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Editorial: Fixing the economy: lies won’t work

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TIRANA TIMES EDITORIAL The Tirana Economic Forum, an event with a rather presumptuous name, has nevertheless brought again the focus of discussions on the current economic situation in Albania and on its multiple challenges. In his speech, the Prime Minister Edi Rama set forward some observations for the current state of affairs and some of the measures to address the problems. When the diagnosis is incorrect the prescriptions that follow are also not going to help. The PM reiterated that unemployment according to the World Bank statistics is at an all-time low and preemptively said that it’s not due to…

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