Brussels-based correspondent Augustin Palokaj argues in an opinion piece that “with their reactions toward the actions of the opposition, with their insulting and paranoid speech against the critical media, with the chronic lack of assuming any responsibility for the problems of society and with tendencies to use the state and public apparatus for their own personal and political gains, from the police to the media, Kosovo’s present leaders are more like leaders that have totalitarian tendencies rather than leaders who prove ‘European values’ which they claim to embrace”. Palokaj also writes: “Kosovo is without a doubt entering a conflicting political culture that we have seen for many years in Albania. One thing should be clear to everyone, the opposition has its share of responsibility, but it can never amount to the responsibility of the government. The feeling of responsibility and accountability is a unit of measurement in democracy. And in Kosovo, there is no doubt that there is a deficit of democracy among its leaders. To recall an ironic statement of ‘our international friends’: ‘every people have the leadership they want and deserve’. In responsibility lies the very reason why Minister Jablanovic is not being dismissed. Because they [the leaders] do not want to set a ‘dangerous’ precedent for ministers to be held accountable for their statements. This kind of responsibility exists in developed democratic countries, and Kosovo is not such a country”.