TIRANA, Dec. 20 – The Defense Ministry has issued a call a recruitment for 250 new new professional soldiers. For the next two months, army authorities will chose among the candidates who apply.
Albania has moved to a paid professional army, which means the soldiers and the other staff are on salary. The country had earlier had mandatory conscripts but did away with the model in the last decade.
The army has offered in its internet site the requirements the candidates should comply with.
Post-communist Albania has significantly reduced its army personnel to about 14-15,000 from almost 100,000 during the former communist regime.
Since 2009 Albania is also a NATO member who means it should work to fulfill its criteria of membership, especially its budget that should be 2 percent of the GDP, something not yet achieved so far.
