{"id":23948,"date":"2021-10-30T12:32:35","date_gmt":"2021-10-30T10:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=23948"},"modified":"2021-10-30T15:52:16","modified_gmt":"2021-10-30T13:52:16","slug":"kosovo-adopts-e2-billion-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/kosovo-adopts-e2-billion-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Kosovo adopts \u20ac2 billion budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government adopted a \u20ac2 billion budget during its last meeting held Friday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Finance minister Hekuran Murati noted that the new budget is much higher than the revised one in 2021. He emphasized that the main goal is to revive the economy by boosting production and employment.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Albin Kurti declared that for the first time, more than \u20ac100 million will be allocated to the transition of the Kosovo Security Forces into a regular army.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the KSF is only tasked to act as an emergency-disaster force, but in 2018, Kosovo\u2019s parliament voted to update it into an army.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Kurti vowed increased support for students by offering over 2,000 scholarships.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith this budget, we have allocated \u20ac45 million to support new mothers. We made education free and we\u2019ll hand out two thousand scholarships for students of excellence. With this budget, we\u2019ll support science and research. We also added \u20ac35 million for pensions and social assistance schemes, so that no one receives a pension of less than \u20ac100\u201d, declared Kurti.<\/p>\n<p>Another major plan will be the construction of the Prizren-Tetova highway, which links Kosovo to North Macedonia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u20ac2 million for the Presevo Valley<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The government of Kosovo also allocated \u20ac2 million for the Presevo Valley.<\/p>\n<p>The gesture was welcomed by political leaders in Presevo, including mayor Ardita Sinani who hailed it as \u201cgreat news\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Former mayor Shqiprim Arifi declared that this has been a long time request, adding that the Albanian government is also set to share another \u20ac4 million for the Presevo Valley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government adopted a \u20ac2 billion budget during its last meeting held Friday evening. Finance minister Hekuran Murati noted that the new budget is much higher than the revised one in 2021. He emphasized that the main goal is to revive the economy by boosting production and employment. Prime Minister Albin Kurti declared that for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":23949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[163],"tags":[150,151],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kosovo adopts \u20ac2 billion budget - Euronews Albania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/kosovo-adopts-e2-billion-budget\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kosovo adopts \u20ac2 billion budget - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The government adopted a \u20ac2 billion budget during its last meeting held Friday evening. 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