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Although the Edi Rama government has been hyping the possibility of a significant oil discovery beneath Mount Shpirag, the discovery has not yet come to pass ... Show more   balkaninsight.com/2024/04/18/shell-dashes-albanians-hopes-of-major-oil-find/
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Albanian PM refuses to apologize after pushing journalist who asked about Jared Kushner project
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Albanian PM refuses to apologize after pushing journalist who asked about ...
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Albania reopens communist-era air base after $54 million NATO refurbishment: Kucova air base in Albania reopened on March 4 after undergoing a 50 million euro ...
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Albania reopens communist-era air base after $54 million NATO ...
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Albaniens Edi Rama: "Leider hat die EU Wladimir Putin gebraucht": Wie nah ist Albanien dem EU-Beitritt? Der Ukraine-Krieg hat dem dem ...
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Albaniens Edi Rama: "Leider hat die EU Wladimir Putin gebraucht"
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Thousands gathered in Tirana, Albania to protest against Prime Minister Edi Rama's leftwing government and demand the release of opposition leader Sali Berisha ... Show more
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Is Albania ready to join the EU?: Albania is one of nine countries attempting to join the EU. What’s the process and is it ready to join?
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Is Albania ready to join the EU?
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The administration of Edi Rama is seeking to drastically alter the legislation on protected areas in order to facilitate construction for “strategic purposes” ... Show more   balkaninsight.com/2024/02/14/albanian-activists-condemn-govt-trick-paving-way-for-investments-in-protected-areas/
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On Tuesday, Albania and Turkey signed an agreement on “media and communications” during the course of Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama’s visit to Turkey ... Show more   balkaninsight.com/2024/02/21/turkey-albania-media-deal-risks-exporting-erdogans-propaganda-experts/
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Several activists gathered in front of Albania Prime Minister’s Office on Tuesday asking the Prime Minister to apologise to the journalist Ambrozia Meta after ... Show more   balkaninsight.com/2024/03/19/albanian-pms-intimidation-of-woman-journalist-condemned/
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Albania's parliament has ratified a migration agreement with Italy. It is based on a declaration of intent signed by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and ... Show more
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Albanian PM’s ‘Intimidation’ of Woman Journalist Condemned: Albania’s Prime Minister Edi Rama declined to answer questions from journalist Ambrozia Meta and ...
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Albanian PM’s ‘Intimidation’ of Woman Journalist Condemned
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Rama burns bridges with Beleri conviction | eKathimerini.com: Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama’s choice to cut ties with Athens was reflected by Tuesday’s ruling ...
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Muslim World League Secretary-General Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulkarim Al-Issa met on Wednesday Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama in the capital Tirana ... Show more
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Lucas: Follow the $$ through case of spies & State Dept.: Politics in Albania is tribal, mean and vindictive, just like in America.
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Lucas: Follow the $$ through case of spies & State Dept.
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Erdoğan receives Albanian PM as countries seek to enhance cooperation: Albania’s Prime Minister Edi Rama was in Türkiye on Tuesday upon the invitation of ...
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Erdoğan receives Albanian PM as countries seek to enhance cooperation
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Even in friendly Albania, Antony Blinken is hounded by Israel-Gaza war: US Secretary of State is on a three-day trip to Europe
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Even in friendly Albania, Antony Blinken is hounded by Israel-Gaza war
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The anatomy of a Kafkaesque drama: For the past nine months, Kathimerini has been drawing attention to the judicial odyssey of Fredi Beleri ...
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The anatomy of a Kafkaesque drama
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US committed to supporting Albania's EU accession: Blinken: Washington has been, is and will remain steadfast supporter of final recognition of Kosovo ...
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US committed to supporting Albania's EU accession: Blinken
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The protocols signed by Albanian PM Edi Rama and Italy’s Giorgia Meloni last November, by which the government in Tirana will allow Italy to build camps for ... Show more   balkaninsight.com/2024/02/13/albanians-arent-indebted-to-italy-for-its-1990s-welcome/
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Edi Rama’s government is attempting to radically change the law on protected areas, paving the way for construction for ‘strategic purposes’ and skipping the ... Show more   balkaninsight.com/2024/02/14/albanian-activists-condemn-govt-trick-paving-way-for-investments-in-protected-areas/
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Albania's Constitutional Court on Monday ruled that the controversial deal with Italy on hosting and processing migrants and refugees found at sea does not ... Show more   balkaninsight.com/2024/01/29/albanian-court-approves-deal-with-italy-on-processing-migrants/
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Albanian Officials Spent Thousands in Trump Hotel, US Report Shows: A report from the US Committee on Oversight and Accountability says the Albanian government ...
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Albanian Officials Spent Thousands in Trump Hotel, US Report Shows
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OPINION | If Albania wants to show it no longer tolerates corruption, corruption-related indictments must do more than just target the opposition ... Show more   balkaninsight.com/2024/01/04/berishas-arrest-is-welcome-but-albanias-whole-political-culture-needs-changing/
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Albanian court rejects ethnic Greek mayor-elect’s request to exclude two of the three judges from his trial on grounds of bias. Read more 👇🏼balkaninsight.com/2023/12/29/albanian-court-dismisses-request-to-exclude-biased-judges-from-beleri-trial/
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Former Albania PM put under house arrest amid corruption probe: Sali Berisha is accused of abusing his power when he led Albania over a decade ago.
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Former Albania PM put under house arrest amid corruption probe
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Migration across the Mediterranean: High hurdles for Italy's deportation center in Albania
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Migration across the Mediterranean: High hurdles for Italy's deportation ...
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Albanian Plan to Use AI to Align Laws With EU Questioned: Rama says his government will work with Chat GPT to align Albanian laws with the EU and so cut ...
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Albanian Plan to Use AI to Align Laws With EU Questioned
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Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama has repeatedly claimed that Albania will not pay a large fine imposed by the International Court of Arbitration as ... Show more   balkaninsight.com/2024/01/22/albanias-air-traffick-controller-accounts-blocked-in-brussels-for-unpaid-fine/
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Migration cannot replace population growth: Albanian Prime Minister defends migration agreement with Italy. Elon Musk says migration cannot replace population ...
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Migration cannot replace population growth
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Despite promises of a tax-funded healthcare system, Albanians still have to pay for a large part of their medical costs themselves ... Show more   balkaninsight.com/2024/01/17/the-price-of-heath-albanian-patients-count-the-cost-of-medical-bills/
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Albania’s Latest Cabinet Changes Are Window-Dressing, Analyst Says: Prime Minister Rama's latest cabinet re-organisation, creating one new ...
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Albania’s Latest Cabinet Changes Are Window-Dressing, Analyst Says
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Albanian Court Dismisses Request to Exclude ‘Biased’ Judges From Beleri Trial: Albanian court rejects ethnic Greek mayor-elect's request to exclude two of ...
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Albanian Court Dismisses Request to Exclude ‘Biased’ Judges From Beleri ...
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Lucas: Echoes of Trump in Albania: What is sad about it all is this: Little struggling former communist countries like Albania imitate the United States and look ...
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Lucas: Echoes of Trump in Albania
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Prolonged deadlock persists over Beleri’s detention: Greece is anticipating an initiative from the Albanian government of Prime Minister Edi Rama to address the ...
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Prolonged deadlock persists over Beleri’s detention
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Letter to Rama: Beleri challenges interim appointment plans: Fredi Beleri, the incarcerated ethnic Greek elected mayor of the Albanian region of Himare ...
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Letter to Rama: Beleri challenges interim appointment plans
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Tentative step taken in Beleri case: In a move on Thursday that, under certain circumstances, might open the door to a compromise in the case of jailed ethnic ...
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Tentative step taken in Beleri case
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Balkan Insight's Transitional Justice : The incomplete remains of at least six people, suspected to be victims of the 1992-95 war, were exhumed from a mass grave in churchyard in the Novo ... Show more   balkaninsight.com/2023/11/13/italian-refugee-deal-draws-xenophobic-meme-response-in-albania/
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Meloni's asylum procedure camp in Albania: Interim camp not planned: Meloni and her Albanian counterpart Rama agree on a stopover for people rescued from the ...
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Meloni's asylum procedure camp in Albania: Interim camp not planned
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Pyro in Parliament: Opposition lights smoke flares - to prevent voting: The Albanian parliament, which is dominated by the Socialist Party, actually wanted to ...
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Pyro in Parliament: Opposition lights smoke flares - to prevent voting
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Rishi Sunak in Rome for illegal migration talks with Italy and Albania leaders: The Prime Minister will also make an appearance among at a right-wing political ...
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Rishi Sunak in Rome for illegal migration talks with Italy and Albania ...
Quick Glance: Sunak Warns of Migrant Threat: UK & Italy Fund Tunisia Plan
  • Rishi Sunak warns of overwhelming Europe with illegal migration, proposing changes to global refugee rules.

  • The UK and Italy will jointly finance a project to promote and assist the voluntary return of migrants stuck in Tunisia.

  • Following talks with Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Albania’s Prime Minister Edi Rama, Sunak and Meloni agreed to support a repatriation project.

  • In his speech at the Atreju event organized by Meloni’s Brothers of Italy party, Sunak emphasized the need for radical solutions to protect countries’ borders.
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Why is the West banking on Rama?: Judgment time is near for the jailed mayor-elect of the ethnic-Greek Albanian town of Himare, as the special corruption court ...
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Why is the West banking on Rama?
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Italy: Meloni's migration agreement with Albania meets with criticism: After Giorgia Meloni signed a migration agreement with Albania, the opposition and ...
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Italy: Meloni's migration agreement with Albania meets with criticism
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Meloni’s Migration Deal Called Into Question by Albanian Court: Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas ...
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Meloni’s Migration Deal Called Into Question by Albanian Court
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Camp in Albania: Meloni wants to take asylum seekers out of the country: Facilities are to be created in Albania for this purpose. The aim is to process asylum ...
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Camp in Albania: Meloni wants to take asylum seekers out of the country
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Albanian opposition smoke-bombs parliament: An Albanian opposition member of parliament (MP) has disrupted a plenary session of the parliament ...
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Albanian opposition smoke-bombs parliament
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Albanian PM defiant over Beleri issue: Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama has reiterated his position on the case of Fredi Beleri, the ethnic Greek mayor-elect of ...
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Albanian PM defiant over Beleri issue
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Albania’s ‘Police Vetting’ Criticised as Too Slow, Too Opaque: Albania has little to show from a police vetting process that the government said would “clean up” ...
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Albania’s ‘Police Vetting’ Criticised as Too Slow, Too Opaque
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Rome-Tirana migration deal: Italian left wants Rama's party out of EU socialists: Italy’s left-wing Democratic Party has called for Albania’s Socialist Party ...
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Rome-Tirana migration deal: Italian left wants Rama's party out of EU ...
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Justice or Revenge? Albania’s Former Strongman Battles Corruption Charges: Sali Berisha could end his long public career in jail if found guilty of corruption ...
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Justice or Revenge? Albania’s Former Strongman Battles Corruption Charges
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NATO Mission in Kosovo Rejects Calls to Police Tense North: KFOR mission dismisses Serbian and Albanian calls for it to start policing the restive Serb-majority ...
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NATO Mission in Kosovo Rejects Calls to Police Tense North
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EU enlargement: Balkan countries fed up with long wait: A new approach to membership in the European Union. That is what Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama ...
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EU enlargement: Balkan countries fed up with long wait
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Olaf Scholz's memorable three minutes at the UN Security Council: In New York, the United Nations discusses the war in Ukraine. It turns out that Russia has few ...
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Olaf Scholz's memorable three minutes at the UN Security Council
Quick Glance: Scholz Supports Peace Efforts in Ukraine
  • Chancellor Scholz calls for intensified efforts to end the war at the UN General Assembly.

  • Warning against a false peace and labeling peace without justice as dictatorship.

  • 19 months have passed since the Russian invasion in Ukraine without a foreseeable end.

  • Scholz expresses satisfaction with progress on the reform issue and the climate summit during the UN General Assembly.
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Não sei se ouviram dizer que a Rússia está a debater a unificação da sua hora porque têm uma diferença horária de nove horas de uma ponta à outra do país" ... Show more   www.tagesspiegel.de/internationales/putin-und-der-tod-von-wagner-chef-prigoschin-albanischer-regierungschef-sorgt-mit-makaberem-witz-fur-lacher-10418662.html
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Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama told a joke about Putin and Prigozhin.
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The UN Security Council chairman, Edi Rama, tells Vasily Nebenzya, Permanent Representative of Russia to the United Nations ... Show more   media.un.org/en/webtv
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‘Stop the war’ and Zelenskyy won’t speak: UN Security Council chair tells Russia: It was to be Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskyy’s first in- person ...
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‘Stop the war’ and Zelenskyy won’t speak: UN Security Council chair tells ...
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Vacation in Albania: Italian tourists cheat, embassy pays the bill: An unpaid restaurant bill of 80 euros in an Albanian tourist resort becomes a political issue ...
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Vacation in Albania: Italian tourists cheat, embassy pays the bill
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Mediterranean: Boundless openness: Albania's prime minister receives his Italian colleague for a short vacation. And thus demonstrates self-confidence and ...
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Mediterranean: Boundless openness
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Albania’s Rama Condemns Greek Intervention in Vote-Buying Arrest: Edi Rama says the arrest of ethnic Greek mayoral candidate Fredi Beleri is a matter for the ...
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Albania’s Rama Condemns Greek Intervention in Vote-Buying Arrest
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Excluded from Athens dinner, Rama says ‘Once the Balkans, always the Balkans': Asked by EURACTIV, Rama did not want to comment on the incident and attributed the ...
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Excluded from Athens dinner, Rama says ‘Once the Balkans, always the ...
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Birds or Tourists: Who May Land Here?: For centuries, pelicans and flamingos sailed into the Narta Lagoon in southern Albania. Now Behgjet Pacolli ...
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Birds or Tourists: Who May Land Here?
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Because of minority rights: Greece could block Albania's accession to the EU: Greece's Prime Minister Mitsotakis is at loggerheads with Albanian Prime Minister ...
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Because of minority rights: Greece could block Albania's accession to the ...
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TIMELINE: The Crime Scandals Engulfing Albania’s Ruling Party: Albania’s Edi Rama says he and his government bear no responsibility for the legal woes of his ...
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TIMELINE: The Crime Scandals Engulfing Albania’s Ruling Party