An amendment to the law on the State Budget, proposed by Prime Minister Edi Rama last week, seeks to increase public debt by 11 billion lek, or EUR 92 million. This brings the total debt for this budgetary year alone to some EUR 1 billion. The government justified the amendments and the increase of the
Exit worked hard during the last 12 months to bring readers uncensored, verified, and breaking news. These are some of our favourite revelations from 2020. Agim Kajmaku Agim Kajmaku was the Socialist Party Mayor of Vora who was elected during the 30 June local elections. It was later discovered that he had lied on his
On Monday, the Albanian Parliamentary Assembly approved the budget for 2021, without any debate or opposition from deputies. As Exit has previously written, this is a budget for an election year and has little foundation in reality. In short, the budget predicts inflated revenues, inflated expenditures, and inflated investments that cannot be considered as logical.
Prime Minister Edi Rama has defended healthcare Public-Private Partnership contracts as successful and said that they give the state the opportunity to make investments even when there is no money. Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Rama said: “Public-Private Partnerships are investments that you receive today from the private sector because you do not have the
Later this week, the Montenegro courts will deliver the verdict on the case of investigative journalist Jovo Martinovic. He was arrested and charged with drug trafficking and associating with criminal gangs following his investigation into those very things. He spent 15 months in pre-trial detention and was then sentenced to 18 months in prison by
Montenegrin Opposition MP Nebosja Medojevic sent a number of questions to the government, including a request to publicly declare that they were not involved, in any way with the assassination of Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. Caruana Galizia was assassinated in October 2017 after a bomb was placed under her car. She was the
Steward Healthcare, the company set to engage in a corrupt PPP in Albania, Montenegro, and possibly North Macedonia required a state bailout in the US. As the COVID-19 pandemic took hold in the US, Easton Hospital in Pennsylvania which is run by Steward Healthcare said it would close its doors unless the state coughed up
Steward Healthcare, the American company eyeing up lucrative PPPs in Albania, Montenegro and Macedonia has failed to respond to the needs of Coronavirus patients in Malta. The private company which bought a multi-billion euro concession for just €1 to run three Maltese state hospitals has been sending those diagnosed with the virus to state hospitals. According
Steward Health Care, the US company eyeing up lucrative hospital PPPs with the Albanian, Montenegrin, and North Macedonian governments is reported to owe between €12 million and €15 million in Malta. The money is the result of tax and social security arrears that had been waived by disgraced ex-Prime Minister Joseph Muscat who was forced
Leader of the Democratic Party Lulzim Basha has claimed that the Albanian public health system is losing between €35-40 million every year to “corrupt affairs with PPPs” (Public-Private Partnerships). Speaking at the conference “Challenges and Visions in Health”, Basha said that Prime Minister Edi Rama’s claims about “free health” are a criminal lie. “Today the