Berisha: Future budget to concentrate on major projects

Erind Kurti, ALBANIAN TIMES


Albanian Premier, Sali Berisha, said that next year budget is going to be concentrated on some important projects and is not going to be divided in pieces, as has been the rule in the past. Albanian Premier considered this practice as a wrong one. “Next year budget will concentrate on major projects and will not be distributed in 1800 projects, as has been the practice on the past.


We aim at concentrating in those projects giving concrete results such as the Durres – Kosova motorway from which every Albanian citizen benefits”, said Berisha. Last year and this year we build motorways and next year we will build railways and continue to improve the transport in the country. We have opened our doors for investors in the railways, said Berisha. Shame that this comes just after an American court fined the government of Albania $20 million for breaking the contract with "General Electric" for the new electric railway “Golem – Durres – Tirana – Airport”.

The contract for the new railway which would have connected the airport with the two main cities and would have increased the tourism was signed by the socialist party when they were in the government in 2005. This was then refused by the democrats after winning the elections when they came into government on that year. The railway was drafted to be completed in two years costing 75$ million dollars and would have been serving Mother Theresa airport, the capital and the main touristic area.

Albanian government has planned to privatise the railway sector in the hope of better rail transportation which at the moment is in a desperate need of investment. Next years budget is being drafted but there are doubts the government will invest in railways. The budget for next year is being drafted by the finance minister and will be published later in the year but one of the major projects is the Southern Axis project for the new motorway of “Tirana – Elbasan – Berat – Tepelene”

3 comments:

  1. VIVA ALBANIA Y SU FUTURO ,ESTE PRESIDENTE ES MUY BUENO ESPERO LO DEJEN TRANQUILO LOS SOCIALISTAS Q PAIS QUE COJEN PAIS QUE ARRUINAN A LAS PRUEBAS ME REMITO,GRACIAS

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  2. a ju shkerdhyfte nena komunistave te felliqyr si mushkonjat duhan te jetojne parazita akoma ec para shqiperia tregohi botes cdo te thote shqiperi hallall e befte Zoti.

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    1. Almir, qenke fashist i Sales, ishalla po merr ndonje lek prej tij. Une per vete nuk po di kush eshte me keq. Nano mori rryshfet per kontraten po ama puna do behej per $75 milion. Berisha prishi kontraten, na la ne taksapaguesit nje gjobe $20 milion, dhe puna s'u be. Vendos vete ti Almir, mua mut se mut me duken te dy!

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