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KDI: Citizens want the tax to remain but also want to maintain good relations with the West (Koha)

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Kosovo Democratic Institute (KDI) presented today possible course of events if the import tariff on products from Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina remains in place and those if the measure is suspended. According to KDI, if the tax is not suspended, it could have a positive effect in the sense of Kosovo exercising state sovereignty towards Serbia, return of attention to the implementation of agreements reached so far in the dialogue and Kosovo being in a position to impose relevant issues to the dialogue. The negative aspect of keeping the tax involves Serbia’s conditioning the process of dialogue with the lifting of tax.   “With regards to Kosovo’s relations with international partners, a positive effect was identified in the increase of the U.S. involvement in the process of dialogue while the negative effect was said to be the quivering international partners’ support for Kosovo,” said Eugen Cakolli from KDI. As far as the internal political aspect is concerned, Cakolli said the tax has ignited the debate on the need for general consensus for building Kosovo’s unified position on dialogue while at the same time has polarized the relations between the president of Kosovo, the government, coalition partners and other political parties. In the economic aspect, the main effect of the tax is the increase of local product consumption while the negative side includes the increase of prices of certain items and contraband.  Jeta Krasniqi, also from KDI, said that if the tax was to be suspended, the main positive effect would be resumption of dialogue for normalisation of relations between Belgrade and Pristina but at the same time the dialogue would continue without a unified position of the Kosovo’s political spectrum and would present risks to an agreement involving an unfavourable compromise for Kosovo. Citizens of Kosovo, said KDI officials, would welcome preserving good relations with international partners, the U.S. in particular but at the same time suspension of tax would lead to the decline of citizens’ trust with Kosovo institutions.

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