Metro: Prime Minister Kurti has eventually rejected US gas-compliance, ignoring Kosovo's interests

The Biden administration had officially allocated $200m in cash for this investment.

President Biden's administration in 2021 had introduced Kosovo to federal agency budget The MCC, where it was foreordained for Kosovo to benefit $200m in irreversible dollars to build the gas-transferer to northern Macedonia and Greece, where it would then be connected to the TAP network (Trans-Adriatic Pipeline) or other sources.

Experts had seen the project as an attempt to diversify gas infrastructure from the Russian monopoly in the Balkans.

According to an announcement sent to Congress in 2019, The MCC has demanded $6.9m for the cost of research and processing projects in Kosovo, where two key projects were construction of the Kosovo Republic gas infrastructure. This announcement is on the site of the MCC's final Kosovo Compact.

In a letter dated 26 August 2020 to former Prime Minister Hoti, MCC Deputy Chairman Jonathan Brooks has demanded that Kosovo select the projects desired for compact, based on American studies. Kosovo's government has confirmed that gas-pronger is a strategic project of interest, and now one year the American side, including the Army Corps of Engineering, has been involved in gas-force planning.

This whole thing now falls into the water because of the government's refusal, Kurt. Minister Rizvanolli at a news conference has stated that the final decision has not been taken, but according to the sources of Metro Journal, this seems not true.

According to the DTT news agency, Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti has met with Greece's Minister Nikos Dendias on 13 July to speed up conversations about gas that would potentially come from the port of Alexandropoulos in Greece to Pristina in exchange for recognising Greece.

Even Serbian President Vuciq had expressed the possibility that such a thing would happen.

Kosovo's “Recognition by Greece would be very bad news for Serbia,” ) it was expressed.

A Kosovo Government official involved in negotiations with the MCC has already confirmed that “Prime Minister Kurti has suggested he is afraid of American gas-reference and that there is no economic or political element that is not favourable for Kosovo. The prime minister's only fear is that with this investment, the possibility of conditioning for final agreements in dialogue would be strengthened. So this project is now close to failure for reasons that have nothing to do with Kosovo's geostrategic and economic interests”.

It remains to be seen the American side's reaction, as well as the EU, to Vetevendosje's plans that turn the aid point zero even during the Biden administration, but also the Trump, which had brought “energy diversification” into the Washington Agreement.