Kurti: We have no date when we can apply for EU membership

Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti has stated they do not yet have a date on which they plan for candidate country status in the European Union. But Kurti has said they will do so this year and has found that new geopolitical developments impose a acceleration towards this step.

However, Kurti has said setting a date would not help government preparations this direction anymore.

“We have said that we will do this this year and new geopolitical developments certainly impose an acceleration, but we do not have a date when we will say we will apply for candidate status in the European Union, nor for the Council of Europe. I believe that setting a date now would not help our preparations and it would be objectively impossible because there is much work to get to that point where we have to walk as fast as we can, Kurt said.