For four years, the government has allocated around 30 million euros for Trepça, criticizes the former Minister of Finance
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About 30 million euros have been allocated to the public enterprise Trepça by the Government of Kosovo in the last four years. A few days ago, from the Economic Revitalization Package, the current government allocated over 4 million euros for the miners' salaries, who have not received them for three months now.
Although this enterprise should contribute to production for self-financing and filling the Kosovo budget, but due to poor management, the government is forced to support it financially.
This is how the former Minister of Economy and Finance, Haki Shatri, assesses, while mentioning that the current government has failed in the management of public enterprises.
While listing some of the failures of the Kurti government during this mandate, Shatri emphasizes that the management, board of directors and executive leadership have been changed several times, with the aim, as he said, of appointing sympathizers of the ruling party to these positions.
In a written response to KosovaPress, from the Office for Public Communication at the Trepça enterprise, they inform that in 2021 the government of Kosovo has allocated nearly 8 million euros, the same in 2022. Meanwhile, in 2023 it had allocated over 8 million euros.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Finance, Labor and Transfers has not answered for KosovaPress on what legal basis and purpose it continues to subsidize Trepça. Even economic experts consider that Trepça and some public enterprises have remained a burden for the Government, since they do not perform well.
The head of the Trepça Miners' Union, Ibrahim Januzi, told KosovaPress that they welcomed this decision to allocate funds from the Economic Revitalization Package, even though, according to him, it is late.
According to Januz, the funds of 4 million euros, for which the government of Kosovo has allocated, will cover the needs for salaries of miners until December of this year.
Meanwhile, Shatri for KosovaPress points out that the current government has made the most serious failures in the field of economic development. According to him, there is a drastic delay in the construction of economic infrastructure, the increase of wages and the raising of the standard of living.
