{"id":24930,"date":"2021-11-12T16:05:34","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T15:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=24930"},"modified":"2021-11-13T11:56:10","modified_gmt":"2021-11-13T10:56:10","slug":"albanian-diplomats-get-paid-the-least-in-the-entire-regions-says-democratic-mp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albanian-diplomats-get-paid-the-least-in-the-entire-regions-says-democratic-mp\/","title":{"rendered":"Albanian diplomats get paid the least in the region, says Democratic MP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Party MP, Tomor Alizoti raised the concern earlier today that Albanian diplomats get paid poorly when working abroad.<\/p>\n<p>Alizoti asked the Commission of Foreign Policies for a 17% rise in the 2022 budget of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, that would go towards better salaries for our diplomatic troupe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are diplomats that are paid poorly, very poorly. They can\u2019t allow themselves to represent Albania the way they should in European cities. They can\u2019t invite someone for a work lunch or diplomatic dinner in a serious restaurant. Albanian diplomats are the poorest in the region, they get paid the lowest in the entire region. Why does Kosovo pay their diplomats more decent wages?\u201d \u2013 asked Alizoti.<\/p>\n<p>This concern has been backed up by the head of the Commission herself, Mimi Kodheli, who also added however, that there hasn\u2019t been an improvement in the wages for this category through the years.<\/p>\n<p>Income for the diplomatic troupes living and working abroad on April 1, 2019, were as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ambassador \u2013 \u20ac1680 euros<\/li>\n<li>General consul \u2013\u00a0\u20ac1295 euros<\/li>\n<li>Advisor &#8211; \u20ac1080 euros<\/li>\n<li>First Secretary \u2013\u00a0\u20ac895 euros<\/li>\n<li>Second Secretary \u2013 \u20ac700 euros<\/li>\n<li>Third Secretary \u2013\u00a0\u20ac635 euros<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/11\/11\/french-and-german-ambassadors-first-igc-should-be-held-during-the-slovenian-presidency\/\">French and German ambassadors: First IGC to be held during Slovenian presidency<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/11\/10\/ambassador-yuri-kim-more-politicians-to-be-declared-non-grata\/\">Ambassador Yuri Kim: More politicians to be declared non grata<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/11\/09\/ambassador-soreca-visits-two-schools-rebuilt-with-eu-funds\/\">Ambassador Soreca visits two schools rebuilt with EU funds<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Party MP, Tomor Alizoti raised the concern earlier today that Albanian diplomats get paid poorly when working abroad. Alizoti asked the Commission of Foreign Policies for a 17% rise in the 2022 budget of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, that would go towards better salaries for our diplomatic troupe. \u201cThere are diplomats that are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":24931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[151],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Albanian diplomats get paid the least in the region, says Democratic MP - 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\/albanian-diplomats-get-paid-the-least-in-the-entire-regions-says-democratic-mp\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Albanian diplomats get paid the least in the region, says Democratic MP - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Democratic Party MP, Tomor Alizoti raised the concern earlier today that Albanian diplomats get paid poorly when working abroad. 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