Acting Prime Minister Albin Kurti has stated that Kosovo will lose millions of euros if international agreements are not approved and the country goes to early elections. He accused the former opposition parties of not being present in the plenary hall, while emphasizing that “there is no economic crisis in Kosovo because there are no citizen protests, only complaints from the opposition.”
In the extraordinary session of the Assembly, he also stressed the need to establish the four permanent parliamentary committees.
“A zero-percent interest loan is something any country would envy at any time. It shouldn’t even be debated whether it should be approved or not. Here in our case, it has been awaiting ratification for more than a year. If there is something that could go down in history, it is this: a zero-percent interest loan has been waiting for ratification for a year, when there should have been no discussion at all. Any country in the world would envy such a loan at any time. If it is not ratified in this session and the country goes to elections, then these funds—90 million euros, which our government has worked hard for—will be lost. Many other countries are waiting with open arms for such financing,” he said.Kurti said that the approval of the EU Growth Plan was not possible under the previous legislature.
“It was not possible to process it under the previous legislature of the Assembly. The finalized standard format agreed upon for the instrument for reforms in Kosovo was sent to us on November 15 in electronic form. We completed the signing as soon as it physically arrived in Kosovo and was received by the government on November 27, and on the same day the draft law was approved by the government. As for the loan agreement, we approved the initiative on November 13, 2024, but the final draft of the agreement was received after the Assembly was dissolved in January 2025. This prevented the agreements from entering into force, and we as a state could not benefit from the 7% pre-financing, as well as the sums allocated for implemented reforms. Since the deadlines are fixed and time is passing, I invite you to vote for the approval of these draft laws so that we can benefit from this instrument. Time is not a renewable resource; it passes into the past irreversibly. Any delay complicates both the benefit and the implementation of the funds,” he said. According to Kurti, there is no economic crisis in Kosovo; there are no citizen protests, only opposition complaints“Honorable MPs, there is no economic crisis in Kosovo. Economic growth in the second quarter of this year was 4.5% of the GDP. In the four years that I have served as Prime Minister, and now as acting Prime Minister, growth has never been below 4%. Economic growth is 6%. Therefore, there are no citizen protests, only complaints from the opposition. There is no economic crisis in Kosovo. We are risking a social crisis from the budgetary and financial crisis caused by procedural abuses. Let the procedures not be misused. Let us act responsibly both as representatives of the people and as state officials, as someone who personifies and builds the image of the state as an independent democratic republic. The positions of the parties that are not present, honestly, they have no alibi. If according to them we are delayed, why aren’t they here to take the blame and leave the budget to us and the people?” he added.
Speaking about RTK salaries, Kurti said the government cannot offer another overdraft to RTK, emphasizing the need for the Assembly to approve RTK’s report.
“The government cannot provide an overdraft on top of another overdraft when the founder of RTK itself, which is the Assembly, refuses to allocate the budget,” he said. It is noted that today a session will also be held for the vote on the mandate for Prime Minister, Glauk Konjufca.
