On Tuesday, June 15, the Tuesday Salon on the topic: “Barriers to foreign investors in Kosovo: Necessary economic policies to be undertaken to overcome them,” was held.
Kosovo is lagging behind in attracting foreign investment despite the fact that some reforms have been made such as tax policies, macroeconomic policies, investments in road infrastructure, ensuring stability for the banking economic system and others.
During the discussion at Tuesday’s Salon, it was emphasized that we need to work harder to improve the image of Kosovo, in addition to the reforms we need to do here, to make it easier for companies that want to do business. Foreign investors in addition to the general economic, political and legal conditions also require a private sector ecosystem and the level of development and interconnection of that ecosystem is very important.
Among other things, during the salon it was emphasized that political barriers include the lack of investment security which has been and continues to be a problem in Kosovo. Meanwhile, economic barriers in Kosovo include the lack of stability for electricity supply, lack of adequate training of the workforce and others.
Part of the panel in this panel were: Edison Jakurti, Doctor of Economic Sciences and former Deputy Minister of Economy; Nora Hasani, Executive Director, German-Kosovo Chamber of Commerce and Besian Mustafa, Member of the Assembly of the Republic of Kosovo.
The salon was moderated by Diellza Gashi, Program Director, Riinvest Institute, who will also write the OP-ED.
