2 hours ago300m euros more imports from Serbia during Kurti government
Periskopi(4 years ago)
(4 years ago)Ramush Haradinaj during the time he was prime minister of the Republic of Kosovo had imposed the 100% tax measure on Serbia's products. This had caused Kosovo's import from Serbia to mark a drastic decline. According to statistics based on data from the Kosovo Statistics Agency in 2019, Kosovo had imported [...]
Following Ramush Haradinaj's departure from the prime minister's position, Vetevendosje Movement leader Albin Kurti, who made a decision to lift the tax after major international pressure and promised that it would be replaced with the measure of reciprocity.
However, such a reciprocity measure was never decided, even though Prime Minister Albin Kurti a few days before his second arrival in the position of government chief had said it would be a matter of days and weeks and no months.
It's a matter of days, weeks and no months. I don't know what the sequence is now, but it's one of the first things we're going to do”, Kurt said in 2021.
Meanwhile, between 2019 and 2021, Kosovo's import from Serbia has increased for 300m euros. According to data from the Kosovo Statistics Agency, from 6 million in 2019, has reached 306 million in 2021.
The Vetvendosje Movement as the opposition party had organised shares in Merdare, where it had also turned trucks with Serbian goods coming to Kosovo. They even organized the “Love Tent” campaign with the aim of promoting local products.
