{"id":37774,"date":"2026-05-21T12:05:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T10:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/kosovo-risks-losing-funds-from-the-growth-plan\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T12:05:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T10:05:13","slug":"kosovo-risks-losing-funds-from-the-growth-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/kosovo-risks-losing-funds-from-the-growth-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Kosovo risks losing funds from the Growth Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Bashkimi-Evropian-BE-be.jpg\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;margin-bottom:20px\"><\/p>\n<p>The European Commission has confirmed that it has not yet received the request from Kosovo for the next payment from the Growth Plan funds.<\/p>\n<p>The deadline for submitting the request is July 15, while the last day of June represents the final deadline for the implementation of the reforms foreseen for this period.<\/p>\n<p>The submission of the request by the local authorities is a procedure foreseen by the rules of the Growth Plan, while the approval of the payment of installments is done after the European Commission positively evaluates the implementation of the reforms.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The next reporting deadline for Kosovo will be on June 30. The distribution of funds from the EU is subject to the assessment of the fulfillment of the steps of the Reform Agenda, as well as compliance with the general conditions and preconditions. With the expiration of the deadline for 13 reforms on June 30 of this year, Kosovo risks losing funds if it does not progress in of the Reform Agenda&#8221;, stated a spokesperson of the European Commission.<\/p>\n<p>The value of the reforms that Kosovo must implement until June 30 reaches over 90 million euros.<\/p>\n<p>As European Commission officials have explained, the end of this year marks the deadline for another 27 steps of reforms, worth approximately 166 million euros.<\/p>\n<p>The European Commission has ordered that Kosovo must implement accelerate the implementation of the Reform Agenda to avoid the loss of these funds.<\/p>\n<p>Funds from the Growth Plan, if lost, are irreversible and this applies to every country in the Western Balkans.\/RTK<\/p>\n<hr style=\"margin:30px 0\">\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#666\">Source: <strong>prizrenpost<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Commission has confirmed that it has not yet received the request from Kosovo for the next payment from the Growth Plan funds. The deadline for submitting the request is July 15, while the last day of June represents the final deadline for the implementation of the reforms foreseen for this period. The submission [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[666],"class_list":["post-37774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","tag-brief"],"views":9,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37776,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37774\/revisions\/37776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}