TIRANA, Nov 19 /ATA/ Parliament continues today the discussion on the 2025 draft budget, following yesterday’s marathon session that lasted over 12 hours.
At the start of yesterday’s session, Prime Minister Edi Rama outlined the draft budget for the upcoming year, announcing that the year- end bonus for pensions up to 20,000 lek will be tripled to150 euros, while for those with a monthly pension above 20,000 lek, it will be doubled to 100 euros.
Rama also announced the creation of a fund at the Bank of Albania, intended to finance the spring bonus for pensioners.
“Thanks to the sustainable growth of the economy, we are setting up a fund at the Bank of Albania starting in December for a second bonus for pensioners, the New Spring Bonus,” Prime Minister said.
Meanwhile, the Minister of Finance, Petrit Malaj, emphasized that the 2025 draft budget fully realizes the main objectives of fiscal policy, through a positive primary balance, reduction of public debt, targeting a debt level of 55.8% of GDP for 2025, and a productive ratio between the total net borrowing of the budget and the central government’s capital expenditures, achieving a positive current balance of 3.6% of GDP.
“According to our baseline scenario of the macro-fiscal program for 2025, we anticipate an economic growth of 3.9%,” stated Minister Malaj.
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