Professor Muhamet Mustafa says responsibility is often insufficient for spending these means, under which there are also influences from certain groups of interest in sharing these tools.

Former MP Mustafa expresses his concern for budgetary divisions on political lines, for misuse of the budget on infrastructure projects, and for sharing subsidies, which are made by each of the ministries.

The “in infrastructure has been useful, but it has been in our hands for a frontal commitment that exceeds our absorption capacities, and prices especially on these highways are considered to be above the prices of the world market and these two have then had a relative effect on the budget and left little room for investment in education and health that are priority for modern development of the country”, Mustafa says.

Professor Mustafa mentions that Kosovo has a budget package close to the region's countries, but the problem is that many have participants in this budget that sė due those social packages.

According to him, there are not only veterans, but there are many other categories that if made a strict audit would have to be removed from the social package in order to remain more tools for the poor.

Finance Minister Lulzim Rafuna's adviser tells Kosovo that the budget has been distributed according to priorities of the Government programme of the Republic of Kosovo, under which the priority has been given to the goal for education, for health, the one for rule of law as well as infrastructure.

“We have managed to get the budget, which has higher capital expenditures from budgets in all countries in the region. We still have a high share of capital spending, which is a contribution to the country's economy. We continue to share 33 percent of the budget in capital expenditures”, Rafuna claims.

He has appealed to budgetary organisations to advance spending procedures in order to have a stimulus in economic development.

Until half of the calendar year has passed, Rafuna says Kosovo Customs and the Kosovo Tax Administration continue to be the main fillers of the state budget even in this six-month-2019, where incomes are approximately 10 percent more than in the last year, which is an indicator that they will realise the planned revenues by the end of the year.

Even the Customs Administration and the Tax Administration are thus far satisfied with the level of revenues. Besides being above last year's level of revenues, the Customs Administration is over 6 per cent, while ATK over 10 per cent compared to last year and is close to plus one per cent with the planning for this six-month”, he says.

Meanwhile, the expenditures planned for this year compared to last year are 204m euros in justice, defence and public security functions.