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Berisha: The Open Balkans will be torn apart on the first day of the DP government

Politiko 2025-04-27 20:41:28

Berisha: The Open Balkans will be torn apart on the first day of the DP

The leader of the Democratic Party, Sali Berisha, during his speech at a meeting with citizens of Kuçova, said that the government subsidizes 32 million for farmers. Berisha promised the farmers that this amount will be 5-fold and that for each production unit they will be financed in the same way as farmers from the surrounding countries are financed.

Berisha: My friends! Liljana rightly presented here the extremely difficult situation of Albanian farmers. You should know that, after signing the 'Open Balkans' as Vucic's pledge, 80 percent of agricultural products in Albanian markets come from Shumadia and Banata, because they enter without customs.
A mass slaughter of cattle began in Albania. The subsidy you receive is 1/5 of what the farmer in North Macedonia receives, it is 1 of 7, or 8 of what the farmer receives in Serbia. It is 1 or 4 or 5, of what the farmer in Kosovo receives. It ends.

And what Edi Rama did this year, I'm sorry. 8 billion euros, for 380 thousand farmers who give 20% of the domestic production, who employ 500 thousand Albanians. How much? It gave a total of 57 million euros, of which farmers receive a subsidy of 32 million. My word of honor is that this amount will be 5-fold. Yes. Because for every production unit, greenhouse, field or whatever, for every plant planted, for every head of cattle kept, you will be financed in the same way as the farmers of the surrounding countries are financed. So the subsidy will be 5-folded and I guarantee you that your products will be protected in season. That the Open Balkans will be torn apart on the first day of the Democratic Party's government and that the hostile tax on Albanian farmers, the symmetrical tax of TSVH, comes to an end.

The tax will be on purchases and sales, because you should get VAT back and not wholesalers.
I guarantee you that 70 million euros will be invested every year in drainage, irrigation, soil protection. Friends, here is the Banja hydropower plant, it is first and foremost an irrigation work and therefore it was built and energy is secondary. I assure you that its potentials will be used to double the irrigated area in Albania. My friends! 'Made in Albania', Albanian production will be our pride. I guarantee the businessmen of Kuçova and Albania. Small business, energy drops from 18 to 6 lek.
Municipalities will never be able to impose taxes and fees more than 1%. But since I am here with the municipalities, I will express my greatest respect for you, for the democrats of Kuçova, for your victory in May of this municipality with Lefter Maliqi, they were robbed. I guarantee you that the law will act with the greatest force before those who robbed your mandate.