Senate approves Albania-Italy pension agreement, benefits over 500,000 Albanians

Socialist MP Etjen Xhafaj, through a post on social platforms, announced that the Foreign Policy Commissions in the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies in Italy have approved the pension agreement with Albania, along with amendments to providing relevant funds.

According to him, this is the last step and now remains the voting in the plenary session, for this deal affecting tens of thousands of Albanians.

The “Day has passed to the Foreign Policy Commissions, both in the Senate and in the Chamber of Deputies in Italy, the pension agreement with Albania, along with amendments to the adoption of relevant funds. The last step remains to be voting at the plenary hearing on the deal, affecting tens of thousands of Albanians. Thank you to all those from the Italian-Albanian side who have been involved in this deal since her generation! writes Xhafay.

Agreement Object

The object of this agreement is benefits from the mandatory social security scheme, which includes insurance on old age, disability and family pension, insurance for the benefits of illness and burden-bearing and ensuring unemployment.

There are over 500 thousand Albanian citizens in Italy directly benefiting from this agreement and about 4 thousand Italian citizens in Albania.

Since 2005 until today, Albania has signed a series of agreements on social security, including Turkey, Belgium, Hungary, Luxembourg, Czechia, northern Macedonia, Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, Canada, Romania, Kosovo, Switzerland Confederate and Croatia.

The agreements with Montenegro and Bulgaria are also expected to take effect. While agreements are under way with Poland and Serbia and have agreed to start negotiations on countries like Slovenia, Spain, Denmark, Moldova and the United Arab Emirates. The government is under way for adopting approval for starting negotiations with France. / RTSH