Instituti GAP

GAP Institute: Prishtina based think tank. RTs do not necessarily reflect support.

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📊 Municipal revenues from property tax increased by 19% in 2025 compared to 2024, reaching €39.1 million! 💶

🤝@KCSFoundationprogram ‘EJA Kosovo’, co -financed by SDC &Sweden.

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Kosovo's municipalities paid €126.6M in court & enforcement decisions in 2025 — a 47% jump from 2024! 💸

📈 Biggest increases: 🔴 Pristina: €10.6M → €45.7M (+332%) 🔴 Leposaviq: +319% 🔴 Mamusha: +249%

🤝@KCSFoundationprogram ‘EJA Kosovo’, co -financed by SDC &Sweden.

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Kosovo's municipalities entered 2026 with €45.6 million in unspent funds carried over from previous years, categorized as "carried forward own-source revenues."💶

🤝@KCSFoundationprogram ‘EJA Kosovo’, co-financed by SDC &Sweden.

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How are salaries in municipal assemblies in Kosovo regulated under the Law on Salaries (2023)?

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🤝@KCSFoundationprogram ‘EJA Kosovo’, co-financed by SDC &Sweden.

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📊 Higher salaries ≠ better performance?
Findings show that increased remuneration has not led to sustained improvements in municipal assembly performance.

📖https://t.co/h75qXIrS66
📖https://t.co/U06jYhhWIG

@KCSFoundationprogram ‘EJA Kosovo’, co-financed by SDC &Sweden.

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📊 Kosovo leads the region with 32 points on public participation in the budget process #OBS2025, mainly due to municipal hearings. At central level and in the Assembly, citizen and CSO participation is still lacking.

📌 https://t.co/IPUYh2DxGR

@OpenBudgets
@EU_Commission

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📊 Budget Transparency in Kosovo #OBS2025

Kosovo scored 57/100, above the regional average (52).

Main challenges:
🔸 Delays in publishing the Citizens Budget
🔸 No Mid-Year Budget Review published

📌 Full results: https://t.co/IPUYh2DxGR

@OpenBudgets

🤝@EU_Commission

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Results of the #OBS2025 for the Western Balkans & Türkiye by @OpenBudgets
🔎 Kosovo results (out of 100):
• Transparency: 57
• Public participation: 32
• Oversight: 61

Full results 👉https://t.co/xzF6wuubMr

#OpenBudgets #Transparency #Kosovo
Supported by @EU_Commission

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📊Despite frequent campaign promises by many municipal mayors to increase women’s role in decision-making, data shows that women remain underrepresented in senior municipal leadership.

🤝@KCSFoundationprogram ‘EJA Kosovo’, co-financed by SDC dhe Sweden.

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🚨 NEW REPORT: #OBS2025 results for the Western Balkans & Türkiye are now live. Governments in the region are moving forward on transparency — but accountability has not kept pace.
Read the full findings: https://t.co/BZ4N0N1Ner

This project is supported by the @EU_Commission

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In 2025, foreign direct investment in Kosovo reached over €1 billion, increasing by €238.2 million, or 30%, compared to 2024.

💭Which countries contributed the most to these investments?

🏢Which sector receives the largest share of foreign direct investment?

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📈During 2025, remittances in Kosovo reached 1.4 billion euros, marking an increase of 59 million euros (+4%) compared to 2024.

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📊Kosovo’s overall trade balance in goods and services remains negative at approximately €3.8 billion, marking a deterioration of about 8.6% compared to 2024. 📉

This reflects a faster increase in the value of goods imports relative to the growth in services exports.

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Kosovo’s ICT sector has generated over €1 billion in exports in just the past three years. 💶📈

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In 2025, Kosovo’s service exports were dominated by:

✈️ Travel services - €2.8B (+16%)
💻 ICT services – €398.2M (+14%)
📊 Other business services - €272.5M (+4%)
🚚 Transport services – €191.3M (+30%)

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📊 2025: Kosovo exported €3.9bn in services and imported €1.7bn, resulting in a positive trade balance of €2.2bn.

For every €1 exported, only €0.44 was imported—one of the strongest ratios in the region.

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🔹 Buxheti për vitin 2026 pritet të arrijë rreth 4 miliardë euro, me një rritje prej 10% krahasuar me vitin 2025.

📌 Raporti dhe komunikata e plotë: 👉:https://t.co/5L5rp9jMua

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Strengthening the capacities of municipalities for diaspora engagement in Kosovo ����🇰
Together with GIZ, we organized a discussion and presented the report on enhancing municipal capacities for effective diaspora engagement. 🤝
📖https://t.co/M4MO9wtNQl
📖https://t.co/MXdnPNyFUF

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📊 Revised CBK data show bank overdrafts reached €655M at end-2025 (+11.4% vs. 2024)

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Who is affected by the minimum wage increase in 2026?” 📊💶🇽🇰
🔸Over 130,000 full-time workers will benefit
🔸 More than €85 mill. in additional costs for businesses.
Read👉 https://t.co/BTJTBCASLx
👉https://t.co/4QTRexzrfV