The challenges that await the European Union in 2019 will likely again delay Kosovo’s hopes of obtaining a visa-free regime, and keep its citizens waiting in long lines at embassies’ doors, experts warn.
They add that yet another delay in getting visa liberalisation will further damage the EU’s battered reputation in Kosovo – once the biggest supporter of the EU in the Balkans – and across the region.
“I doubt that visa liberalisation with Kosovo will progress any further in 2019,” Tena Prelec, a researcher at the University of Sussex and at the London School of Economics and Political Science, told BIRN.
Jehona Lushaku, a lecturer in Political Sciences at the University of Pristina and an analyst on European Integration, also believes Kosovo’s chances for visa-free regime with the EU are dwindling.
