The head of the European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (EULEX), Gabriele Meucci, commenting the report prepared by the independent investigator, Jean Paul Jacquet, who investigated allegations of corruption in EULEX, has stated that he agrees that the mission has not yet achieved its objectives in the fight against corruption. Meucci, in a clarification letter send to media wrote that the mission cannot sit blindfolded towards the criticism that Jacquet wrote in his report.

Head of EULEX Gabriel Meucci said that there are no conditions for Ovlier Ivanović to be released pending decision, until all of remaining 38 witnesses are heard.

Publicist Enver Robelli writes in his opinion piece that in an interview for a foreign newspaper, the EULEX chief Gabriele Meucci said that EULEX has no friends in Kosovo and that therefore its job is difficult and close to impossible. Meucci also said in the interview that the Kosovar society is infiltrated by organized crime.

Brussels-based correspondent Augustin Palokaj writes in his opinion piece that the European Union Rule of Law Mission (EULEX) came to Kosovo with the executive mandate to investigate corruption and organized crime at the highest levels of Kosovo institutions. “Now we have a situation where investigations on corruption cases are being conducted within EULEX, and, among others, even Kosovo authorities are conducting investigations against EULEX.

The opinion piece of the editor in chief of this daily, Agron Bajrami, which was initially published in the Montenegrin daily Vjesti, comes as a response to the statement of the World Bank Director, Jan Peter Olters, who criticized publicly Kosovo politicians for not being able to change the difficult socio-economic situation in Kosovo for fifteen years and for leading Kosovo into deeper crisis for their narrow interests.

Koha online has published the press release of the Office of the Chief State Prosecutor which notes that "regarding the recently published report of the independent expert, Jean-Paul Jacqué, the Office of the Chief State Prosecutor would like to thank Mr. Jacqué, for his work and efforts. At the same time there is a need to emphasize that the named report did not take any stance whether there was or was not any corruption inside the EULEX mission.

EP Rapporteur for Kosovo Ulrike Lunacek has said that a report that found no evidence of corruption in EU's mission in Kosovo, EULEX, "is only the first step."

The Austrian MEP called for "a full investigation into the work of the EU rule of law mission."

"The report is an important first step, but some questions remain unanswered," Lunacek said on her website.

The European Union’s law-and-order mission in Kosovo didn’t attempt to cover up allegations of corruption in its own ranks, but its handling of the accusations has damaged the credibility of the bloc’s largest civilian operation outside the EU, according to an expert report.

A French law professor criticized on Tuesday the European Union's handling of corruption allegations involving an EU mission in Kosovo, the bloc's biggest civilian mission abroad.

EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini asked Jean-Paul Jacque to investigate last November after allegations emerged in the media that the EU mission had covered up evidence of bribe-taking by senior staff in cases of murder and corruption.

Association of families of kidnapped and missing persons in Kosovo and Metohija in 1998-2000 has forwarded to EULEX head Gabriele Meucci a list with names of 318 kidnapped civilians and names of Albanian perpetrators. The list was compiled by associations of families of kidnapped and missing persons based on testimonies following the end of conflict in Kosovo.