Albanian seasonal workers could go to Greece in May, PM says

Albania and Greece, whose borders are closed because of the coronavirus outbreak, agreed to work on paving the way to allow Albanian seasonal agriculture workers to go to Greece by mid-May, Albania's prime minister, Edi Rama, said on Wednesday.

Rama said he had talked with Greece's prime minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, about fighting the virus, reviving the economy and "specifically the mutual interest in helping the interaction about seasonal employment."

Greek farmers need 50,000 fruit and vegetable pickers in May and to work the land. Usually those hands come from neighboring Albania and fellow EU members Bulgaria and Romania. By that time, Tirana plans to relax its restrictions considerably.

"We agreed to look carefully together at the issue of the movement of seasonal workers, from Albania to Greece, in line with the mutual need to open the way to their...