Der Bestseller Skandal: UNO - EU! - Kosovo braucht keine Wirtschaft!

: A country without an economy?

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Der Kosovo ist ohne jegliche Aussicht auf irgendeine Wirtschafts Kraft, oder einer entsprechenden Möglichkeit der Wirtschafts Entwicklung


IV Online magazine : IV397 - February 2008

Kosovo


A country without an economy?
Adam Novak



Media coverage of Kosovo’s recent Unilateral Declaration of Independence has focused on the risk of conflict with Serbia, and the broader geopolitical risks for unresolved separatist struggles in Bosnia and the former Soviet Union.


Many in the international peace movement blame the western powers for the violent break-up of former Yugoslavia. But Kosovo’s independence reveals another dimension of the west’s criminal responsibility in the destruction and re-colonisation of Eastern Europe since 1989. The newly independent state of Kosovo has no economy to speak of, and its poor and undereducated population are dependent on remittances from family abroad, smuggling, and foreign aid.
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While it did little to help the small farmers and workshops that dominate the Kosovo economy, the UN administration expended considerable effort on the introduction of a textbook-style neoliberal legal system, ensuring that Kosovo’s natural resources (coal, lead, zinc, nickel, farmland) and the handful of remaining industrial and food-processing companies can be easily acquired by western investors, that civil infrastructure can only be built by public-private partnerships, and that private investors will be able to take over the most profitable part of public services like health and education.

The electricity sector illustrates the economic dilemma facing Kosovo. The territory has persistent power cuts and ’brown-outs.’ The electric company produces 800 megawatts of electricity each day, about 80 percent of what is needed.

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