The paper’s Brussels-based correspondent, Augustin Palokaj, writes in an opinion piece today that Kosovo has no political or moral power to seek favors from the EU. “The political elite in Kosovo doesn’t have the credibility to at least ask from the EU to be fair and correct towards Kosovo. With the high level of corruption and the failure of the justice system, political leaders cannot ask for such things. Therefore the process of visa liberalization is where it is with Kosovo, pending and without any specific dates when it might happen. The EU will remove visas for almost 80 million citizens of Turkey before they will do it for less than two million Kosovars," Palokaj writes. According to him, the main problem in Kosovo is that political leaders are more interested in personal favors. "So in the best case scenario, if the European Commission confirms the fulfillment of the criteria for visa liberalization, then sometime around May it might give recommendation for visa liberalization. And again, in the best case scenario, the process can be completed sometime early next year. But, given that Kosovo was not given any political promise, this prediction may not happen at all,” Palokaj concludes.