Former EULEX judges chief for WT: Kosovo Freedom in Danger, Save From EU Injustice

British Judge Malcolm Simmons, former head of the EU International Courts since 2014-2017, with an analysis published in the “The Washington Times”, has said EULEX and the judges of Specialised Chambers, coming from different EU countries, must stop. He has said that everything about EULEX and Kosovo's Specialised Chambers in The Hague shows that the EU is not a heavy global burden for managing good international governance and, obviously, is not an example that others would like to imitate.

Simmons has said the United States once helped its friends in Kosovo escape and freed them from ethnic Serb cleaners. And now, when their freedom is threatened again, this time by Europeans ʹ cleansing of democracy, it is time for America to force Europeans to stop because Kosovo freedom is at stake.

Full analysis of former EULEX Court chief published in “The Washington Times”:

Salvation of Kosovo from the democracy of Europe through removal of Law Rule Mission

The reality of EU policy towards Kosovo, where billions of US taxpayers have been spent, is dangerous.

Imagine that the United States helped create a new democratic country in Europe's heart, releasing its people from genocide neighbours, only for the European Union to take over the <x)> construction of the country” and using it to overthrow its chosen leadership.

Imagine that EU-funded judges were placed within this country's justice system to decapitate “his head” to democratic lawmakers, including one whom President Biden described as the country's “George Washington”.

Imagine that the EU's determination to achieve that goal went to manipulation of witnesses to provide “I tested <x1 false> and, even to the destabilisation of a US-led peaceful international process.

This is not a novel by Tom Clancy, but the dangerous reality of the EU's policy towards Kosovo, where for the past 12 years, billions of US taxpayers' dollars have been spent on military assistance and security support, with “under contracting the US” of democratic development of its alleged European allies.

But instead of improving governance, EULEX, “Law Rule Mission” This chronicly dysfunctional EU mission has damaged justice management and ignored the defendants' right to a fair trial. By index Freedom House The United States on democracy, standards of justice and good governance in Kosovo have fallen over the last decade under EULEX scrutiny; even confirmed that the analysis of the Corruption Perceptions Index of International Transparency of Europe has confirmed that.

But improving the rule of law in a country that has emerged from the horrors of war was never the purpose of EULEX and not the purpose of Kosovo Specialised Chambers (KSC), the court with the ridiculous name “kankata”, founded in The Hague, where EULEX's envoy for judgment was placed. Its purpose was always political. The EU had never intended for its “construction of the nation” and, in order to present itself as a global superpower to rival the United States, Kosovo was the answer.

And what answer has been that? By offering “results”, regardless of methods, Europe can demonstrate its status of “Great Power”. The success of EULEX and Specialised Chambers would be determined by the number of sentences. In fact, the EU did not ask for anything less.

Judges from all 27 EU member states gathered to give the mandate. Eastern European Communist countries were their favourites because, as a former chairman of EULEX, they knew what “was expected” from them. Without exception, they gained significantly more than they earned at home, where they were accustomed to working much harder and earn much less. They all wanted this process to continue as long as possible, and most were prepared to do whatever was needed to ensure that they maintained their position.

But the fact that judges coming from poor countries to deliver results under great political pressure also have consequences. The Kosovo Constitutional Court found that EULEX judges had denied defendants their right to a fair trial. An EU mission of “rule of law denies the right to a fair trial?” Could it become even more twisted than that? Could be!

When I and other qualified British legal professionals became signals against corruption and abuses in EULEX, we were charged. In unrealistic incidents, two British judges, contrary to international law, became subject to initial and controlled disciplinary processes by the same people who had accused of bad conduct.

But the worst of all, last summer, until neighbouring Kosovo and Serbia were on the verge of signing a peace agreement in Washington, DC, the EU withdrew. To prevent their great reputation, Kosovo President, the man whom Joe Biden compared to George Washington by correctly alluding to the merits of peace, they deliberately rushed on charges of crimes against humanity against him (even breaking their court's rules through this action), preventing him from flying to the US and almost breaking the entire peace agreement.

The other defendants, currently presented to the tribunal, are there unclearly for accepting documents uncovered by the EU-funded court, while no investigation is under way as to who issued the documents or why they were issued.

It is clear that the EU cannot see the diversity of their actions when it is exposed by a Nixon logic: “When the EU does it, it means it is not illegal” They believe they must exercise the right to teach others how to behave, by any means necessary, if they are to be considered a superpower.

Everything about EULEX and Kosovo Specialised Chambers in The Hague shows that the EU is not a heavy global burden for managing good international governance and, obviously, is not an example that others would like to imitate.

But it's America. The United States once helped its friends in Kosovo escape and free them from ethnic Serb cleaners. Now their freedom is threatened again, this time by Europeans ʹ cleansers of democracy. It is time for America to force Europeans to stop: Kosovo freedom is now at stake.

Judge Malcolm Simmons served as international judge from 2004 to 2017, hearing war crime cases and serious and organised crime. He led in some of the most complex cases of war crime and organised crime in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo during their turbulent post-war periods. He served as president of the International Courts of the EU from 2014 to 2017.