Business: Political crisis to be solved

“If the political class would have found an agreement, the January 21st events wouldn’t have happened, and as consequence, this cost on the business would have been avoided. If they would have found an agreement for the Administrative Court, we would not be waiting three or four years in endless trials. If they would have found an agreement, they would have approved a full Fiscal Amnesty and not a halved one”. Bregasi declared.

Bregasi recognizes improvement in some fields, but he listed with a direct tone the problems that according to him are blocking the business.

“Many state owned projects are given through tenders to companies without a proper competition, and the number of winning companies is always smaller. Today we have more companies that are connected with the government as clients. These and other problems, such as the high level of corruption, have decreased the market competitiveness and have added difficulties in tenders. It seems like the electronic competition has offered more transparency, but our information suggest that in fact, the tenders have become more difficult”, Bregasi declared.

The government pretends that the law of Electronic Procurements has decreased corruption, but the business sees it differently.

“We can say that this law has more spaces for corruption than the first one”, declared Luigj Aleksi from the Association of Constructors.

Business Albania had invited in this meeting the OSCE ambassador, Eugen Wollfarth, who also spoke about good governing.

“More important is the implementation of laws and standards, which involves maximal work against corruption by making the processes transparent. The public tenders are a good example for the construction permits. The same goes with the concessions. It is a long list”, Wollfarth declared.

“Business Albania” is an organization that gathers dozens of other associations from all economic fields.

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