“Around the planned 2 billion euros has not been realised for four years”

The head of the Kosovo Alliance of Business, Agim Sahini, has said that for these four years, the government has planned budget growth for nearly 800m euros, until nonrealisation catches alarming figures totalling approximately 2 billion euros.

The “Messually around 500m euros per year has been the difference with government government planning and realisation of spending, and in total for these four years this amount is more than 2 billion euros. We as businesses, but also as citizens of this country are very concerned that there are sufficient means in the budget, but they are not spent, it is a major concern. On the other side of the poverty in Kosovo is another major concern that citizens are facing every day, we like the UN have consistently said this fact, and this was then said by the IMF and the World Bank that Kosovo is the poorest country in Europe after Ukraine. Given the high inflation in these four years, the government's failure to respond to this situation, the lack of capital investments, even the fact that there are budgets, Kosovars are living worse than before, and this has been proved by international institutions”, the head of the GDP has stated.

On the other hand by analyzing wages spending that the planning is that in 2025 there will be 916.5m euros, including total growth within 110 euros, Sahin said the largest wage increase has been in 2009.

“If we analyse the increase in inter-year wages that when they increased mostly and their interest in the welfare of citizens, in 2008 wages have increased in Kosovo for 13%, in 2009 they increased 38%. And from 2010 until 2016, they increased by plus 100%. From 2002 to 2023, total public sector salaries have increased by 202%, if compared to inflation as total as from 2002 it is 64%. While making a comparison of salary growth now in this year with inflation proves that inflation is 22% while there is no salary increase and that is a major concern”, the head of the GDP has said.