Kosovo attracts foreign investors with its safe banking system and natural resources. CVMR (Chemical Vapour Metal Refining) is working on opening a bank and refining nickel metal, with which Kosovo is one of the richest in the world.

The Republic of Kosovo will become a member of World Bank and International Monetary Fund at the latest by the first half of 2009, announced yesterday in Prishtina Vice President of World Bank for Europe and Central Asia, Shigeo Katsu, after the meeting with Prime Minister of Kosovo, Hashim Thaçi.

In the first half of 2008, Kosovar economy has shown indifference towards the unstable global macroeconomic environment even though there has been a light absence of liquidation and a continous rise of consuming prices.

Germany has given first EUR 40 million from the 100 million this country pledged for Kosovo at the Donors' Conference in July.