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/
Albanian PM refuses to apologize after pushing journalist who asked about Jared Kushner project
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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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Albanian PM blames West for delays and restrictions in supporting Ukraine: The Western Balkans are ready to contribute to the fight against Russia amid European ...
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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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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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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/
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/
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/
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
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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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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Zelensky to attend Ukraine-Southeast Europe summit in Albania: In Albania, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky will take part in the Ukraine-Southeast Europe ...
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Türkiye's assistance to Albania, Kosovo will never be forgotten: Albanian premier
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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
Lucas: Follow the $$ through case of spies & State Dept.: Politics in Albania is tribal, mean and vindictive, just like in America.
bostonherald.com/2024/02/22/lucas-follow-the-through-case-of-spies-state-dept/
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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Even in friendly Albania, Antony Blinken is hounded by Israel-Gaza war: US Secretary of State is on a three-day trip to Europe
thenationalnews.com/world/us-news/2024/02/15/even-in-friendly-albania-antony-blinken-is-hounded-by-israel-gaza-war/
The anatomy of a Kafkaesque drama: For the past nine months, Kathimerini has been drawing attention to the judicial odyssey of Fredi Beleri ...
ekathimerini.com/in-depth/1231945/the-anatomy-of-a-kafkaesque-drama/
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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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/
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/
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/
Albanian Officials Spent Thousands in Trump Hotel, US Report Shows: A report from the US Committee on Oversight and Accountability says the Albanian government ...
balkaninsight.com/2024/01/05/albanian-officials-spent-thousands-in-trump-hotel-us-report-shows/
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/
Albanian court rejects ethnic Greek mayor-elect’s request to exclude two of the three judges from his trial on grounds of bias.
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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.
politico.eu/article/sali-berisha-former-albania-pm-corruption-house-arrest/
Migration across the Mediterranean: High hurdles for Italy's deportation center in Albania
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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 ...
balkaninsight.com/2023/12/20/albanian-plan-to-use-ai-to-align-laws-with-eu-questioned/
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/
Migration cannot replace population growth: Albanian Prime Minister defends migration agreement with Italy. Elon Musk says migration cannot replace population ...
de.euronews.com/2023/12/16/migration-kann-bevolkerungswachstum-nicht-ersetzen
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/
Albania’s Latest Cabinet Changes Are Window-Dressing, Analyst Says: Prime Minister Rama's latest cabinet re-organisation, creating one new ...
balkaninsight.com/2024/01/12/albanias-latest-cabinet-changes-are-window-dressing-analyst-says/
Elon Musk to attend 'Atreju' political festival organised by Italy's PM Giorgia Meloni
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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 ...
balkaninsight.com/2023/12/29/albanian-court-dismisses-request-to-exclude-biased-judges-from-beleri-trial/
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 ...
bostonherald.com/2023/12/29/lucas-echoes-of-trump-in-albania/
Prolonged deadlock persists over Beleri’s detention: Greece is anticipating an initiative from the Albanian government of Prime Minister Edi Rama to address the ...
ekathimerini.com/news/1228119/prolonged-deadlock-persists-over-beleris-detention/
Albanian opposition protests budget in parliament with smoke bombs and fire: Albania's opposition Democratic Party members set off smoke bombs and lit a small ...
reuters.com/world/europe/albanian-opposition-protests-budget-parliament-with-smoke-bombs-fire-2023-11-20/
Letter to Rama: Beleri challenges interim appointment plans: Fredi Beleri, the incarcerated ethnic Greek elected mayor of the Albanian region of Himare ...
ekathimerini.com/news/1227889/letter-to-rama-beleri-challenges-interim-appointment-plans/
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 ...
ekathimerini.com/news/1227727/tentative-step-taken-in-beleri-case/
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/
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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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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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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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.
Europe migrant crisis: Italy to build migrant centres in Albania: The centres will be able to process more than 30,000 asylum seekers a year, Italy's PM has said ...
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Quick Glance: Italy to Build Migrant Centers in Albania
- The centers will open next spring and can process up to 36,000 people per year.
- The centers will be built at the port of Shengjin and the Gjader area in north-west Albania.
- Albania responds when Italy calls.
- Italy is in a difficult situation, which is evident to everyone.
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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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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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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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 ...
de.euronews.com/2023/11/07/lager-in-albanien-meloni-will-asylsuchende-ausser-landes-bringen
Albanian opposition smoke-bombs parliament: An Albanian opposition member of parliament (MP) has disrupted a plenary session of the parliament ...
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Albania to speed up EU accession using ChatGPT
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Albania: Opposition Asks Top Court to Halt Meloni’s Asylum Deal: Albania’s opposition challenged an asylum agreement announced last month between Prime Minister ...
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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 ...
ekathimerini.com/news/1226734/albanian-pm-defiant-over-beleri-issue/
Albanian prosecutors charge former Prime Minister Sali Berisha in corruption probe
reuters.com/world/europe/albanian-prosecutors-charge-former-pm-berisha-corruption-probe-2023-10-22/
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” ...
balkaninsight.com/2023/11/10/albanias-police-vetting-criticised-as-too-slow-too-opaque/
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 ...
euractiv.com/section/politics/news/rome-tirana-migration-deal-italian-left-wants-albanian-government-out-of-eu-socialists/
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 ...
balkaninsight.com/2023/10/23/justice-or-revenge-albanias-former-strongman-battles-corruption-charges/
The situation in the morning: does Scholz want to change horses?: For Chancellor Scholz, there is an important argument for an alliance with Friedrich Merz ...
spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/news-olaf-scholz-friedrich-merz-abschiebung-gruene-russland-westbalkan-a-8e041aca-9cb0-4557-904a-72399dced7ef
Albanian prosecutors charge former Prime Minister Sali Berisha in corruption probe
reuters.com/world/europe/albanian-prosecutors-charge-former-pm-berisha-corruption-probe-2023-10-22/
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 ...
balkaninsight.com/2023/10/05/nato-mission-in-kosovo-rejects-calls-to-police-tense-north/
Just a moment...: 403: 65154e2e6a590
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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 ...
de.euronews.com/my-europe/2023/10/05/eu-erweiterun-balkan-lander-haben-vom-langen-warten-die-nase-voll
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 ...
stern.de/politik/ausland/olaf-scholz--denkwuerdige-drei-minuten-im-un-sicherheitsrat-33845392.html
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.
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
Divisions over Kosovo-Serbia, enlargement, funding, ‘class’, laid bare at Berlin Process Summit
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Rama on EU enlargement promises: Decision makers will be gone, replaced next year
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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
Albanian PM steps up EU criticism, intensifies calls for action on Serbia
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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 ...
english.alarabiya.net/News/world/2023/09/20/-Stop-the-war-and-Zelenskyy-won-t-speak-UN-Security-Council-chair-tells-Russia
Albania sceptical of EU chief's enlargement push
euractiv.com/section/politics/news/albania-sceptical-of-eu-chiefs-enlargement-push/
Tirana hosts regional, EU economy ministers, PM states ‘EU needs Western Balkans’
euractiv.com/section/politics/news/tirana-hosts-regional-eu-economy-ministers-pm-states-eu-needs-western-balkans/
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 ...
zeit.de/gesellschaft/2023-08/albanien-italien-touristen-rechnung-restaurant-botschaft
Mediterranean: Boundless openness: Albania's prime minister receives his Italian colleague for a short vacation. And thus demonstrates self-confidence and ...
sueddeutsche.de/politik/italien-albanien-urlaub-annaeherung-meloni-rama-1.6145723
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 ...
balkaninsight.com/2023/08/15/albanias-rama-condemns-greek-intervention-in-vote-buying-arrest/
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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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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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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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 ...
balkaninsight.com/2023/07/31/timeline-the-crime-scandals-engulfing-albanias-ruling-party/
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