Albania

The head of the EU delegation in Albania, Ettore Sequi, said on Wednesday that Albania needs to commit to reforms in order to move ahead in its EU integration bid. “For Albania to become an EU member, it

European Commission (EC) President Jose Manuel Barroso will visit Albania soon after the May 8th local elections to stress the importance of the process. The visit was announced by

The European Parliament (EP) is expected to send a group of observers to monitor the May 8th local elections, media reported on Sunday (April 24th). The observers will come as an independent group to join other international teams monitoring the process. The presence of observers was requested by Prime Minister …

The OSCE is urging Albania to limit the immunity of public officials by changing laws and the constitution. The organisation’s Ambassador to Tirana, Eugen Wollfarth, said on Tuesday (April 19th) that the “volunteer

Serbia’s Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic has sent a proposal for an investigation into allegations of organ trafficking in Kosovo and Albania to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. Jeremic sent the letter to Ban on Tuesday afternoon, after he discussed the issue with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov, who was in …

Stefano Sannino, the EU’s deputy director-general for external relations, began a two-day visit to Tirana on Wednesday (April 13th) to discuss the country’s European integration progress. Sannino participated in a meeting

A delegation of the Council of Europe (CoE) has offered support to the Albanian Central Election Commission (CEC) to help ensure required standards are met during the May 8th local elections. Led by Hana Richtermocova, the

The OSCE hopes that Albania will hold free and fair local elections on May 8th, the mission’s head Eugen Wollfarth said on Monday (April 11th) in an interview with Top Channel TV. The OSCE’s Office for Democratic

The OSCE called on political parties to recognise the results of the upcoming May 8th local elections as an important aspect of democracy. Head of the mission in Albania Eugen Wollfarth told an experts’ roundtable on

Top EU official Stefan Fule warned Albania’s feuding political parties on Wednesday that failure to resolve the nearly two-year long political crisis is stopping the country’s EU progress dead in its tracks. “If a solution is not found the [European] Commission will find it very hard to provide a positive …