SAA not implemented, institutions criticised

He in a proposal for Online Economics said Kosovo has failed to make reforms in most areas required with this agreement.

The European Reform Agent “was launched in November 2016 and now three years later, only 5 priorities have been fully fulfilled by 22, which means it is statistical or second indicator, which shows there is a deep lack of political will to implement The MSA at”, he said.

Kosovo's <x0 institutions, now three-and-a-half years of implementation of the SAA, have shown a poor concentration of the Stabilisation and Association Agreement, and when I say this, I say that given its reports of institutions, from the government's recent annual report on implementation of the MSA, the institutions themselves have acknowledged that 1/3 of the obligations that were required to be fulfilled during 2018, so this is the first statistics showing that there is a lack of political will to implement reforms on the Integrated road to Kosovo, is a lack of political will to implement the key priorities that have emerged from the European Reforms.

He says the impasse has taken place in the area of rule of law, because despite the demand for progress in the area against corruption and organised crime, there has been no eventual case of high-level corruption.

“Yes in 2018 it has been a year that have characterised two to say the impasses in the first two main areas is the area of the rule of law where even in the context of the visa liberalisation process for progress in the field against corruption and organised crime, we have had no single case of high-level corruption completed into the framework of our second judicial system is the Public Administration, which means what we have seen during 2018 is the unpredented and marginalisation of the Public Administration of Public Institutions, we have had no single case of independent institutions starting with the prosecutorial system to say, each of the cultural monuments, the political agency, and the political policy policy policy policy policy policy policy policy has caused the most of the process, and the most significant of the process has been stated.

He says worrying is the disparity of their means and exploitation despite promises, because according to him, the 5.5m-euro stake now should be in Kosovo's budget.

“Despite the signing of the agreement now more than two years no cent has been given to Kosovo to spend these means, despite the fact that the agreement says after the signing immediately the first payment is made, since 25m euros are divided in installments so the first tranche worth 5.5m euros is only needed to be in the treasury in Kosovo's budget, which has not happened. We have also seen in August 2018 with a review of financial arrangements, Kosovo lost 40m euros and several million euros as a consequence of lack of capacity to implement reforms. A few months ago, an extremely important investment in environmental protection has been cancelled, so you're seeing a total lack of institutions taking seriously the reforms of the SAA”, it has meant it.

The Hoxha Group for Jury and Political Studies (GLSP) says 64 per cent of the previous measures have been implemented in full or 24.6 per cent of them. “The SAA implementation for 2018 was accompanied by different percentages, it could be said that 64 percent of the previous measures were implemented in full or then 24.6 percent of the measures have been fulfilled in part, while about 11 percent of the measures are either incomplete or we have failed to reach the answers from concrete institutions regarding their fulfillment”.

According to her, failure to implement these measures is due to lack of good co-ordination among ministries.

It is important to understand that the implementation of measures does not depend solely on a state institution of the Republic of Kosovo, so the ministries must have good co-ordination with regard to implementing these measures has been identified that poor co-ordination or co-ordination between ministries has caused these measures not to be implemented then some of these measures have been deemed feasible since the beginning of their creation or were named to be very ambitious for the environment in which Kosovo is located at the moment and the lack of political will in most of the legislative measures which have stalled for their implementation due to the existence of the political will that existed in front of the EUHogan.

The SAA is the first contractual agreement between Kosovo and the European Union, which entered into force on 1 April 2016. Through this agreement, the European Union seeks from a country aimed at EU membership, to ensure that its governing mechanisms and civil society meet EU standards.