Two International Monetary Fund (IMF) missions arrived in Tirana today. It is learned that one of them will have a short visit and the other a long term one. IMF experts will hold meetings with senior representatives of the Ministry of Finance and the Bank of Albania.
The Fund will consult the new government on 2018 fiscal package and budget drafting, while discussing the fate of the agreement the IMF will have with the new government.
Both sides, like the IMF and the government, have agreed in principle to another 3-year deal, but the second program will change from the first. The agreement that the IMF had in 2013 was monitoring, while the second one is expected to be only advisory./Oculus News
