Berisha: 'The open Balkans' destroyed thousands of farms in Albania

The President of the Democratic Party, Sali Berisha, also spoke about the "Open Balkans" initiative, calling it a black chapter that damaged thousands of Albanian farms due to the lack of protection and quotas for local products. Berisha guaranteed a new support for agriculture, archiving this project and giving priority to the development of the rural sector in Albania.

Berisha : The most unheard of practices ever, ever. They installed in this country a group of thieves who were transferred from Tirana Municipality to the government.

Can anyone imagine that a road, specifically half of the Ring of Tirana, 13 kilometers of the Ring of Tirana, will be broken into 14 lots, 14 contracts to steal, to be fined 14 times. It is the classic scheme that Edi Rama used with building permits.

Edi Rama gave permission, the builder would build a palace, the permission was for the stairs, for the next step the next permission, for the next step the next permission to build it three times.

And they brought this scheme. They brought this scheme, and today from 57 billion euro common budgets in 11 years. Tell me, what have they built? where are they

A good part of the roads started at that time have not been completed. The Ring has not been completed, three lots have been built in that period. The Qukës-Qafë Plloç road has not been completed, it is still being worked on in the Bajpas of Vlora. The Arbër road has become a maze, it never ends.

But the billions disappear.

Therefore, there can be no doubt that we will build, no, we will build.
Of course, we will return to the waters. We had and have a goal of 24 hours of water for Albanians. Albania is the richest country with water. With the money of the Llogara tunnel, which cuts 13 minutes in total and excludes the most panoramic pass of Albania. The tunnel closes Llogara's eyes. With that tunnel, the sewage system from Semani to Ksamil. That they are all pouring into the sea today, and what we built, and they are out of order.

I gave this example.

We will build, we will build strongly, but in the funds, the absolute priority will be the citizen.

Not only the needy citizen, no. We return to the conservative party, the party of low taxes. We are for the prosperity of Albanians.

And we believe that the way to increase income and increase welfare is through tax reduction. We return to low taxes, as we have been, even more we can study them, we can follow them.

We strongly return to the support of agriculture. There is no developed country without developed agriculture. Farmers often repeat this, but they repeat it very rightly.

Even if 3% production contributes to the national domestic production, they should be a developed sector, not abandoned as it is today.

Is there anything more absurd than determining 44 million euros for 20% of the population in Albania that contributes 20% of GDP.

No, we strongly revert to subsidizing farmers. We return to the orientation of fruit and culture. We do not dictate, but encourage, and we will encourage. In addition to field products, we will strongly promote the planting of hills and mountains with fruit trees.

Faik Konica, called Albania in his greatest merit: the rock garden.
Rocky, because Albania is rocky, let's be realistic. Rocky, but it's a garden. It's okay, we'll do it. We will return to the projects. We return to the olive tree, we return to the walnut trees, we return to the fruit trees.
On the other hand, we will absolutely subsidize every head of cattle, every unit of production. We end hostile taxation towards farmers. Hostile towards them.

The open Balkans comes to an end. It is archived as one of the blackest chapters that destroyed thousands and thousands of farms in Albania.

Farms are not destroyed in the EU, no, because they have rules, they have quotas.
No one accepts to open the border for other farmers to destroy his farmers.

No, no, it's not true. It is true as it has worked with quotas, the function with rules.

And as you have seen, you have not heard the German farmer complain about the French farmer, or the Italian farmer. And this was the first step in an anti-national act with the deception that the truck is 1300 days late at customs. Open borders.

Of course, farmers who receive subsidies 8 times more than our farmer. Farmers who have billions and billions of investments in their land even during Tito's Yugoslavia.
They are more productive, they are more competitive.

So, we will give strong support to agriculture.