Meta: Agriculture on credit, the new fraud!

The President of the Freedom Party, Ilir Meta, commented on the "Agriculture with Credit" scheme this Friday evening, which according to him is a fraud. 

In a reaction on social media, Meta writes that millions of euros donated by the European Union for agriculture have been appropriated by the government through "strategic investors", who have built swimming pools, villas and resorts, while real farmers have been left without financial support.

According to Meta, the lack of transparency and rampant corruption have forced the European Union to cut off grants for Albanian agriculture for two consecutive years, depriving our farmers of 120 million euros in non-refundable aid. He emphasizes that in the meantime, Serbia has benefited from a full 280 million euros from the EU for the agricultural sector.

In his post, Meta also criticizes the imposition of a 20% VAT on domestic products, describing it as a measure that suppresses domestic production and harms the competitiveness of Albanian farmers in the market.

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Millions of euros of money donated to our farmers by the European Union ended up in the pockets of "strategic investors" for villa and resort swimming pools.

They did not stop at their greed, as much as 310 thousand euros for Agriculture were extorted from an employee of the non-existent Tirana incinerator, whom they transformed into a farmer to pass the money on.

Meanwhile, zero funds for livestock farming, zero funds for greenhouses, fruit growing and agro-processing.

Faced with this rampant corruption, the EU cut off grants for Agriculture for the next two years.

A full 120 million euros in donated money was taken away from our farmers, because the EU wants the money from corruption returned.

Meanwhile, the mockery of farmers, livestock breeders, and agro-processors continues, promising them loans with sovereign funds.

So since the money forgiven by the EU for you dear farmers ended up in the pockets of corruption, then the Head of the Organization invites you to apply for sovereign loans just as he lied to you in 2015, in the same way and with the same banal deception.

We are the only country in Europe where agriculture receives zero European funds, while Serbia benefits from a full 280 million euros.

We are the only country in Europe that suppresses domestic production with a 20 percent value added tax.  There is no agriculture in the EU that is financed with loans, but only with direct donated money.  Therefore, "Agriculture with Loans" is simply a New Fraud.