7 hours agoIKD: IKDingu in Kosovo, legally never started
Periskopi(a year ago)
(a year ago)Gzim Shala, senior researcher at the Kosovo Institute for Justice (IKD), has said Kosovo has repeatedly made efforts for justice reform, adding that it is still intended to reform. However, according to him, the path that has been found for reform of the justice system has been made through legislative changes. This has brought judicial uncertainty [...]
Gzim Shala, senior researcher at the Kosovo Institute for Justice (IKD), has said Kosovo has repeatedly made efforts for justice reform, adding that it is still intended to reform.
However, according to him, the path that has been found for reform of the justice system has been made through legislative changes.
“This has brought judicial uncertainty due to amendments to legislation”, Shala said, citing changes in the Penal Code, changes to the Penal Procedure Code, etc.
For all these changes, Shala said there must be will for their implementation. He said both the Prosecutorial Council and the Judicial Council function almost equally legally, but that the advance of the latter is much greater than that of the prosecutorial system, which he said is in the same situation as it used to be.
“Vetting's question, we have had strong promise from the incumbent government, but despite taking some measures, constitutionally and legally it has never started in Kosovo since sufficient bases have been created to begin”, Shala said, Periscope.
He added that this Vetting is supposed to be done only for the leaders of the system, with the goal that this process will clear accounts and make the rest of justice accountable.
Shala spoke in particular about the KPK reform, for which she said the Venice Commission has said there are corruptional compositions, as 10 of its 13 members are from the prosecutorial system and are not expectations that the same colleagues hold accountable.
In addition, Shala cited implementation of the Law Rule Strategy, where she said laws have been adopted contrary to this strategy.
All in the end, IKD researcher cited the political statements of government acts, which he said criticisms and insults that political actors have committed to the justice system cannot be predicted in a country where the law should rule.
Otherwise, the Kosovo Institute for Justice (IKD) and the Southeast European Coalition for Signal Protection, on April 10th and April 11th 2025, with the support of National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and the Programmatic funds of the United Nations Mission in Kosovo organise: “Regional Conference for Signal Protection, Reform in Justice as a catalyst for strengthening the rule of law”, and “The Annual Conference of the Southeast European Coalition for Protection of Signals<5>. At this conference, participants from the region and beyond, including Kosovo, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, northern Macedonia, Serbia, Greece, Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia and other countries, participate.
