Kurti's Social Democracy, road success or utopia that jeopardises Kosovo's future

It says: Shenoll Muharremi

Prime Minister Kurti had today declared that “ (Kosovo) as Socialist and Social Democrat state”. He said that. KM today in a speech at NYC. This impressed me that it has to do with our country's orientation and its future. Certainly Albin Kurti himself sees Kosovo as a Socialist state and Social Democrat.

Basically, there's nothing wrong with that. So being a social Democrat country is very good because you have the best distribution of welfare and equal opportunities. Consequently, from this idealological base, Kurt today also develops and runs public government policy in Kosovo.

In this framework and in the last few years, the government and Kurti made public budget sharing and also decided on investments where to go and where not. All public policies apply to this paradigm. That's what social policies have peaked as those assisting businesses are lower sometimes compared to percentages of budget/resursives.

We have a contextal problem here. Since it's good to be a social-democrat country, you're first needed after the change to become a social. You need to get rich once, and then what you're distributing to me. Otherwise you're risking losing everything you got.

What does that mean? That means if you're a poor country and if you're sharing social aid, you're making the country even poorer. So social-democracy is not good ideology and model for poor countries with small economies and budgets. For Sweden it works very well, for Kosovo not. At least not at this stage.

So, as the victim of this ideology in the wrong context, we deepen poverty. How is this done? This is done precisely by increasing social aid, which now exceeds 30% of Kosovo's public budget. And these tools, instead of heading for private businesses and sector growth, they stimulate consumption. And in Kosovo's economic structure, import increases, local businesses punish with these policies and decisions.

That's exactly what happened. By reducing capital investments and the private sector and businesses and increasing social aid, import has doubled within several years. The worst, even the commercial deficit that has now reached 5 billion euros, or 50% of the annual economy, has doubled. This means that half of our economy is running away, losing, abroad every year.

As a result, poverty is growing, Kosovars are migrating abroad with tens of thousands of people a year, and we are not having foreign investments. Inflation is destroying the purchasing power of families who are already on their knees.

Social democracy, or leftist policies in a bad economic context, is ruining the country and the economy from within. Therefore, social democracy is not for countries and poor economies. First you have to help the economy and the private sector and then have what to share. And when you spend the little resources you have and you come to politics that doesn't help your economy and businesses, you're destroying and weighing the economy even more.

So it's not easy to become Social Democrat. You have to work and earn that money and resources you want to share with others who haven't earned it. And if you constantly sweat your business and pay nothing back, you're destroying the ark that makes your bread available.

In the end, if it goes on like this, we will have no business or state, that the government cannot work without businesses. For him, it initially increased and empowered businesses and the private sector, then become social-democrat. There's nothing wrong with social-democratia, but this has to be gained in sweat, it's not a solution anyone wants to make. Otherwise, the social-deocracy in Kosovo's current economic context risks all of us ending up equal... but equal in poverty.