https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-albanians-come-to-britain/
Romeo Gurakuqi, a conservative MP in Albania until he was dropped by his party at the last election, used to be terrifically idealistic about politics 20 years ago. He says flatly that the way Albania is governed doesn’t square with it being a member of Nato and a candidate for EU membership: ‘The way of governance, arrogance, inequality, corruption, lack of control of the rule of law, lack of guarantee for the development of business and foreign investments in the country, have all increased the depression in society,’ he says.
Turkey’s president Erdogan is a close ally of Rama’s; he’s funding yet another mega mosque, in Albania, as part of his grand project to revive Ottomanism. But this type of investment is unusual.
For most Albanians, says Gurakuqi, times are hard: ‘Albanian society is in a deep depression, not only economic and social, but also a state of anxiety, insecurity about life, which extends to the lower and middle classes of society’.
Gurakuqi notes that many of the arrivals to the UK are from his own area, northern Albania; it’s discriminated against, he says, by a political class dominated by the south. He adds:
‘Why do they only come to the UK? I think that they are spread all over continental Europe. They move freely because Albania is part of the Schengen agreement. But they think the UK offers more opportunities.’
by cashteam676