During Monday's presentation of a military plant project in Tirana, Prime Minister Edi Rama also addressed pensions. He assured that “our pension plan is the only plan that gives pensioners more and enables families to have more tomorrow.”

The Prime Minister emphasized that “we now see with more optimism the gradual increase of the minimum pension to reach Euro 200 by the end of the fourth mandate”.

The Prime Minister emphasized that the aim is to achieve an average pension of Euro 400 based on insurance, while the minimum pension must be increased and this must also be included in the budget.

Rama emphasized that he has never strayed from the idea that pensioners are the most underpaid part of our society. “This is so true that as soon as we came to government, one of the things I have requested has been pension reform. If today there are two blocks of pensioners, where one block of pensioners is not a few, but approximately 220-230 thousand who receive better pensions and another block who receive lower pensions, this has come as a result of that reform,” said Rama.

Rama recalled that when the Socialist Party came to power, he found the country in more catastrophic conditions for pensioners because a ceiling had been set. The pension had been turned into a financial aid.

Meanwhile, the Prime Minister emphasized that the SP carried out a pension reform and established insurance as the basis of the entire process. He added that without the reform, a moment would come when the country's economy would collapse, as it did with the Ponzi schemes. "This is not what we want. All of this we do goes towards economic growth. We distributed two bonuses to pensioners, it is Euro 160 million in three months, and for a country like Albania it is a lot," Rama added.

Furthermore, the government is in talks with local vehicle structures manufacturer Timak over the conversion of a state-owned idle factory in Tirana into a military vehicle plant.

The new plant will assemble armored vehicles, artillery carriers, fire trucks, and ambulances. It will also make uniforms for the Albanian armed forces and the police.

The Albanian government aims to revive its dormant weapon production plants from the communist era by partnering with private investors through public-private ventures.

Founded in 2016, Timak specializes in producing, converting, and installing superstructures for vehicles like ambulances, fire trucks, and water tankers. It has offices in Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Kosovo, Turkey, and Montenegro.

In June last year, Timak unveiled the country’s first armored military vehicle prototype, an infantry mobility vehicle.