Kurte ends “Honey Month”

“Pensions have reduced them, and promised to raise 150 euros. Additions to children have promised, but they have not begun to apply, nor are they addressed. The difference from other governments is only in the process of talks with Serbia, which has set several conditions. This is very good”, Stublla told Radio Free Europe.

The former government led by Avdullah Hoti, due to the pandemic caused by the Coronavirus, had decided to raise basic pensions for three months (January, February, March), worth 30 euros a month. Basic pensions in Kosovo are 90 euros a month, and with this increase, benefits of aging pensions have received between 120 euros a month. In April of this year, the government led by Albin Kurti has interrupted this addition. Finance and Transfers Minister Hekur Murati had said in April, which, according to the decision of the past government, “after March and beyond, the additions were meant to stop at a total of”.

Even Besart Aslan, over 30th, working in the private sector, says citizens' expectations of fulfilling promises by Kurti Government have been greater. Kosovo's problems have accumulated for years, he says, and according to him it is difficult to find a solution soon, especially for unemployment.

The unemployment rate, according to official data, amounts to 24.6 percent, or over 120 thousand people are unemployed.

I don't think he did anything, but expectations are too big. I believe there will be increased employment, improved economic situation. Perhaps the terrain is inappropriate for Prime Minister Kurti. However, I believe in his work, I believe there will be improvements because he is still uninjured, and I do not want to fail because the consequences are paying citizens”, he said.

Durime Bajrami, 22, from the town of Podujevo, says 100 days is not enough to assess the work of Prime Minister Kurti. She mentions good management of the situation with the pandemic caused by the coronary.

I appreciate it. Maybe he just needs some more time. But, for starters it's pretty good”, she said.

One hundred days is counted as a measure period of one government's work. The government Kurti was formed on 22 March, following general elections held on February 14th, where the Vetevendosje Movement has won 50.28 or 58 seats in the Kosovo Assembly.

PDK: Boarding Purges

Opposition subjects in the Kosovo Assembly are criticising the work of Kurti Government during this period. According to them, the government led by Kurti has failed in domestic governance and foreign policy.

Xhavit Haliti, MP from the opposition party, the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK), said that in the past quarter, the most executive has dealt with “passport” of boards in independent agencies. As for the economic situation, the fight against corruption and economic crime, as the main promises of the Vetevendosje Movement, during the election campaign, according to him, nothing is seen in practice.

There's no movement and effort. But, what is necessary for the Government of Kosovo, in the circumstances that Kosovo is, because it is under particular circumstances, should co-operate with all domestic and external factors, to create state policies, in the interest of state and strategic alliances, and not individual policies”, Halit told Radio Free Europe.

LDK: Non-containor dialogue

The Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) has criticised the executive, for foreign policy, for vaccinating citizens against COVID-19 disease and nepotism.

Albanian Medici, co-ordinator of the Department for Foreign Policy in the LDK, said the Government of Kosovo during this period has approached dialogue with the state of Serbia, without any platform, calling this process an uncontained dialogue.

Kosovo's “government approached dialogue with Serbia without a platform, for vision, for time terms and key results intended to reach the international agreement. The damage to international credibility. The Kosovo government made efforts to flee obligations stemming from the Washington Agreement through its interpretation of this agreement as legally invalid. Kosovo's government must prove that it is working closely with the United States on this and many other questions”, Medici stressed.

Government officials, until the moment this report is published, have not presented any stance.

Speak: Kurti Government, the only one who didn't publish the Labor Plan

Government organisation “speaks” monitors governments based on their Work Plan. Erblin Hoxha, the project co-ordinator in the organisation, said the Kurti Government, in its 100 days of work, is the only one that so far, has not published the Labour Plan, for three months.

“Although they have published the government's plan for the next four years, we are unable to make an assessment of activities that they plan to invest in in 2021. So the government's task plan has not yet been published. For us this is very disturbing because it enables the government to make ad-hoc decisions on specific questions”, Hoxha says about Radio Free Europe.

However, Hoxha stresses that in terms of foreign policy, with the new government, the process of dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia, which is being carried out with the ease of the European Union, has taken a new approach.

So far we appreciate that Kosovo's foreign policy, in relation to dialogue, has a new dynamic and we think it is much more positive than the complete process of normalising Kosovo-Serbia relations. This process is going with greater dynamics and more positive in direction than it has so far been”, he added.

Kurti, whose government was voted into the new Kosovo Assembly, has said dialogue with Serbia is not part of his priorities. He has even warned the establishment of reciprocity against this country. But during these 100 days, dialogue with Serbia has been the focus of the executive he leads.

On 15 June, Prime Minister Kurti first met with Serbian President Aleksandar Vuciq.

Kurti has warned and voiced determination that his government will prepare indictments against Serbia for genocide. Establishing the indictment against Serbia is one of the issues expected to be realised under the governing programme. The indictment, according to Kurti, is expected to be filed by the International Court of Justice.

Otherwise, over 100 days, the Kurti Government has managed to sign its first contract with Pfizer Company for the purchase of 1.2 million doses of the vaccine against Coronobrus.

The executive has also adopted concept-document on the issue of property acquired unwarrantably. This concept-document defines property acquired with the conduct of criminal acts, as the chief driver of criminality. This asset provides the chief of criminal acts with a source for continuing criminal activity.

Also, during these 100 days, no decision has been lacking on the dismissal of public enterprises and independent agencies. Among the decisions, there has been the dismissal of the board of Kosovo Privatisation Agency (AKP).

The Kosovo government at the latest meeting has approved the budget worth 2.5 billion euros.

Fighting corruption and employment, vaccinating 60 percent of the population against COVID-19 by the end of the year, increased production and export, as well as empowering public enterprises are the priorities of Albin Kurti, whose party, Vetevendosje Movement, won the 14 February elections.