Tourism expert, Flora Xhemani Baba, has expressed her concern regarding fuel prices in Albania and their impact on the northern areas of the country.
She said that residents of Kukës, Korça and Tropoja do not buy oil in Albania but in Kosovo, North Macedonia and Montenegro.
According to her, this phenomenon is the result of high taxes within the country, which, according to the Prime Minister, are justified as a way to finance services and infrastructure, but which in practice create a burden on citizens.
“Kukësi. Korça, Tropoja do not buy oil in Albania, they buy it in Kosovo, Macedonia and Montenegro because the prime minister’s justification has always been that there are some taxes that the countries of the region collect from their citizens from other sources, while we have collected them on oil with the justification that every Albanian family has a car and it must definitely pay,” Xhemani Baba said on Euronews Albania.
“It seems like an open mockery to me,” said Xhemani Baba, criticizing the idea that only pensioners would be reimbursed for the increase in the price of oil.
She noted that most pensioners do not own cars, so this measure would be unusable for them.
The expert said that it is easy to make political propaganda, but when politics intervenes in economic issues without considering the reality of people’s daily lives, the result is “open and disgusting cynicism.” /Telegraph/