IKL: Kosovo without an Assembly and without a legitimate government is risking billions in international aid
Express newspaper
26/07/2025 10:03
The Kosovo Law Institute (KLI) assessed that the situation in the country has surpassed the political crisis and has turned into institutional chaos, due to the lack of a constituted Assembly and the inability to have a government with full powers.
The Director of IKL, Ehat Miftaraj, points out that the consequences of this blockade are already seriously affecting Kosovo’s strategic interests.
“We can say that Kosovo is no longer just in a political crisis, but Kosovo is going through a chaos, which has been unprecedented so far. We do not have a constituted Assembly, we do not have an Assembly that can exercise the powers and responsibilities that the Constitution and the law provide. Also, the consequences are that this Assembly is not able to exercise parliamentary control over the government in office,” said Miftaraj.
He said that the current composition of the government is also contrary to the Supreme Court’s decision, as some of the ministers are also MPs, which contradicts the Constitution.
“Let’s not forget that we have a decision of the Supreme Court, which has determined that any minister who is also an MP cannot simultaneously exercise these two functions, because it is incompatible with the Constitution and the law. Today, the Kosovo government, although in office, does not even have a quorum to meet and make decisions. Eight ministers, who are also MPs, or the same ones, make new decisions in the criminal sphere and in a way violate not only the law, but also the country’s Constitution itself,” he said.
According to Miftaraj, the lack of functioning of the Parliament is also directly affecting the work of independent institutions and public boards.
“IKD has published a report through which it confirmed that we have a large number of independent institutions that now no longer have a quorum and cannot exercise their function and responsibilities, and we are waiting for a large number of other independent institutions, whose company boards’ mandates will expire and they will not be able to exercise their responsibilities,” he said.
Miftaraj also mentioned the concrete financial damages being caused to the country due to the inability to ratify important international agreements.
“The president’s request has clarified this extremely well. The president’s request has also clarified the consequences that will occur if we do not have a constituted Assembly soon, without forgetting the fact that Kosovo is losing hundreds of millions of euros or even billions of euros, because we cannot ratify the agreement related to the Growth Plan, where there are 886 million euros, but there are also a large number of bilateral agreements pending with France, Germany, and other countries, which have offered assistance and financial aid to Kosovo in various fields. We can say that we have reached a situation where every day of the failure to constitute the Assembly now not only affects the interest, affects the well-being of the citizens of Kosovo, but also violates the strategic interests of Kosovo itself,” Miftaraj told EO.