TIRANA, November 18/ATA/ Deputy Prime Minister, at the same time Minister of Infrastructure and Energy, Belinda Balluku stated today that the draft budget of 2025 is ambitious and supports and stimulates sustainable economic and social development, as well as the continuation of deep reforms undertaken in all sectors towards the fulfillment of the strategic vision, Albania 2030″.
According to Balluku, the draft budget grants to the Ministry of Infrastructure and Energy 74 billion ALL, of which 67.38 billion ALL are capital expenditures.
“It promotes better interconnection and regional development as one of the keys to the success of the economic development of the Western Balkans”, said Balluku.
The Deputy Prime Minister emphasized that in the 2025 draft budget there is foreseen significant support for Corridor 8 and the Blue Corridor, as two of the most important and strategic projects of the Albanian government.
“They are not simply high-speed highways, but they are connecting corridors that include road transport, rail transport and obviously also energy and digital lines, thus turning them all together into the most important Pan-European corridors,” she said.
The deputy prime minister emphasized that the 2025 draft budget also reflects a balanced geographic spread of investments and new projects from the north to the south and from the east to the west.
Speaking about the Arbri road, Balluku explained that there have been geological problems. “The Murrizi tunnel will be one of the most complicated engineering works in Europe, which at present-day is also being used by universities as a case study. There is only the Murrizi tunnel which is not delivered yet and its deadline is postponed to the spring of 2025. However, we hope that it will be operational within the current year. On the other hand, at present it takes an hour and a half to go to Dibra instead of six hours in the past”, she said. /j.p/p.s./
