Kosovo

A coop­er­a­tion office was opened in 1999, and was con­vert­ed into an embassy in 2013.

In July 2022, Min­is­ter Franz Fay­ot signed a new coop­er­a­tion agree­ment and a mem­o­ran­dum of under­stand­ing with a bud­get of EUR 35 mil­lion, which sets the frame­work for coop­er­a­tion with Koso­vo for the 2023 – 2025 peri­od. In addi­tion to the tra­di­tion­al sec­tors of health, voca­tion­al train­ing and sup­port for civ­il soci­ety, the MoU also cov­ers more inno­v­a­tive aspects, includ­ing dig­i­tal­i­sa­tion and renew­able ener­gies. This third MoU sees a diver­si­fi­ca­tion of devel­op­ment coop­er­a­tion with Koso­vo, and a link with the pri­vate sec­tor in Koso­vo and Luxembourg.

After the new MoU was signed, tak­ing into account a prospec­tive and strate­gic study of Luxembourg’s devel­op­ment coop­er­a­tion in Koso­vo in 2021, as well as the reclas­si­fi­ca­tion of Koso­vo as a high­er mid­dle-income coun­try, Lux­em­bourg pre­sent­ed its strate­gic vision (2023−2025) at the launch work­shop with its Koso­var coun­ter­part in Octo­ber 2022. The vision seeks to guide future coop­er­a­tion and diver­si­fi­ca­tion of bilat­er­al relations.