At €1.59 euros per liter, oil prices in Albania have gone up again and drivers now have to pay the same as the Swiss, to fill up their tank.
These were the reports from Switzerland at the beginning of February. The Swiss are some of the most well-paid workers in all of Europe, getting as much as 16 times more for the same job in Albania.
Citizens have been expressing their concerns for quite some time. To them, these new prices are simply unaffordable.
“It’s too expensive, we can’t possibly afford this and we can’t go anywhere without a car either. Our salaries alone can’t pay for our fuel, let alone our children’s needs. Paying 1.64 euros a liter is too much,” – said a citizen.
There are currently well over 700.000 cars in our country, of which 74% use oil.
Minister of finance, Delina Ibrahimi has argued that this price hike is only a result of oil prices going up in foreign markets due to the global crisis.
At the end of today’s government meeting, she emphasized that the government can’t intervene with prices, but that it can however monitor the situation in order to foresee possible changes that could be made, giving no further details on what these details could actually be.
Lastly, the minister of finance said that oil prices are expected to go down by the second half of the year.
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