KOSOVO REPORT CARD (ICG Balkans Report N° 100)
KOSOVO REPORT CARD (ICG Balkans Report N° 100)

Author(s): Author Not Specified
Subject(s): Government/Political systems, Inter-Ethnic Relations, Peace and Conflict Studies, Asylum, Refugees, Migration as Policy-fields
Published by: ICG International Crisis Group
Summary/Abstract: Impatience among Kosovo's majority Albanian population is growing with the international mission's slowness in putting in place some of the basic structures of normal life - 15 months after the end of the war the judicial system is still getting started and Pristina suffers prolonged daily power outages. The UN police, although nearing its level of authorised deployments, has yet to deal effectively with the climate of lawlessness and disrespect for public authority. Albanians have seized with both hands the opportunities for creating a flourishing small business economy - thanks in part to the UN Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) chief Bernard Kouchner's decision to introduce the DM as the Kosovo's currency - but the international community has yet to begin the process of privatisation and market reform that is critically necessary to restart the Kosovo economy and to channel investment into legitimate economic activity and away from the quasi-legal grey economy.

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