Albanians are not only leaving, but they are finally abandoning the country. Today, President Bajram Begaj signed the decree for the relinquishment of Albanian citizenship.
From this decree, 75 former Albanian citizens have given up their country's passport. According to statistics, more than 521 thousand Albanian citizens have obtained the citizenship of one of the countries of the European Union in the last 20 years.

From immigrant to European citizen. More and more Albanians are giving up the passport of their country of birth to get that of a country that offers them more, at least in one direction, that of the economy.
According to data from the Institute of Statistics, last year there were 724 relinquishments of citizenship, 41 percent more than in 2020 and 2 times more than in 2014.