Integration process experts: Kosovo must lobby for visa liberalisation

However, they say there must be continued dialogue and lobbiing on EU member states.

Institute Director E PIK, Demush Shasha, says about RTV Dukagjin that progress in dialogue is key to visa liberalisation, obtaining EU candidate status, even for our advancement in multi-racial organisations, such as the UN and NATO.

“Therefore his [dialog] importance does not cause” to be overestimated, Shasha said.

Meanwhile, international relations connoisseur, Avni Mazrek, is seeing EU member states as the main factor for non-visa liberalisation, not Kosovo, or not meeting the criteria.

“The issue of visa liberalisation is entirely the context of the European Union's functioning. And which in this case shows its fragility in the sense of political decision making in the EU. Kosovo, as far as criteria are concerned, as technocratic is called, has met all criteria. That is not what we are saying, but an EU organ, which is the European Commission, which is the competent body to assess a state whether it has met those criteria, or not, Mahzakre said.

Otherwise, Kosovo continues to be the only country in the Balkans that does not enjoy the right to free movement in the Schengen Zone.