9 minutes agoCommissioner Kos comes to Pristina on Thursday, holds three meetings with Kurti speaking to the media
Periskopi(2 months ago)
(2 months ago)The EU's number one enlargement number, Marta Kos, will remain in Kosovo on Friday. In fact, Slovenian commissioner, she comes to Pristina on Thursday evening, directly from London, where she has anticipated two meetings during the day.
In Kosovo, meanwhile, it is planning to realise three.
Two of them are with representatives “in office” of institutions.
As Kosova Preiss finds out, one of them, according to an agenda announced by the European Commission, will be the president's chief leader, Albulen Haxhiu, broadcast Periscopi.
Second with the prime minister in office, Albin Kurti. With the latter, as Kosova Preress finds out, there's also a pre-media appearance at 11 to 30.
Kos's third meeting in Pristina is not scheduled to be with representatives of the opposition, but with those of civil society.
Friday's visit to Kosovo will be the first for the EU Enlargement Commissioner, since she took office in 2024. Its agenda does not envision any visits to other countries in the region, before or after staying in Pristina.
Kos had planned a visit to Kosovo on March 12th, but it was canceled due to the political developments of those days President Vjosa Osmani had issued a decree to distribute the Parliament on March 6th, since this state organ failed to elect the head of state one day earlier, when it was the last time to do so.
Friday's visit happens three weeks before new elections held in Kosovo, June 7th
The EU's enlargement commissioner comes to Pristina three days after the strong hopeful statement she made during a meeting of the Western Balkan Group of Friends (including seven Union member states, including non-recognising Kosovo states Slovakia and Greece) in Bratislava, Slovakia, where she said European security is closely linked to the stability of the Western Balkans.
If we don't integrate our neighbourhood into the European Union into this situation, if I call it geopolitical, where for the first time we have destabilising external forces that would like to see us fail in the membership process, they can intervene and then use those places against us, as they are, for example, Russia in Belarus, using migrants as weapons against us. The EU”, she said.
