EU seeks dynamics in Kosovo dialogue ? Serbia, message for new government

He has made these statements at the Third Economic Forum, which is held in Albania's capital, Tirana.

This forum is organised through video connection, due to the health crisis caused by the coronary pandemic.

He has said that, for both Serbia and Kosovo, it is essential to use the current opportunity to make progress in the dialogue.

This process must continue once institutions are formed in Kosovo,” it has declared.

According to Varhely, the EU expects co-operation with Kosovo's new government, which must be formed after parliamentary elections held on February 14th this year, which has won Albin Kurt's Vetevendosje Movement.

“We hope to see greater political stability in the coming period so that Kosovo can accelerate the reform process, including rule of law and socio-economic development,” has said, among other things.

As for the visa liberalisation process, Varhely has said he believes Kosovo has met all conditions for visa removal.

“Anyway, not all member states are convinced of that. Therefore, we call on the Kosovo authorities to contact those countries to regulate this”.

At the level of the Western Balkans, Varhely has said on a panel called “Delayed promises” that the European Union has pledged that the entire region will be part of the European bloc and that it is working to accomplish this.

Also part of the panel have been officials from Serbia, Northern Macedonia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

“Reforms have often been slow, that is why some EU countries have questioned the essence of the whole process, and therefore have not agreed to speed it up. On the other hand, very often the European Union has failed to provide unanimous positive answers when our partners succeed, implement the promised reforms”, it has declared.

The European Union's Enlargement Commissioner has said that Brussels' current priority is to provide vaccines for the Western Balkans region as soon as possible.

“We are using 70m euros in aid -- a measure we have approved in December for these purposes. The region will receive a large quantity of vaccines through COVAX initiative, in which the EU is one of the largest, while we support the region to prepare for the vaccine process, he has declared.

Kosovo continues to be the only country in Europe that has not started the vaccine process.