HEADLINES
POLITICS
- Albanian socialist MP Gjylameti elected number two of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
- Electoral Review Committee held online after tensions
- Democrat holds PM responsible for “blocking” electoral reform
- Amandments for amnesty, Salianji: To be excluded from this right, people who have been elected as MPs
- European Comission harshly responds to Greece on “Beleri case”
- Director of KESH, Ergys Verdho resigns
- Albania to host Tourism Summit, ministers of Europe to summon in Tirana on April 7-9
- Economic situation in the country, Ilir Meta: Fair businesses are bancrupting , money laundering is blooming
ECONOMY
- Official note to businesses from the Directorate General of Taxation on the new law “On taxes over income”
- INSTAT: 57, 6% more foreigners entered Albania in December 2023
- Banking in Albania: Some softening in the credit demand, while the tightening of supply conditions is not over yet
- Opposition blames majority for objecting electoral reform
- Exchange of imovable properties will be taxed by 15%
- IMF: Bank of Albania to not intervene in Euro and ALL exchange rate
- Albania wins the regional trade race of in 2023
CURRENT EVENTS
- Intensification of penalities for disruption of order in parliament has effect on opposition’s protest; no more chairs and flares, only banners and hooters
- Man who built C-4 remote control bomb busted in Lezha
- Vau i Dejes, man arrested for violating wife and four children
SOCIETY
- Stable weather expected at weekend
- iNEWS: Albania among the most cheapest countries to be visited instead of Barcelona
