Elections to slow Kosovo integration processes

International affairs acquaintance Africa Hoti says of Online Economy that Serbia can exploit this situation to implement negative plans towards Kosovo.

The “Dinamic of development is markedly slow and this obviously without any dilemma can be used by other actors to accelerate their agenda, primarily Serbia, so to implement any poor, negative plan that they have so far had for Kosovo”, he says.

Hoti adds that the situation created after Haradinaj's resignation and the possibility of moving to new elections will negatively affect Kosovo's path to European integration, membership in international organisations, visa liberalisation, and dialogue.

If we have this situation then it is quite understandable that the agenda for both European integration and foreign policy with special emphasis on the country's membership in the international organisation has been marked by a deadlock”, he says.

And to continue the normal course of these processes, he sees as a priority for ending the Kosovo-Serbia dialogue, which would lead to Kosovo's membership in the EU and the UN.

“I think that the first and foremost issue of conclusion of reports or a final agreement to remove any dilemma Kosovo has in presenting as the subject of international law. This is achieved in the process of dialogue and opening paths and ways for Kosovo membership, whether as an equal subject in the EU, taking the seat at the UN”, he says.

Before all, however, Hoti says that the country urgently needs to address internal issues.

“How close this priority of Kosovo will be, the country urgently needs to start addressing internal issues, starting with economic development in the first place, from the beginning of new jobs for young people who are currently without perspective and other sectors, such as health, education, and a list of our entire” needs, he says.

Hoti said the new composition in the European Parliament will not change its view regarding Kosovo.

“The changes of leadership in the EU I don't see that they can bring any deviation from this path, because it is the interest of the Western Balkans to be in the EU, just as it is the European interest to have the Western Balkans in their Bay”, he says.