Post by account_disabled on Mar 2, 2024 4:16:22 GMT -5
Faced with public outrage sparked by a video showing ministers and senior government officials dining with businessman Samir Mane at a luxury restaurant in Dubai, the government was quick to justify itself. With the propaganda director caught off guard biting Nusret's golden steak, Edi Rama himself was forced to issue a ridiculous statement in Tirana, excusing that this was a business visit, that ministers and other government officials had gone to Dubai for trouble and not for fun and that the money for the expensive dinner was not paid by the budget, but by the host of the Albanian delegation, the Emaar group.
Even the great respect for Albania and Ramen Cambodia WhatsApp Number Data personally, had forced the sheik Xymert to violate his religious faith by paying expensive haram wine for high officials from Albania. But beyond the ridiculous excuses, the government's statement has some truth to it. The real problem with the video is not sitting ministers down to dinner in the company of businessmen, however immoral and conflict of interest that may be. It is not even the expensive bill of the exotic restaurant, even if it was paid from the budget money. The real problem is the visit itself. Or rather its purpose. On December 3, the Parliament of Albania quietly approved a law on economic cooperation between the governments of Albania and the United Arab Emirates.
The whole substance of the law is but one article; exclusion from public procurement of all projects to be financed by Arab companies in Albania. That is, it gives the government the right to do business with companies from the United Emirates without any control and without any legal responsibility. The opposition within the Parliament did not even understand what was voted. The real opposition outside the parliament as well. The economic cooperation agreement with the EBA is an unprecedented legal act. Such a law has been attempted several times in the past also by companies from other countries, but in no case did the Albanian institutions issue even in the face of major projects. Until a month ago. The law has already passed and the salty bill for the country will come later.
Even the great respect for Albania and Ramen Cambodia WhatsApp Number Data personally, had forced the sheik Xymert to violate his religious faith by paying expensive haram wine for high officials from Albania. But beyond the ridiculous excuses, the government's statement has some truth to it. The real problem with the video is not sitting ministers down to dinner in the company of businessmen, however immoral and conflict of interest that may be. It is not even the expensive bill of the exotic restaurant, even if it was paid from the budget money. The real problem is the visit itself. Or rather its purpose. On December 3, the Parliament of Albania quietly approved a law on economic cooperation between the governments of Albania and the United Arab Emirates.
The whole substance of the law is but one article; exclusion from public procurement of all projects to be financed by Arab companies in Albania. That is, it gives the government the right to do business with companies from the United Emirates without any control and without any legal responsibility. The opposition within the Parliament did not even understand what was voted. The real opposition outside the parliament as well. The economic cooperation agreement with the EBA is an unprecedented legal act. Such a law has been attempted several times in the past also by companies from other countries, but in no case did the Albanian institutions issue even in the face of major projects. Until a month ago. The law has already passed and the salty bill for the country will come later.