The well-known Italian newspaper " La Repubblica " has published an article regarding the major problems facing the Balkans.
Among other countries, the Italian media has also written about our country, where it is said that emigration is a worrying problem.
According to the United Nations, only Guyana has a higher percentage of residents abroad than Bosnia and Herzegovina and Albania . Emigration led to a decrease in the working-age population of the Western Balkans by over 400,000 from 2016 to 2020. The peoples of the Balkans, separated by everything, are united by the desire to leave .
The Belgrade government complains that Serbia is losing " a city a year ", the statistical institute observes with concern how the population has fallen by 10 percent in ten years, in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the United Nations research reveals that 72 percent of young think they live in a " structurally corrupt " country, from which almost half want to leave as soon as possible.
Hundreds of thousands escape poverty, corruption, pollution. And if in the past mainly workers left, today men and women, workers and graduates leave the Motherland.
United Nations forecasts are grim: Bosnia is destined to lose 60 percent of its population in the next fifty years, Albania 66 percent by the end of the century. But we should not focus on decades.
Although Prime Minister Edi Rama continues to enjoy the support of the European Union, only in the first five years of his "reign" 260 thousand Albanians immigrated to Europe. And in 2021, the flow resumed with 42 thousand departures.
La Republica writes that for the countries of the Balkan region, the EU used to be seen as " the cure for all diseases ", but that now this position does not have the same popularity./Adapted VoxNews received from La Republica,