Italian PM pays surprise visit to Albania

Friday, August 18, 2023

This week, the Prime Minister of Italy Giorgia Meloni paid an unexpected visit to Albania, connecting with
thousands of summer vacationers who have selected the Balkan nation over Italy’s rising expenses and
severe weather.

Meloni picked a low-cost path, going for a ferry ride from the southern Italian section of Puglia where she
holidayed with her family to the Albanian port of Vlorë.

Albania is one of Europe’s poorest nations. It has fought for decades to get rid of a status for fraud and
systematized wrongdoing that made hundreds of thousands of Albanians to move away from their
country.

However, Albania is now reveling in a financial renewal partly because of a tourism explosion. Enticed by its Mediterranean beaches at reasonable prices, airline commuters to Albania doubled more than from the expected levels in June compared to the equivalent time a year before, as per ACI Europe, an organizations of airport operators. The inaugural of inexpensive paths to Albanian airports backed to that increase, said ACI.

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