{"id":32690,"date":"2022-03-09T15:46:20","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T14:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=32690"},"modified":"2022-03-09T15:46:20","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T14:46:20","slug":"price-hikes-in-kosovo-kurti-this-is-the-cost-of-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/price-hikes-in-kosovo-kurti-this-is-the-cost-of-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Price hikes in Kosovo, Kurti: This is the cost of freedom!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kosovo\u2019s PM Albin Kurti declared earlier today that the rise in prices for oil and basic products is the cost we have to pay for living in a free and democratic country.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, he said that the Russian aggression in Ukraine is what\u2019s dictating prices hikes and that the government has nothing to do with it, said KosovaPress.<\/p>\n<p>During a government meeting, the head of state promised rigorous auditing in order to prevent any manipulations or unfair price gouging as a result of the crisis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know and I understand your concerns when it comes to these price hikes as they are the concerns all of us share \u2013 even though we are not the ones that caused this, neither our country nor our government. However, it influences all of us. 13 days ago, we joined the western world\u2019s initiative to sanction the Russian aggression in Ukraine \u2013 and this is an unavoidable cost we all have to pay. However, this is the cost for freedom and democracy,\u201d \u2013 said Kurti.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, he said that Kosovo is greatly dependent on its imports, as a result, according to Kurti, of the negligence shown by prior administrations in terms of prioritizing and investing in domestic production.<\/p>\n<p><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/balkans\/2022\/03\/09\/serbia-halts-grain-exports-as-war-angst-cripples-albanian-markets\/\">Serbia halts grain exports as war angst cripples Albanian markets<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/kosovo\/2022\/03\/09\/how-is-the-oil-crisis-manifesting-itself-in-kosovo\/\">How is the oil crisis manifesting itself in Kosovo?<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2022\/03\/08\/prices-expected-to-rise-from-30-all-the-way-to-50-says-head-of-kash\/\">Prices expected to rise from 30% all the way to 50%, says head of KASH<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kosovo\u2019s PM Albin Kurti declared earlier today that the rise in prices for oil and basic products is the cost we have to pay for living in a free and democratic country. In addition, he said that the Russian aggression in Ukraine is what\u2019s dictating prices hikes and that the government has nothing to do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":32691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[163],"tags":[382,825,815,300,151,383,469,633,284,285,637],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Price hikes in Kosovo, Kurti: This is the cost of freedom! - 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\/price-hikes-in-kosovo-kurti-this-is-the-cost-of-freedom\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Price hikes in Kosovo, Kurti: This is the cost of freedom! - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Kosovo\u2019s PM Albin Kurti declared earlier today that the rise in prices for oil and basic products is the cost we have to pay for living in a free and democratic country. 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