Crisis in the north of concern for businesses, government ignoring local producers

The head of the Kosovo Alliance of Business (AKB), Agim Sahin, the situation in the north calls cancer and danger zone for the Western Balkans.

He says the crisis there is a hostage to wrong policies and images of Kosovo in the international arena.

Currently, the north of Kosovo has become the cancer and the most dangerous area in the Balkans in terms of Kosovo's image, investment and integration. It's a hostage to the wrong local and international policies, and this is what the economy is suffering because the world's most prestigious newspapers have conveyed the northern event, and especially those scenes that ruthlessly attack KFOR peacekeeping soldiers”.

“This sends a bad image to us because there is no Kosovo sovereignty there, where Kosovo institutions have oversight, but the legal and criminal institutions of various countries at the helm with Serbia”, Sahin says.

Sahin has demanded that operations in the north be done with co-ordination with international partners. He says Kosovo faces a crossroads of isolation and sanction.

“I think our policy has been brought in a non-public way, but constitutionally rightly and these are things that should be harmonised with the international factor. The lack of co-ordination with the international factor, especially the United States of America”.

No action should be taken by Kosovo institutions in the morning without consulting tonight with our ally friends. This is costing us and Kosovo is facing a deep and large crossroads of isolation and sanctions”, Sahin says away.

Compared to the challenge with the north, the company for shoe production “Solid”, he's in trouble with the state.

The owner of this company, Shefqet Kuci, says of Online Economy, that Kosovo institutions are not buying boots and shoes for police and army.

Our company's “Even though the first thing gets imported, we still do. We've got about 290 workers, we've managed again to stop production, even though it was pandemic we haven't stopped it yet. Over 76 percent of us export, work on the known frogs, France, Italy, Germany, and many other countries”.

The biggest problem here that as a company torments us is that while we export over 76 percent and Europe welcomes our production, then why Kosovo doesn't use our products, and in particular I want to talk about the state, because our institutions don't get boots for police and army. The shoe also for institutions does not get”, Kuci said.

He has declared that earlier, these equipment for justice institutions has offered at a price of 24 euros the piece.

“We have information that they take it from that country that they've constantly taken, we've produced a time for police to get the shoe, the boot, but many cases we've taken at a 24-euro price, which is a ridiculous price compared to what (prim) they took”, he said.