Six years after the annual inauguration, the increased bill for the “Durres-Kukes” road has caused other debates in Parliament.
“More than 1.4 billion USD have been sucked in so far. A preliminary calculation made by the European Commission for standardizing the Durres-Morina segment shows that other 160 million EUR are needed”, said the Minister of Economy, Arben Ahmetaj.
The government is trying to pass the road maintenance to private concessionaries, but Ahmetaj says even this will not resolve the lack of funds.
The government claims to keep a high level of public investments, although they are trying to reduce the debt in the meanwhile.
But the opposition says that the figures of public investments has been artificially inflated, because the government has included the subventions for the KESH, funds that are related to the realization of revenues by the divident, which, according to the government, is impossible.
“The level of public investments is in the historic minimum with the GDP ratio, unequal even with that of 1997”, said the former Minister of Finances, Ridvan Bode.
The opposition also accuses the government of damaging the quality of investments by orienting them in projects that have no effect for the economy.
The next budget will be 452 billion, 417 of which comes from revenues, the rest from loans.
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