Albania-Kosovo customs union project halted indefinitely, Supreme State Audit finds

TIRANA, Jan. 30 – Behind political rhetoric of the Albanian government stepping up its customs union project with neighboring Kosovo, the reality on the ground is quite different with a series of barriers preventing economic cooperation and a common market of about 5 million consumers. An audit into the much-rumored project by Albania’s Supreme State Audit has shown the consecutive deals the two governments signed during the past four years in the four joint government meetings they  held, were characterized by the expression of goodwill, but did not translated into real government policies that would responsibly and successfully conclude the…