8 minutes agoKosovo to empty after visa liberalisation, connoisseurs say
Periskopi(3 years ago)
(3 years ago)The European Parliament on Tuesday gave the green light to visa liberalisation for Kosovo citizens, after more than 12 years of waiting. The removal of the visa regime means free movement, and although it does not provide the opportunity to work abroad, experts consider Kosovo can be emptied after liberalisation. university professor, Bashkim Mustafa, [...]
The removal of the visa regime means free movement, and although it does not provide the opportunity to work abroad, experts consider Kosovo can be emptied after liberalisation.
University professor Bashkim Mustafa says the Kosovo government has not invested enough in the labour market.
Through some statistics, Mustafa drew a comparison with northern Macedonia and Albania, where hundreds of thousands of people have fled the country after visa liberalisation, in search of a better job in the European Union states.
The country's “government has never seriously treated the labour market in the country, I have released some statistics on how liberalisation has affected the labour market both in northern Macedonia and Albania. According to INSTAT within 10 years, the population in Albania has been reduced to 7.5% or 42,000. Within 10 years over 200,000 residents have chosen their working statute in the EU. Almost the same has happened in northern Macedonia, where for a decade over 230,000 people have made permanent solutions and migrated to the EU. Starting with these statistics and the promises of frustration our citizens have on the job market in the country, Kosovars' movements will be the same or even more than those of neighbouring countries”, Professor Bashkim Mustafa has declared in T7.
Even according to Kosovo Business Alliance Chairman Agim Sahin, the labour market will suffer major shocks after January next year, when the visa liberalisation law is even in place.
He has called for the private sector to improve the working conditions so that the citizens' flight will be downplayed.
“The labour market will be disturbed since Kosovo citizens will move freely to the states of the European Union, given that Germany as the largest state when Kosovars migrate by the end of this year will largely liberalise the employment potential there, and that will greatly endanger the departure of our workers. If we, mainly the private sector, fail to improve the working conditions by the end of this year then the labor market will really suffer severe shock”, the first of the GDP, Agim Sahin, has added.
The official document enabling Kosovo free movement was signed Wednesday in Strasbourg, France.
Kosovo had long met the conditions for liberalisation, but the process stalled for several years.
