Government required to not pay border policy to exiles in the coming years

According to this institute, this is an unfair distribution of citizen taxes, subsidising a category of people in good financial condition.

“Raport estimates that paying border officers from the state budget will not have to serve as a practice in the coming years. This is about the fact that it's an unfair distribution of citizen taxes, subsidising a category of people in good financial condition. Instead, in the short term, the Government of Kosovo, The CEC and BKS should enable members of the exiles and foreigners entering Kosovo to pay electronically (KKKS) in order to cut time for waiting at the border. Over the long term, institutions need to make sure that the number of unregistered and flowing cars decreases from 30% to 5%, and thus removes practical obstacles to application for membership in “Green carton”. Kosovo is the only country on Europe's territory that is not a member of the “Green Carton system”, a joint mechanism of 48 states for securing victims of cross-border motor accidents”, the report said.

The GAP survey shows that diaspora spending for border police accounts for about 3% of all spending they make in Kosovo.

“Under conditions outside of pandemic, more than half of the diaspora accomplish three to four visits during the year to Kosovo, where the stay lasts from two to four weeks, carrying out expenses worth about 4.6% of the local Bruto Product, or 328m euros. This is without counting remittances, which average at 620m euros a year. Taking on average annual expenses, diaspora spending for border police accounts for about 3% of all expenses they make in Kosovo”.

The pre-summer government decided to pay the border police for the diaspora, and on 11 August it allocated fivem euros for implementation of the move. According to data from the Kosovar Insurance Bureau, by the end of August 2021, bills delivered by BKS to Thesar for border security officers total 2.4m euros. According to the country of origin, most cars have come from Germany, Switzerland and Austria.