Albanian Helsinki Committee (AHC) in cooperation with AIS/Open Data Albania while implementing the initiative “Improving Policy Debate and Accountability in Meeting the Criteria of the First Group of Negotiating Chapters”, financially supported by the Embassy of the Kingdom of Netherlands in Tirana.
Following Montenegro and North Macedonia, our country is getting ready to apply the development of a citizenship scheme for foreign investors, through the granting of “Golden Passports”. This vision of the Albanian Government has somewhat worried the community of international partners. It is worth quoting one of the recommendations of the European Commission in the report for Albania for 2022, through which measures were required to avoid this scheme, as it was considered incompatible with the EU acquis, as well as a potential risk for security, corruption and organized crime.
Due to the importance given to this mechanism by regional countries, the European Union, experts in the field and academics, AHC has been engaged in the drafting of a Position Paper aiming at the realization of an “Analysis, in the framework of the obligations arising from the integration process of Albania in the EU, of the risk of golden passports for security, organized crime and corruption”.
At the same time AIS/Open Data Albania, through a Policy Paper entitled “For the application of Financial Control in the Public Sector of State-Owned Companies through Auditing and meeting EU standards ” aims to analyze our country’s efforts to monitor publicly owned companies, based on the ESA2010 methodology.