The chairman of the Kosovo Economic Ode, Lulzim Rafuna, has said that increasing inflation in Kosovo is directly affecting lowering the citizens’ standard of living, asking the Government to take concrete measures to curb it.
On show F. IVE, after inflation in Kosovo reached 7.1 percent in October 2026, according to data from the Kosovo Statistics Agency ( ASC), Rafuna said Kosovo has the highest inflation in the region and that urgent action is needed to ease its influence on citizens.
He stressed that Oda Economics has repeatedly demanded that Government prepare a package of measures so that price hikes do not burden the family budget.
Rafuna said the biggest price hikes are recorded in basic products and services, including electricity, gas, drinks and food.
It is a message that should take action, concrete steps to tame inflation as far as possible. Kosovo has the highest inflation in the region, and for this we need urgent steps, even through your media and in our presentations we’ve had, we’ve asked the Government to undertake, to prepare a package, so that it will affect as little inflation as possible, and the citizens of the Republic of Kosovo don’t notice so much the cost of daily products or baskets, that we’re not talking about products or luxury products, we’re talking about the daily basket that we use, he has declared.
It also singled out 21 percent of prices in the transport sector, according to AKS data, linking this to the expensive oil derivatives.
According to him, the rising price of oil affects not only transport but also prices of other products because of the higher cost of transporting goods. This, according to Rafuna, is especially sensitive to Kosovo, which is highly dependent on import.
Source Layer: Dukeagini