RAMA: WAGES AND PENSIONS WILL NOT BE CUT FOR ANY REASON

THE PRIME MINISTER ANNOUNCES AN EXPANSION OF THE GREEN MOVEMENT ZONES Basha meets representatives of garment manufacturers: The government is pushing them toward closure. Waiver of quarantine fines, all licences will be returned by 15 May Basha meets representatives of garment manufacturers: The government is pushing them toward closure. Waiver of quarantine fines, all licences will be returned by 15 May (In photo) Prime Minister Edi Rama. Lulzim Basha in a meeting with garment industry leaders On pages 6-7

COVID-19 and Europe between globalisation and sovereignty

Editorial

The mecononavirus, human society, the world as we knew it until 12 March, will never be the same again. And together with society, the global economy will also be different...

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World Bank: Aid packages must be implemented quickly, the economy will fall by 7%

Figure 1. Real GDP Growth, Two Scenarios for 2020 “Business shutdown, the government must react” World Bank: Aid packages must be implemented quickly, the economy will fall by 7% “The main factors affecting the labour market. The effectiveness of the measures from the executive must increase” By ORNELA MANJANI The World Bank projected the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Albanian economy in two scenarios. In the first, if the crisis lasts only one quarter, the economic decline will be 5%. In the second, if the pandemic extends over two quarters, the decline... On page 4

Among human stories in the Montenegrin community in Elbasan

How former Yugoslav residents came to Albania in the years after Liberation Marinko Culafiç: There is still no enforcement of the law on minorities By REZARTA DELISULA The history of the existence of the Serbo-Montenegrin ethnic minority in official documents dates back to the year 1416. This minority is concentrated in the northern area of Albania, in the cities of Shkodër and Koplik, and in the municipalities of Gruemirë, Vrakë... however, persons belonging to this minority are also settled in the districts of Lezhë, Durrës, Tira- në, Elbasan, Librazhd, Fier... REPORTAGE On pages 11-13

caused by the COVID-19 virus, and the coronavirus, human society, the world as we knew it until March 12, THE PRIME MINISTER ANNOUNCES THE EXPANSION OF GREEN MOVEMENT ZONES the researcher: The pandemic second, if the pandemic extends into the second quarter, a decline... Serbo-Montenegrin in official documents dates from northern Albania, in the cities of Shkodër and Koplik, Vrakë... however, people who belong to this minority are settled, ILLEGAL CONSTRUCTIONS