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Prime Minister Edi Rama reacted to criticism of legal changes in the tourist port sector, accusing the opposition of trying to hinder Albania's development and integration process into the European Union.
During his statement, Rama focused more on the opposition's positions, which he said aim to create a negative image for the country. He claimed that in no other country in the region has it happened that political forces seek, according to him, to block the negotiation process with the EU through continuous denunciations and accusations against their country.
The Prime Minister stated that the opposition seeks to present Albania as a problematic country, while adding that this behavior is also being commented on by the country's international partners. Rama also spoke about the strategic investment law, saying that the government is working to transform it and avoid legal vacuums.
"We have not made any legal changes to tourist ports. We have made a single change to remove the possibility of an absurd consequence. The change is not related to tourist ports, to zero competitions. If the Albanian state will grant a concession or a partner to build a tourist port, it will be done only through competition. The change we have made is related only to cases when someone invests in a tourist resort and will build a marina. For the unchanged law, for the marina that someone will build near his resort, there must be competition for another to come and a fight will start that will never end. We were caused by the fact that we had not made the difference between a case when a tourist port is built and cases when the investors themselves who own the property on that territory want to build a marina. As in the whole planet, they must do it by paying the relevant obligation, by paying themselves. This is the big change. There is no change, except for their greed that they want to see Albania blocked like never before. This is what my friends tell me. We have not seen it coming any force that has negotiated with the EU or is in the process of opening negotiations and saying all kinds of nonsense to block the process. We do not come from a country with ethical, religious or ideological problems or from a civil war. No one has seen the Serbs of Montenegro or other countries demanding that the country be blacklisted. Have these countries had problems similar to ours? Of course! We have a kind of species here that is unique, that no country on the continent where we are, has had, in this process. That's all. For the law on strategic investors, we have in the process of transforming the entire law. The law has been postponed so as not to leave a vacuum with the old law. It was not our invention, but other countries have done it too", he said.
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