Accession to the KiE “could have fate as visa liberalisation”

If Kosovo does not take immediate steps towards forming the Association of Serb majority municipalities, its expectation of membership in the Council of Europe ( The KiE will be transformed into a <x0-long option” and with “const high”, Demush Shasha of the Kosovo Institute for European Policy says.

If he's going to step in this direction, it's not clear right now. The interest of Radio Europe Free in the issue did not answer the Kosovo government, nor did the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Diaspora.

The issue of association left Kosovo outside the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers on 17 May, when it would also be decided on the country's membership in the organisation.

The condition of some of its member states, including France and Germany, was for Kosovo to bring at least a draft state of Western diplomats for Association to an assessment to the Constitutional Court.

Just 24 hours before the ministers of the Council of Europe, Kosovo Foreign Minister Donika Gervala, said the country is preparing one Their own draft statusbased on the pattern of a German organization, to be delivered to the Constitutional by the end of May.

Its announcement did not change developments in the KiE, because it was considered Late.

Consequently, Gervala said Kosovo's “bid lost automatically Currentity and Survey”.

REL asked MPJD if this means giving up draft-status drafting, but no response was given.

“may have delay, but no rescue”

Shasha says that if the Kosovo government does not send the draft state to the Constitution, as it pledged, there will be consequences for Kosovo itself.

According to him, by not taking concrete steps, the country risks heading towards a situation similar to that of 2016, when it did not ratify the border demarcation agreement with Montenegro.

Ratification of this agreement from the Kosovo Assembly was a condition for lifting the EU visa regime for Kosovo citizens.

As a result, Shasha says, Kosovo lost nearly 8 years, until it secured visa-free travel from January 1st this year.

He says that a similar situation can happen with KiE membership A leadership organization on the continent for human rights.

Moreover, he adds, the situation could affect Kosovo's international credibility as well as contain it in other integration processes.

The formation of Association, Shasha says, “is inevitable”.

From this job, another epilogue. As the popular word says, there may be delay, but salvation does not exist. All political maneuvers may be proven, but fleeing from responsibility for establishing association, there is no”, he says.

For Belgzim Camberi, from the Institute for Social Policy “Mousine Cocolari” in Pristina, Kosovo already missed the opportunity it had to use for membership in KiE.

Now, here's a kind of misunderstanding and profound contradiction between Quint. The US, United Kingdom, Germany, France and Italy] and the Government of Kosovo, about which draft [the Association] state is talking about”, Kamberi says about Radio Free Europe.

According to him, the fact that Kosovo did not send the draft Association to the Constitutional Court also testifies to the cost of refusing in the KiE.

“... so, it is not at all willing to establish the Association or is challenging in the sense that for it [Kosovo government], the establishment of association in exchange with the Council of Europe is small dreary”, Kamber says without specifying more.

Taking into account developments on the ground, connoisseurs of political issues, however, are sceptical of any rapid concrete step towards establishing association.

In Kosovo, more and more, early elections are being discussed.

The European Union is also in the phase of the election process, in which some of the main figures of EU institutions are active.