Der EU-„Stabilisation and Association Tracking Mechanism“
The EU “-„Stabilisation and Association Tracking Mechanism“

Summary/Abstract: STM started in March 2004, as the author, senior adviser of the Friedrich-Ebert Foundation on the Stabilisation and Association Process, explains. It aims at bringing Kosovo closer to the criteria of a Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA), including the approximation of the Acquis Communitaire. In view of the not yet defined final status of Kosovo, it is, however, not directed towards the conclusion of a SAA. The STM process may loose momentum if it takes too long. It is therefore necessary, also in enhancing its credibility, to be accompanied by concrete and visible measures of the EU to strengthen the economy and infrastructure of Kosovo. The European Partnerships, introduced at the EU-Thessaloniki Summit in June 2003, created a valuable basis for setting firm policy targets with deadlines attached, laid down in an Action Plan, to be monitored annually by the European Union. The monitoring of the implementation of these policy targets by the Provisional Institutions of Self Government (PISG) needs further strengthening of the respective institutional capacities in all Ministries concerned. At the same time, it is a valuable management tool for the Head of government in following up the implementation of political decisions. In order to have the necessary political support, the coordination of the STM process should remain within the Prime Minister’s Office. Also the coordination within the different EU offices in Kosovo requires careful attention.

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