Imer Mushkolaj, is one of the many editorial writers that drew a parallel these days between the crisis in Greece and the situation in Kosovo. He is also not the only one to reflect today on the book of the Wall Street Journal journalist, James Angelos, “The Full Catastrophe: Travels among the New Greek Ruins.” After bringing many examples of fraud, corruption and criminality from this book, Mushkolaj asks: “Do these Greek frauds sound familiar to you? Do Kosovars commit such deeds? Yes, and a lot.”
According to Mushkolaj, there are many frauds on the social assistance, with many people who work illegally and benefit from the assistance at the same time. He also considers that many people are enlisted as war veterans without any merit. “They will profit from our money. Many businesses pay as much taxes as they wish, they do not offer fiscal coupons and erase their accumulated debts through bribes.”
He also writes about the employees who consider their working places only as a privilege and who only worry how to profit without any merit, about irresponsible doctors who take bribe for their services and recruit patients for their private clinics, students who bribe professors, academics who advance in their positions through fraud, about nepotism, theft and corruption in institutions.
“All these are happening in a new state, exhausted from poverty in a fragile democracy. A country that cannot be harmed by crises because it functions in crisis. In the meantime, we deceive ourselves, and we deceive the state every day. And, we speak about law, and we speak about state,” concludes Mushkolaj.
