In his regular column, Lumir Abdixhiku writes for Koha Ditore that the entry into force of the Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA) represents a new economic momentum for Kosovo, despite the views from few skeptics. The reforms set out in the agreement, not only regulate a new economic and trade relation between Kosovo and the EU, but they are also supposed to transform the structure of the Kosovo’s economic model.
Lumir Abdixhiku considers that Hashim Thaci’s election for president, comforted one individual while holding the fate of an entire country hostage. He says that political clashes in Kosovo have become so deep, that giving up would be perceived as a political weakness, mistake or defeat. On the other hand, he notes, international voices have started to show the first signs of some kind of mediation, “Public proposal of the German Ambassador for creation of a mediating commission, makes a good start,” writes Abdixhiku.
Lumir Abdixhiku, executive director of the Pristina-based research institute RIINVEST, writes in an opinion piece that dialogue between Pristina and Belgrade must happen but that "the process should respect some general principles that Kosovars need to lay out”. The first and most important principle, according to Abdixhiku, should be national unity. “National unity is important especially if we are obliged to address Kosovo’s internal arrangements – always in compliance with the Constitution.
The paper’s columnist Lumir Abdixhiku writes today that visa liberalization wouldn't solve the problems of Kosovo citizens. Also, according to Abdixhiku, the right of free movement - taken as the last in the region - does not make any achievement. “Visa liberalization, however, would bring a glimmer of hope for Kosovars. It would bring a dignified treatment that Europe gives to young Europeans. But it did not happen.
Lumir Abdixhiku, executive director of the Pristina-based Riinvest Institute, argues that the formation of the special court was the best among the available solutions. “Kosovo had a moral, legal and international obligation to address allegations of crimes. Kosovo had no longer the right to do so itself. Nationalistic, euphoric and pathetic discussions would only send the country toward isolation … Beyond the special court, Kosovars should be more concerned with the political level in the country.
Lumir Abdixhiku, the Executive Director of Pristina-based research institute RIINVEST, comments on recent statements by Kosovo’s Minister for Communities and Returns Aleksandar Jablanovic. “A minister of my Republic – Jablanovic – ignores all killings [during the Kosovo conflict] as if he had lived far away from here, but that isn’t so … How is it possible that the whole world knows about the massacres committed in Kosovo, but a minister of the Republic, who has spent his life surrounded by massacres, doesn’t? What makes a Serb minister of the Republic to deny human fatalities?
Lumir Abdixhiku, the Executive Director of Pristina-based RIINVEST research institute, notes that the Transparency International’s Corruption Index has ranked Kosovo as 110th out of 175 countries and territories. “Kosovo is ranked in the same position as four years ago and this explains our stalemate.
Lumir Abdixhiku, Executive Director of the Pristina-based research institute Riinvest, argues in an opinion piece that members of the Kosovo Assembly have a little more than 100 days to come up with an institutional solution and form the Assembly. “Otherwise, our country will enter the state of shutdown for the first time. The state shutdown happens when the assembly fails to adopt the funding of the government, public agencies and practically all public services that are related to the budget.