Ministry of Defense Budged and the Economic, Responsibilities as NATO Member

• Author: Mirela Metushaj
• Position: University of Tirana
• Pages: 134-138

ISSN 2410-3918 Academic Journal of Business, Administration, Law and Social Sciences Vol 1 No 1

Acces online at www.iipccl.org IIPCCL Publishing, Tirana-Albania March 2015

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Ministry of Defense Budged and the Economic

Responsibilities as NATO Member

PhD (Cand.) Mirela Metushaj

University of Tirana

Abstract

Every four years Albania is confronted with several social issues which demand real and immediate

solutions. ese issues are oen confronted with political implications oering no benet for the

civil society in general, or any of its levels, given the fact that all Albanian citizens are part of it in

dierent levels. e main level aected by these social issues is the poor, women, unemployed, the

youth and retired people. Albania is classied as the poorest country in the Balkan Peninsula and

overcoming the social challenge of life quality in all social levels is the main challenge. During the

last 10 years, the Albanian Governments has undertaken several reforms to meet all the criteria for

the European integration. One of the most important criteria is the economical reform aecting

the unemployment and the decrease of poverty, as these problems aect a considerable number of

families, and in the same time they aect education and health service, two other rings of the social

chains that are very important. Becoming a NATO member gave Albania a great encouragement

to face the next challenges of the international arena and in this sense the Albanian Government is

aware that being part of such an important organization would require availability and involvement

of human resources and nancial responsibilities, which would be a further burden for the budget.

erefore, it is important to create a suitable ground to implement these fundamental projects

for the society. is is another challenge for the Albanian people with requires responsibility and

sacrice to meet the so much hoped ideals of democracy and solidarity, which establish peace,

stability and prosperity for our country.

Keywords: NATO, poverty, international organization, state budget.

Introduction

Albania is located in Eastern Europe, a small country with a modest economical power

and one of the poorest countries of the region. e political history of the last 60 years

has not supported the social and economical development of the country. e country

lacks stability and welfare, which means that several generations have no idea of the

proper functioning of the state, which safeguards and assures prosperity to the society.

e totalitarian regime with its economic system where state owns everything was

replaced with capitalism, which found the Albanian economic system unprepared for

this radical change. Of course, the welfare level in Albania has increased aer the fall of

Communism, nevertheless, as in other ex-communist countries, there is a time called

“reection pause”, which diers in every country. e low level of welfare has caused

disorientation of the external and internal balances of the civil society, thus causing

political discontent, although not only a political party was leading the country, reason

which caused panic and insecurity for the future. During this period emigration became

one of the most problematic phenomena, especially during the rst years of democracy.