
Prime Minister Edi Rama participated today in the event "Double your entrepreneurship". The national government support program for small and medium-sized businesses on the path of 35 years of market economy, begins its implementation.
During his speech, Rama also spoke about the strengthening of the lek and the decline of the euro, a movement he considers a stubborn fact for the growth of the country's economy.
"The strengthening of the lek is a success for the Albanian economy. It is a stubborn indicator of economic growth. In a country where billions and billions enter every year. Talking about drugs and such nonsense can flatter many people who need bad news, but it is irrelevant.
If it were true, it would be news that would not come from information channels like those who play the violin by ear, but from international financial channels that follow our economy with a magnifying glass. Is there an informal economy in Albania? Of course there is. There is also dirty money, but where isn't there?
It is very evil to dress Albania, being Albanian, in this kind of dirty costume. I don't know what kind of people are doing it. Your part is also in this program. Businesses pulled the rope a lot with salaries and now they are ready to pay even more than in Greece.
But now we need to build the trust of Albanians who have now left to work in Greece. Albania today no longer lives by achievements, but by expectations.
When I came here, there were more people on the stairs than there are here in the hall. They were all tourists. Today you see more tourists on the streets of Tirana. In June we had a plateau, with an increase of only 1 percent. But the truth is that 5.7 billion euros enter our country from foreign tourists.
We discuss that there is a huge dirty money laundering machine here. But who would let us advance to the EU? The idea alone would have stopped us and we would have been prey to in-depth EU inspections. Today the system is fighting, until yesterday it was not doing this.
The fact that people involved in the network that enabled the behavior of people who enabled the behavior of dirty money are being caught is big news and an indication that they are being hit from all sides. One of these 'fast food' that the algorithm brings, with an appearance of competence, but a character without any attributes, education and not a day of work except in the gossip industry, said: Why has the euro fallen?
"Yes, the lek has strengthened, that was the answer, and they pretended to have caught a blunder. But this is the truth. We have the largest airport in the region, above Belgrade, for several years, without subsidies, because they subsidize there. What kind of money is this? How can the lek not strengthen after all these indicators?" Rama said.