Dasic: Kurti is also aware that there is no progress in Kosovo's EU integration

Kosovo's Prime Minister Albin Kurti has repeatedly stated in recent weeks that it is time for Kosovo to receive its "deserved candidate status" for European Union membership, and Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Political Sciences in Belgrade, Marko Dasic, says that such statements are symbolic and that Kurti himself is aware that it is impossible to expect any progress in this area.

"With these statements, Kurti is trying to bring the issue of Kosovo's EU integration to the agenda of the newly formed European Parliament and the new European Commission. I think he himself is aware, as is the rest of the political establishment in Pristina, that no constructive steps can be expected here, given that there are numerous prerequisites for Euro-Atlantic and other international system institution integrations. We all know what happened with the Council of Europe, and we all know what is happening with certain, mostly economic, regional multilateral organizations," Dasic told Kosovo Online.

As he added, such statements by Kurti serve to calm the domestic public and signal that Kosovo is oriented toward European integration in its foreign policy.

"Everything that has been happening at the level of practical policies recently, and now we're talking about a period that exceeds a year, not just a few months, does not support the symbolic statement made by Albin Kurti," Dasic said.