Albania: in Perpetual

Albania at the beginning of this year lived a very frightening situation, and this was not the first time in which the country found itself in such a situation; nor will it be the last one! And it was a frightening situation because the present crisis was neither just created by the present government, nor was it a crisis that blew up unexpectedly. In fact, it is a perpetual crisis which gets aggravated every day. This crisis is the result of the policies implied by the "neo-liberal consensus," i.e. the ideological justification used by the transnational elite for the institutional changes required by globalisation, namely, the opening and deregulation of capital, commodities and labour markets. It is not therefore surprising that the present crisis began after the fall of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.We will explore briefly the perpetual crisis in Albania starting from the past policies and their integration into the present ones, which has led to a state where the symptoms are continuously and disgracefully aggravated.