Kosovo loses 43m euros from EU, IKD: Only 0.2% of discussions in the country were for European integrations

But, while tens of millions of euros are lost due to the stalled reforms required by Brussels, elected MPs have almost not mentioned this topic in the Kosovo Assembly.

According to the monitoring of the Kosovo Institute for Justice (IKD), from hundreds of discussions and speeches given at the plenary sessions of this legislature, European integrations have been the most ignored and underrated topic by MPs, indiscriminately.

As issues like economics and finances took the top attention with 161 speeches, while procedural debates took second place with 56 speeches, the European agenda remained almost entirely forgotten, writes the Votrim for Justice, Periscopi broadcasts.

Of the 21 topics most discussed in the Assembly, European integrations were unique 0.2% of speeches. The theme was ranked 19th in the frequency of discussions, leaving only agriculture and media freedom behind.

“A considerable part of the speeches, about 11%, belong to procedural issues. This shows that an important segment of parliamentary time has been spent on technical issues, rather than on controlling public policy. At the same time, several areas of high public importance have been dealt with in a very limited way. Kosovo dialogue Serbia and the environment each make up 0.6% of the speeches, the European integrations 0.2%, while the rights of communities 0.4%. Also, there is no complete lack of treatment of certain topics, including gender issues, diaspora and government efficiency, for which no speech has been recorded”, says the report published by IKD, “X Legislate Manager”.

“instead of European integration gaining more space in a period when Kosovo was negotiating the benefit of hundreds of millions of euros from the European Union, the opposite happened. Compared to Legislate V III, parliamentary attention to this subject dropped from 4.49% to only 0.2%, subtracting it from the main topics of debate on one of the most neglected topics in the Parliament”, the IKD report said.