"EULEX: Shining symbol of incompetence"

EULEX should be audited and reformed because it is expensive and incompetent, The Guardian writes.

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Sunday, 10.04.2011.

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EULEX should be audited and reformed because it is expensive and incompetent, The Guardian writes. The EU's largest civilian mission, EULEX, was meant to prove the possibility of an effective common foreign policy, The Guardian has reported. "EULEX: Shining symbol of incompetence" An excessive expectation, perhaps, because the EU has always been divided on Kosovo – five member states did not recognize its controversial independence, declared in 2008, and this mission became the substitute for a common policy. EULEX costs about EUR100mn a year and fields almost one policeman, judge or prosecutor for every 1,000 residents of this small territory, the British daily pointed out. “In three years it has achieved little. Few prominent investigations have been opened, and the local judiciary has not improved appreciably. The difficult context partly explains this failure, but the main causes are internal – incompetence, weak management and possibly even disloyalty to the mission's mandate,” The Guardian wrote. The political elite has become adept at using the absence of EULEX investigations as a certificate of its "cleanliness", as a recent episode demonstrates well. According to a report on organ-trafficking in Kosovo – written by Swiss MP Dick Marty for the Council of Europe – a group of ethnic Albanian fighters, led by the current Prime Minister Hashim Thaci, committed unspeakable crimes during the 1999 conflict, later acquired political and economic power, and still exercises "violent control" over the drugs trade. EULEX seized by panic over its obligation to act on these allegations, at first said that it knew nothing of them, and challenged Marty to show his evidence. Only when pressed hard by Marty, Brussels and the foreign media did EULEX announce an investigation into the matter, the British daily concluded.

"EULEX: Shining symbol of incompetence"

An excessive expectation, perhaps, because the EU has always been divided on Kosovo – five member states did not recognize its controversial independence, declared in 2008, and this mission became the substitute for a common policy.

EULEX costs about EUR100mn a year and fields almost one policeman, judge or prosecutor for every 1,000 residents of this small territory, the British daily pointed out.

“In three years it has achieved little. Few prominent investigations have been opened, and the local judiciary has not improved appreciably. The difficult context partly explains this failure, but the main causes are internal – incompetence, weak management and possibly even disloyalty to the mission's mandate,” The Guardian wrote.

The political elite has become adept at using the absence of EULEX investigations as a certificate of its "cleanliness", as a recent episode demonstrates well. According to a report on organ-trafficking in Kosovo – written by Swiss MP Dick Marty for the Council of Europe – a group of ethnic Albanian fighters, led by the current Prime Minister Hashim Thaci, committed unspeakable crimes during the 1999 conflict, later acquired political and economic power, and still exercises "violent control" over the drugs trade.

EULEX seized by panic over its obligation to act on these allegations, at first said that it knew nothing of them, and challenged Marty to show his evidence. Only when pressed hard by Marty, Brussels and the foreign media did EULEX announce an investigation into the matter, the British daily concluded.

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