Experts: Kosovo-Albania Co-operation in Economy Leaves to Want

The co-operation of Kosovo and Albania in the area of the economy, in implementation, leaves much to be desired. In the legislative aspect it is complete, but business complaints are high in implementation. They thus estimate representatives of the economy, stressing that for the year 2024, such cooperation should be experienced more seriously, creating common policies.

Kosovo and Albania have reached dozens of agreements to strengthen economic co-operation, but business representatives stress that many of them are not implemented in practice. The chairman of the Kosovo Economic Ode, Lulzim Rafuna, says the country's businesses complain of different barriers to Albania over years.

We're missing a government body that would oversee on a strict daily basis to install these agreements. When the two governments are meeting, the two prime ministers are signing the agreements, but implementation is up to civilian staff and there it is due to interpretations. There are agreements that have not yet been implemented, we have numerous complaints from our businesses that export to the shopping point for various barriers, which are not eliminated despite what many agreements have signed”, Rafuna says.

Kosovo and Albania need real dialogue and partnership, estimates to Radio Kosovo, economy connoisseur Safet Gerjaliu. According to him, economic-political co-operation between the two states is at the most critical point.

We can't advance with just one picture from government meetings, but we need to implement these agreements, we need to examine this economy between the two countries, and if it is compared to trade exchange or economic co-operation between the two countries, it would be a trade exchange between two big companies and not between two countries. These reports need to be depoliticised, to have excessive transparency, and in this direction”, Gerjaliu says.

Experts estimate that Kosovo and Albania need to do more in terms of boosting the power of producers so that we do not depend too much on the imports of various countries.