First week of Kurti Government: What were the prime minister's first actions?

Immediately the next day of February 3rd, Kurt took over from former chief of our diplomacy, Mr. Pacolli Behgjet.

With a ceremony in which the Kosovo anthem roared and Kosovo flaged, Kurti was taking on the long-standing task, writes Periscopi.

He already had all the names of ministers and deputy prime ministers, while continuing to lack the names of national deputy ministers and co-ordinators.

Re-increasing number of deputy ministers

So far, only the name of a deputy minister in Albin Kurti government is known: Jedal Svechla. Svechla became famous after seeing coffee at a Tirana conference with the director of the so-called Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Mr. Marcus Djuric.

But Kurt immediately increased the number of deputy ministers by simply word of mouth, fearing citizens for further growth in the future.

Initially, there were two deputy ministers for the ministry, and these were 12. But from 24 numbers automatically went to 30 when the number of ministries increased to 15.

However, in agreement with LDK, Mr. Kurt again increased the number of deputy ministers to 33 by causing some ministries to have more than two deputy ministers.

Meanwhile, after a meeting with the chief of the EU Office in Kosovo, the number of deputy ministers, according to Kurti himself, would be “around 35”.

With a similar number, the Haradinaj government had begun, but then it had grown steadily.

Review of incumbent Prime Minister Haradinaj's decisions

Albin Kurti had announced that all appointments and in general Prime Minister Haradinaj's decisions following his resignation on 19 July would be considered.

This, in fact, does not mean that all decisions will be declared invalid but that decisions that fit it will remain while decisions that do not apply will not remain in force.

The results of such a process are still unknown, which may take a long time.

Tax Repower 100%

The 100% fee towards goods imported from Serbia will eventually be removed.

Kurti promised that such a thing would happen only after the measure of full political, trade and economic reciprocity is imposed with Serbia. This means that Serbia should not pay 100 per cent more expensive for its exports to Kosovo, but that it will in fact not put those products in Kosovo at all.

It is still not known whether this promise will be held or would be distorted in a different approach, generally different than to persuade Serbia to return to the negotiating table with Kosovo in Brussels.

This has put Kosovo in a highly unfavourable diplomatic position by disrupting the first strategy in the fight against its aggressive diplomatic campaign, and on the other hand, continuing what Kurti himself called “kophone” in foreign policy. /Periscope