Xhixho: Albanians pay more for food than Europeans, the government is impoverishing the country on purpose

The Vice President of the Freedom Party, Erisa Xhixho, has raised the alarm about the continuous increase in food prices in Albania, while salaries and pensions remain at unaffordable levels for citizens.

Referring to Eurostat data, Xixho in a Facebook post

emphasizes that Albanians are paying more than many European Union countries for basic basket products, while the inflation reported by INSTAT is, according to her, manipulated.

She blames the policy pursued by the government for abandoning agriculture and plunging citizens into poverty, warning that this is part of the country's depopulation agenda.

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Albanians face prices 50% higher than Europeans. Even though wages in Albania are far below the European average, food baskets cost Albanians much more than Europeans.

According to the Eurostat report, the Food Price Index for our country exceeded 100% for the first time in 20 years.

Albanians buy eggs, cheese and milk more expensively, which are sold at 131% of the EU average, up from 120% a year ago.

Albanians buy at the same prices as Germans, Portuguese, and Italians, while paying more for the same products than Spaniards, Czechs, Poles, and Bulgarians.

What do these numbers tell us?

 The 2.1% inflation according to INSTAT is a fraud. Inflation is much higher than what the government is trying to sell us.

 About 800 thousand pensioners are deprived of even vital food products such as eggs, cheese or milk. How can a pensioner with a 100 euro pension survive at these prices?

Domestic production has decreased because Albanians have emigrated. Domestic production has a lower price because there are no transportation costs. We import more than 60 percent of food, agricultural products, and by-products. These are the consequences of the lack of support for agriculture and corruption with EU funds.

 Agriculture is today the fourth sector. It is subsidized 4 times less than Kosovo's with half the land.

More money goes into the government coffers through VAT, but there are no increases in salaries or pensions.

The government is getting richer, the Albanians are getting poorer. The depopulation agenda continues.