Freedom House: Serbia influential in the north

The report of Freedom House for the level of democracy for Countries in Transition, published on Wednesday, has listed Kosovo in the group of transitional democracy regimes.

At one of the points published in this report -- most precisely in the functioning of governance -- is indicated by Serbia's Freedom House in northern Mitrovica and unable to influence Kosovo institutions there.

Serbia still maintains the influence in northern Kosovo, where Kosovo institutions have no strong presence. Russian, Chinese and Turkish governments have also exerted influence on government processes in Kosovo in recent years” becomes known in this report.

Furthermore, it becomes known that the Kurti Government, although making key decisions during the year, did so with limited transparency and without consulting the Assembly.

“Against the adoption of the Law on Access to Public Documents in 2010, which aimed to make government documents available on request, government institutions often reject those requests with little or no reasoning”, further in the report.

In the report, it is also cited as lifting schooling fees for students attending the Bachelor and master degree at Kosovo public universities.

One of the key points in this report is cited as, like, “in June, Kurti met with Serbian President Aleksandar Vuciq, launching a new round of Kosovo-Serbia dialogue mediated by the EU a series of diplomatic meetings aimed at normalising relations between the two countries after Kosovo's declaration of independence in 2008. The process stalled again in July, and the talks had not been resumed until the end of”.