President of Kosovo Atifete Jahjaga said that illegal migration trends are deeply concerning and that this is a result of the lack of economic development. “Whatever the migration causes may be, one thing remains uncontested: This must not be the Kosovo of 2015, because all of us, its citizens, share a different vision for our state, and our place within this state”, said Jahjaga at the meeting of the National Council on European Integration. She added that cases like the death of Ali Fetahu who was found frozen by Hungarian authorities while trying to illegally enter the EU show that a Kosovar citizen, who was found frozen at the Hungarian border, show that everything needs to be done to prevent illegal migration.

“As institutions of Kosovo, it is our obligation to undertake deep and rapid reforms in the field of rule of law, as precondition for the attraction of the foreign capital and general development of free market economy. Despite the potential which we know that Kosovo does possess, there is no investor which will be convinced to come to a Kosovo which is politically tense, ethnically divided and challenged by a lack of efficiency of the judicial system”, said Jahjaga further in her speech. She warned that the increasing number of people from Kosovo seeking asylum in the EU countries is making the visa liberalization process more difficult.