Rafuna: 250 workers removed, businesses getting ready to go to Albania, Macedonia, cause of free energy market

The chairman of the Kosovo Chamber of Economics (OEK), Lulzim Rafuna on the “Reel Talk with Maxhun”, which is broadcast in Periscop and T7, has shown that companies are closing and leaving their jobs due to the liberalisation of the Energy Market.

A company has completely halted production. Another company has embarked on the reshuffle and has announced part of the staff that after Bajrami's party, they should not work until they receive an announcement from the company. We also have companies that are starting to look at countries in the region. We have companies that are looking at Skopje to go to the Tetovo area, where it has been offered for 10 years by the Government of Macedonia without any expense and no additional costs to put business there and for use. Another one of us is blowing Kukes. We are on the fifth day and the effects have immediately begun to spread”, Rafuna said.

Asked what the number of workers in the company that has stopped production and the other is in reorganization, he has provided disturbing figures.

One has 200 employees and the other has 50. In total, 250 workers”, he said.

Rafuna has received an example that now, with electricity prices rising, one company will pay 740 thousand euros a month.

Until today he has paid 240 thousand euros in monthly bill with the new offer he has received from KESCO, he must pay 740 thousand euros. Half a million paid monthly for electricity prices. Half a million dollars after profit do you know how much business expansion and investment had been made. Now half a million should be given to a company or a supplier on behalf of electricity. As far as he gives it here, he goes to Kukes, Skopje or Tetovo and also works there at the lowest price of”, Rafuna said.

He has shown that there are businesses in Albania on the open market, but he stands behind with subvention.