Legal Framework For The Recruitment Of Civil Servants In The Context Of Kosovo

Public administration is the basic mechanism that ensures the good functioning of the state by providing services to citizens and exercising state power as well. Moreover, the administrative apparatus, according to the standards of the European Administrative Space, should be granted a certain level of independence from political institutions while conducting its administrative activity. For this reason, public administration reforms have always started with the professionalization of the civil service as the main pillar of the administrative apparatus. Initial measures to ensure the professionalism of the administration have been always undertaken in the field of meritocratic recruitment of civil servants as well as increase of their skills. States in transition and those emerging from the conflict continue to face the challenge of professionalizing the civil service as a consequence of the legacy of past systems. This paper explains the efforts undertaken in Kosovo for the professionalization of the civil service using: normative legal method, comparative and qualitative method, by focusing on the specific analysis of the legal framework for the recruitment of civil servants in Kosovo by comparing it with established practices which are often in conflict with the legal basis as a result of interference by political institutions.