Kosovo Albanians Massively Buy Properties In Macedonia

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  • VMRO
    Senior Member
    • Sep 2008
    • 1464

    Kosovo Albanians Massively Buy Properties In Macedonia

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    SKOPJE – In recent months Albanians from Kosovo and Metohija have massively been buying properties in Macedonia, and those with “deep pockets” do not ask for price of the properties in the most attractive locations, claim real estate agencies, as reported by Macedonian media. Properties are bought mostly in Tetovo, Gostivar and Skopje.

    Skopje

    Almost 80 percent of newly built apartments in Tetovo and Gostivar were bought by citizens from Kosovo. They pay as much as 700 euros per meter square. Houses are also bought, but their price is high, media learned at one construction company in Gostivar.

    Except in Tetovo and Gostivar, Kosovo Albanians also buy apartments in Ohrid, but they do not do it directly but through an intermediary, in fear that the purchase of apartments might cause negative reactions with local population, the contracts are made to third parties.

    Agency “Elinor” from Tetovo said that Albanians seek apartments from them, but that they do not want to sell them to Albanians, instead referring them to Skopje.

    “Apart from Albanians, Macedonians from Albania also seek apartments in Tetovo and Gostivar,” said the agency.

    Media reports that the problem got into spotlight since a few days ago an information appeared that thousands of citizens are leaving Kosovo because they are disappointed with the situation in the province.

    It is also said that an additional problem for Kosovo citizens is a strict visa regime the European Union has introduced for Kosovo citizens.

    Although official Pristina has began negotiations for the abolition of the visa regime, it seems that the deal is still far, say the media, and the reason is the increased number of asylum requests in the Western Europe and instable political situation in Kosovo and Metohija.

    This is why a large number of citizens sees the salvation in getting Serbian passports with which they can freely enter the European Union.

    Belim Becaj, political analyst from Pristina, says that there is no other reason except the financial one to make the citizens leave Kosovo, and that the authorities should prevent it.

    “Citizens are disappointed and therefore they flee. When a man has financial problems he does not pay attention to whether he needs Serbian, Russian or Macedonian passport to leave. Living conditions in Kosovo are difficult and that is why there are mass departures,” said Becaj.

    The EU has already announced the “red alert” because of the wave of asylum seekers from Kosovo and demands that authorities in Pristina explain to their citizens that it is impossible to get asylum in any country of the European Union.

    The main source of income of Kosovo citizens is receiving aid from diaspora, and every third family has someone working in Germany or Switzerland.
    Verata vo Mislite, VMRO vo dushata, Makedonia vo Srceto.

    Vnatreshna Makedonska Revolucionerna Organizacija.
  • Volokin
    Member
    • Apr 2014
    • 278

    #2
    So whilst Albanians are emigrating to Macedonia, the Macedonians are immigrating from Macedonia.

    I really, really want to see what the demographics will look like at the next census.

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    • Volokin
      Member
      • Apr 2014
      • 278

      #3

      GERMERING, Germany— Valmir Sahiti, 25 years old, has spent the last two weeks living in a nursing home in the long-shot hope of a new life.

      Mr. Sahiti, an asylum-seeker from Kosovo, is staying with five relatives in a makeshift refugee center set up on several turquoise-carpeted empty floors of the home. He says he is aware the German authorities may soon send him back, but he insists the chance to live in Germany is worth the attempt.

      “We love Germany,” Mr. Sahiti, a Kosovar Albanian, says. “Albanians have a saying: If God wants it, he will do it.”

      A sudden crush of migrants from Kosovo is straining Germany’s capacity, forcing officials in especially hard-hit Bavaria to house people such as Mr. Sahiti in emergency shelters, from the Germering nursing home to public gyms to the VIP spectator area of Munich’s Olympic Stadium. The influx is feeding divisive national debates over immigration, asylum policy and European integration.

      Officials say Kosovars have virtually no chance of being granted asylum because they aren’t fleeing war or persecution. Nevertheless, a surge of close to 20,000 people has arrived from the poor Balkan country by bus, rail, and taxi since around the start of the year, overwhelming government officials already trying to house rising numbers of refugees from the Middle East and Africa.

      Officials struggle to explain the sudden increase, but point to a combination of factors: The draw of Germany’s relatively strong economy and generous welfare benefits, economic desperation in Kosovo, an easing of border crossing rules between Kosovo and longtime foe Serbia, and rumors on social media that it has gotten easier to get asylum.

      Kosovo, which was part of Yugoslavia during the communist era and later fought for independence from Serbia, was recognized as an independent nation by the U.S. and most of the EU in 2008. But it suffers from one of the weakest economies in Europe and an unemployment rate of 35%.

      Officials are working to dispel the notion that Germany is a place where Kosovars can walk into plum jobs and government benefits. They have pledged to accelerate asylum review for Kosovars with the goal of finishing the process within weeks rather than months. And, showing they are taking action, officials announced Tuesday they had deported 30 Kosovars via charter flight.

      Last week, a cabinet minister in Bavaria’s state government flew to Pristina, the capital of Kosovo, and went on national television to tell viewers they should stay home.

      “Everyone in Kosovo must know,” the minister, Beate Merk, said, “asylum law provides no way into Germany.”

      The government’s efforts point to the political sensitivities involved. Even before the recent surge, politicians on the right said the government wasn’t doing enough to prevent abuses of the asylum system, which provides some welfare benefits to applicants.

      More broadly, the rise in migrants highlights worries in the German public about the costs of European integration, from eurozone bailouts to refugees coming in via other EU countries.

      “We cannot let ourselves be exploited,” says Christian Bernreiter, head of the district government of Deggendorf in rural Bavaria. “A lot is coming together right now—the issue of Greece is worrying people, and the issue of refugees is worrying people.”

      Mr. Bernreiter’s district hosts a 501-person home for asylum seekers that filled up quickly after it opened in early January. In a single 36-hour period Feb. 4 to 6, 300 asylum seekers from Kosovo arrived in Deggendorf, he said, forcing two emergency shelters to be set up in nearby districts.

      Germany reported 202,834 people applying for asylum last year, a 60% increase from 2013 and the highest number in Europe. While Germany had been gearing up for more refugees from war-torn regions, the sudden jump in Kosovars caught officials by surprise.

      Last year’s asylum seekers came mainly from Syria, Serbia, Eritrea, Afghanistan and Iran. This year, the German government says around 18,000 Kosovars began the asylum-seeking process between Jan. 1 and Feb. 12, more than double the number of their countrymen who applied for asylum all of last year. For the Kosovars whose asylum applications were resolved in January, only 0.3% got a favorable decision.

      Frontex, the European Union’s border policing agency, says it detected almost 12,000 migrants, predominantly Kosovars, crossing the border from Serbia to EU member Hungary in January and roughly another 11,000 in the first half of February. The EU’s European Asylum Support Office says just about all Kosovar applicants have been seeking asylum in Hungary, Austria or Germany.

      Mr. Sahiti, who accompanied his uncle, 40-year-old Jetuliah Sahiti, and the uncle’s wife and three children, said he made no more than $230 a month on odd jobs such as installing windows and had to provide for his pregnant wife, daughter and parents. Both men had lived in Germany as refugees during the war and still speak broken German.

      The younger Mr. Sahiti said he and his uncle had recently heard that the way to Germany from Kosovo had become easier and less expensive and pooled their savings to pay some $2,800 for the trip. He left his own family behind—he hopes to bring them to Germany later or work for a few years and return—and joined his uncle’s family on the trip.

      The six took a bus from Pristina to the Serbian capital of Belgrade, then another to a town near the border with Hungary. They walked for four hours, at times through forest, to a Hungarian village and took a taxi on a 10-hour drive to Munich, where the group turned themselves in to the police and asked for asylum.

      The Sahitis received clothes at the asylum center they were first sent to in Munich and will be fed and sheltered by the state until the final decision is made. Gazi Durak, a supervisor of their shelter, said the cases of newly arrived Kosovar refugees likely wouldn’t be considered until April.

      “We just wanted to come to Germany,” Mr. Sahiti said. “If we get asylum, good. If we get sent home, there’s nothing we can do.”



      Kosovo emptying out, hopes for independent future exhausted
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      Migrants from Kosovo walk into the dawn. Hungary has intercepted more than 10,000 of them since the beginning of this year, according to data given to our Budapest bureau. The count changes depending on the source. Many have their hearts set on Germany.

      Kosovo declared itself independent from Serbia in 2008, and although the migrants can pass through Serbia easily now, life in Kosovo has not developed enough for these young people.

      Asked why they are leaving, one said: “It’s because we are disappointed, because we are fighting years since ago… and Kosovo doesn’t change anything. “

      The Kosovans take a bus, legally, through Serbia for ten hours to get to the Hungarian border, which is richly garnished by forest, where they attempt to cross on foot, which is not legal.

      If they are stopped by police, they apply for asylum. As they are not detained, they can press ahead to countries in the EU Shengen Zone.

      But asylum is refused because they are not fleeing a war or persecution, such as at the end of the 1990s. At least it prevents them from being sent straight back.

      What has made so many leave their country?

      One migrant we spoke to said: “No job, no work and no schooling. We all have to flee Kosovo because we don’t have a future there.”

      According to Lieutenant Colonel Gábor Eberhardt, the chief of police in this border area of Hungary, there were more than 1,000 illegal crossings per day in December and January.

      Eberhardt said: “These has been a drop-off in numbers over the past [short while], taking action against 300-700 illegals per day.”

      Serbia’s police have been stopping people more at their border as well, so both sides are reinforcing efforts. They both receive technical help from the European Union border monitoring agency FRONTEX, such as thermal imaging cameras,vehicles and support personnel.

      Migrants from Kosovo, young people and families with children also come to the border by taxi, then pay a trafficker guide 980€ per person to make the crossing possible.
      Migrants from Kosovo walk into the dawn. Hungary has intercepted more than 10,000 of them since the beginning of this year, according to data given


      The thing is, if Germany really makes it clear that it will not accept people seeking asylum from Kosovo, and Serbia, Hungary etc tighten border control, these people will look towards Macedonia.

      Comparatively, Macedonia is doing a lot better economically than both Kosovo and Albania, and the people know it. I'm not sure how the process of emigrating to Macedonia works, but I'm sure it wouldn't be hard to get in. This could lead to a really big problem for Macedonia exacerbated by the Albanian realization that Germany will no longer accept them as genuine asylum seekers.
      Last edited by Volokin; 02-20-2015, 04:26 AM.

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      • DedoAleko
        Member
        • Jun 2009
        • 969

        #4
        Originally posted by VMRO View Post
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        That news was denied and refuted the following days in mostly all of the daily papers such as Dnevnik and Nova Makedonija.

        google translation:

        - There is no increased demand for apartments and houses for purchase. So far we have sold only two camps of people from Tetovo. Most, but not dramatically, interest rental apartments - from the Agency for Real Estate "Fikom".

        The whole text: http://star.dnevnik.com.mk/default.a...1620&stID=2800


        google translation:
        After some days the internet portals reported that residents of Kosovo massively bought apartments in Tetovo, chatting with the owners of the real estate and notary offices to find out that no such cases

        The whole text: http://http://www.novamakedonija.com...tIzdanie=23395
        Last edited by DedoAleko; 02-20-2015, 09:12 AM.

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        • DedoAleko
          Member
          • Jun 2009
          • 969

          #5
          Forgot to mention that I was reading the other day in one of the texts for the strict set of rules and conditions for foreigners that need to fulfill, so that they can buy property in the first place.

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