New EP rapporteur on Kosovo promises to lobby for more recognitions
The new European Parliament rapporteur for Kosovo, Austrian Ulrike Lunacek, has promised to lobby the five EU member states that have not recognized Kosovo's secession, Pristina media reported.
(KosovoCompromise Staff) Monday, September 28, 2009
Lunacek, who is supposed to be an impartial rapporteur and not a lobbyist, pledged to Kosovo Albanian parliament speaker Jakup Krasniqi, a former warlord turned politician, that her delegations' members will contact lawmakers from five EU countries rejecting Kosovo's unilateral secession: Spain, Slovakia, Romania, Greece and Cyprus.
Lunacek's predecessor as rapporteur Joost Lagendijk was the most arduous lobbyist for Kosovo's secession in the European Parliament.
