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TIRANA, Jan. 18 – The government will create a 12-member commission that is to coordinate the country’s next census.
The new census will also record the ethnic and religious composition of individuals in an effort to end frequent disagreement on those figures.
That has attracted the criticism from different personalities arguing that it would allow many Albanians to embrace Greek nationality and benefit from the higher pensions Greece pays to its minorities.
Athens says there are about 150,000 Greek minority citizens living in Albania, while authorities say the actual number is 30-50,000.
It is very likely that the census may be held under the supervision of international institutions like the Council of Europe.
