{"id":31860,"date":"2022-02-20T14:02:45","date_gmt":"2022-02-20T13:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=31860"},"modified":"2022-02-20T14:45:37","modified_gmt":"2022-02-20T13:45:37","slug":"why-does-the-business-community-think-that-kosovo-has-failed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/why-does-the-business-community-think-that-kosovo-has-failed\/","title":{"rendered":"Why does the business community think Kosovo has failed?"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to various high-ranking members of the business community, Kosovo has failed considerably when it comes to its economic diplomacy.<\/p>\n

No economic attach\u00e9 has been appointed in any of the diplomatic representatives, thus exempting Kosovo from any chance of lobbying in terms of attracting foreign investments or establishing economic relations with more developed nations. The ministry of foreign affairs in Kosovo has decided to remain silent and not react to these recent remarks.<\/p>\n

In addition, the executive director of Kosovo\u2019s<\/a><\/strong> American Chamber of Commerce<\/a><\/strong>, Arian Zeka, said that he believes that economic diplomacy should be a top priority for the Kosovo government because it would help local investors meet new associates.<\/p>\n

According to Zeka, now is the very last chance for the government to actually do something.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis shouldn\u2019t only remain on the declarative level. I believe that we have all the human capacities and financial ones in order to enable or grow the activation of Kosovo in the field of economic diplomacy. We need to appoint economic attaches in the cities and countries that have the greatest presence or which generate the greatest economic activities at a global scale. Time is running out and this is our last chance to actually do something in this aspect,\u201d \u2013 he said.<\/p>\n

Head of the board of Kosovo\u2019s Chamber of Doing Business (OAK), Skender Krasniqi, criticized the fact that Kosovo is the only country without economic attaches.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to have economic attaches in all of our embassies and our business offers should be presented by these economic attaches. We are the only country that doesn\u2019t have a single economic attach\u00e9 in a single country around the world,\u201d \u2013 said Krasniqi.<\/p>\n

Head of Kosovo\u2019s Economic Chamber<\/a><\/strong> Berat Rukiqi told KosovaPress<\/a><\/strong> that thorough economic diplomacy would greatly alleviate all other processes for the country\u2019s development like our political relations, visa liberalization, and even Kosovo\u2019s recognition as an independent state.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis would have a great impact on many other countries which are still skeptical about the different processes in Kosovo like visa liberalization. In addition, if we were to have better economic communication, more trade deals, more foreign investments then they would surely look at Kosovo differently. The same thing goes for those countries which have yet to recognize us,\u201d \u2013 said Rukiqi.<\/p>\n

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