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"The ratification of this agreement creates the possibility of obtaining pensions for about 70,000 Albanians living and working in Canada, as well as for Canadian citizens who come to work in Albania as employees in mining or energy companies.
According to the agreement, the employees will not lose even a single day of paid contributions, regardless of the place where they worked." - said during the discussion of the law in parliament the Minister of the economy Anila Denaj, who also specified that Albanian citizens will receive a pension even if they decide to return to live at home.
The agreement between the two countries was signed last May 1 by the Canadian foreign minister - Chrystia Freeland - and by the Ambassador of Albania in Canada, Ermal Muça.
Albania-Italy: pensions agreement stalled
The last of these agreements was signed with Germany in 2017, while an agreement has not yet been reached with Italy where thousands and thousands of Albanian citizens live and work.
An attempt was made last February by the senator of the Democratic Party, Tommaso Nannicini, who had proposed an amendment that allocated 20 million euros for the signing of a bilateral convention between Italy and Albania concerning pensions.
Despite this, the proposal - although passing the scrutiny of the budget committee - was not approved by the parliamentary majority in the work commission.
In this sense, the Albanian community in Italy is signing and sharing a petition - which today counts almost 7000 signatures - concerning precisely the mutual recognition of pensions between Italy and Albania, to give a "push" to the two countries to find an agreement and not allow that the thousands of Albanian citizens living in Italy lose their right to a pension.