The Government of Kosovo held its seventh meeting today, where it approved the Draft Law for Amendment and Change of the Law on Reorganization and Change of Certain Enterprises and Their Property.

The purpose of this bill is to improve the timeliness for the reorganization of certain enterprises under the administration of the Privatization Agency of Kosovo, for the purpose of rehabilitation of these enterprises and the return of their sustainability as profitable and beneficial businesses to the economy of Kosovo.

Samuel Zbogar, head of the European Union Office in Kosovo, stated that no EU state would grant asylum for Kosovars.  Zbogar made this statement during the meeting of the Council for European Integration which is being held in Pristina, presided by Kosovo President, Atifete Jahjaga.

“The requests for asylum will not be accepted by any of the EU states. Majority will be refused and repatriated to Kosovo, and when they return, they will become even poorer, because they will be fined,” said Zbogar.

Augustin Palokaj, Koha Ditore’s Brussels based correspondent, considers that despite the fact that the European Union is not currently willing to remove visas for Kosovo and it even considers returning of visas for some countries, emigration of many Kosovars towards the EU should not be used as a reason not to liberalize visas. It is obvious that visa regime has not prevented emigration and the vast number of these emigrations is from Kosovo. Lack of visa liberalization has only created business for multiethnic criminals.

Brussels-based correspondent Augustin Palokaj writes that since the Kosovo institutions are created as a result of personal bargaining, behind closed doors, and knowing the low level of trust that has remained in political parties, would be good that at least the Kosovo President is chosen by citizens directly. Only in that way, although with limited powers, the President would be able to play the role of a unifier.

Adritaik Kelmendi writes today that creation of big governing coalitions in Kosovo and Serbia, have created the most suitable conditions for the international community to remove the burden of Kosovo-Serbian problem once and for all.  He stresses that the international community has already used once the PDK-LDK coalition to make major compromises. Kelmendi also stresses that the coalition in Serbia, led by Aleksandar Vucic, for the first time does not have any party at the Assembly that objects EU membership.

In his weekly column, Lumir Abdixhiku writes that there is no doubt that any government is better than no government but the current one is the worst possible solution. Therefore, the new government that is supposed to begin its mandate with enthusiasm and euphoria is instead starting out in a defensive and nervous mode.

Koha Ditore writes that bigger participation of women is asked for the Kosovo institutions. The gender quota set by law enables Kosovo women to be represented by 30% at the parliament and in municipal assemblies. But on the new Government, led by Isa Mustafa, which counts 21 ministries, only two female ministers have been appointed. This is also a very disappointing fact for the European Parliament rapporteur for Kosovo Ulrike Lunacek, the daily writes.

Columnist Enver Robelli writes that yesterday’s Kosovo Assembly session which resulted in election of the government led by Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) leader, Isa Mustafa, was also a funeral ceremony for the party and only two of its MPs, Vjosa Osmani and Doruntine Maloku, tried to save it by voting against the new  government. The rest of LDK MPs voted in favour of a government that unites evil and crime, writes Robelli.

The “Mothers’ cries” association reacted on Sunday, to a statement made by Serbia Prime Minister, Aleksandar Vucic’s at the UN Security Council on 4 December, Koha reports. Koha writes that according to this association, Vucic accused Gjakova/Djakovica’s mayor, Mimoza Kusari-Lila, that she is preventing the return of Serbs in Gjakove/Djakovica. “Vucic at any moment did not mention the residents of Gjakove/Djakovica, that were murdered by Serbian authorities, whose remains are still missing,” stated the reaction.

The paper’s Brussels-based columnist and correspondent, Augustin Palokaj, writes that politicians today, in order to avoid media contact, are increasingly using social networks to communicate with the public. The politicians view the journalists as a category that bores them and find it much easier to sit down and write whatever they want on Facebook or Twitter, adds Palokaj. This phenomenon is also being rigorously applied by Kosovo leaders, in particular. Hashim Thaci and Isa Mustafa.