Raise prices in Kosovo, citizens complain: Not worth 200 euros.

Citizens complain of continuing prices of food items, maintenance, and clothing, saying that such a thing is only making their economic situation worse.

Citizens complain of continuing prices of food items, maintenance, and clothing, saying that such a thing is only making their economic situation worse.

The overall harmonised consumer prices index, according to the Kosovo Statistics Agency, is higher at an average of 2.2 percent in February of this year, compared to February 2023, while monthly inflation was 0.1 percent in February 2024.

Citizens Zecir Buzuk tells Kosovo Press that the prices of articles in general are extremely high, and that a small pension is barely achieved.

Every day they grow up... I'm getting there, how we're doing that really hard, especially those of us who're retired are very hard... No one thinks about us, like we're technological surpluses, before we get out of here, the problem is very, very hard. Thankfully, there is still solidarity among us, and it helps a family, because with a pension there is no chance of living a week, you can't,” said Buzuku.

Even Avni Bikliqi says that with a salary of 200 euros today, you can't make it to yourself, and that it's not about families or other things.

We've made it, but not yet. With 200 euros you're not making it, I don't feel like I'm doing it for myself, not for my family, and for other”, he said.

Yet, another citizen, Miran Cateazi, says that 50 percent of the population are unemployed, while the prices of the articles have increased by 100 percent, adding to the burden of their economic situation.

“Prices are expensive because between 20 and 30 percent have been initially, now this year is 100 percent expensive... Whoever works does something, doesn't work at all. 50 percent of people are unemployed in Kosovo, and for them it's even difficult to make ends meet with”, Kaitazi has followed.

Kastrati Mustaf says there is no greater phenomenon than price hikes.

I'm with a pension. There is no greater sight... I'm leaving, which six years of pensions haven't raised, and I've been granted minimum wage pension for 12 years. Albin's doing so good, they don't even think we're getting rid of him. This alone will reflect, has power and now you think it will always go like this. Many have increased prices”, it has indicated.

The ASK reports that the expensive is observed with the rise of consumer prices in this period in groups and subgroups of COICOP, electricity 11.5%, alcoholic beverages 11.2%, trees 10.1%, fish 9.4%, solid fuels, firewood, diapers, 8.3%, goods and services for the usual maintenance of the domestic economy 7.7%, mineral water, non-alcoholic beverages, trees and vegetables 6.5%, flight tickets 6.3%, sugar, jam, honey, chocolate and candy 6.2%.