Albania

Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha said that the questionnaire Brussels sent to Albania before it can be granted visa liberalisation has been completed. Experts from Brussels will visit Tirana in the coming weeks to evaluate the process.

Albanian Foreign Minister Ilir Meta said  that defining maritime borders with Greece is a priority for Albania. Last week, the Constitutional Court in Tirana decided that an agreement on the border delineation violates the constitution and must be renegotiated. The opposition Socialist Party (SP) asked the court to for the …

TIRANA-SP leader, Edi Rama declared today is again ready for dialogue, but has acknowledged that the other party has no firm commitment, nor dialogue, nor to solve the crisis. During an interview in “Top Channel” Rama once again repeated the investigation with the foundation of the election, through the opening …

70.5% of Kosovo citizens think the declaration of the independence is a good decision while 63.8% of Serbs think they will never recognize Kosovo’s independence.  9.7% of the Serbs think Serbia will recognize Kosovo but it will not happen in the next five years.

The Council of Europe adopted a Resolution late Thursday, urging the Albanian government and the opposition to put an end to the current political crisis. The 10-paragraph Resolution, adopted late Thursday, described the political situation in Albania as political crisis, and urges both the authorities and the opposition parties to …

Greek Alternative Foreign Minister Dimitris Droutsas said Athens was displeased with the annulment of a territorial agreement which delineates the continental shelf between Albania and Greece in the Ionian Sea. The agreement was annulled on Wednesday by Albania’s constitutional court, which argued that it had serious legal flaws. “It is …

Albania’s constitutional court annulled on Tuesday a territorial agreement signed with Greece which delineates the continental shelf between the two countries in the Ionian Sea, arguing that it had serious legal flaws. “In the agreement there are procedural and substantive infractions of the [Albanian] constitution and of the the 1982 …

Albania’s Foreign Minister Ilir Meta has announced that the country will soon open an embassy in Sarajevo, the latest sign that Tirana aims to take a larger regional role, following its entry into NATO. “Taking into account Albania’s increasing role in the Western Balkans, our government has decided to soon …

The Swedish government announced Thursday, January 21, it would open 10 new embassies, including in the Republic of Moldova, to strengthen Sweden’s presence in the countries which benefit from Swedish aid programs. Besides Moldova, Swedish embassies will open in Albania, Kosovo, Georgia and a number of African countries. At the …

FM Vuk Jeremić today in Belgrade addressed a recently announced plan of “integration” of northern, Serb parts of Kosovo into Priština’s institutions. Speaking after his meeting with Czech Deputy PM Jan Kohout, Jeremić said this was a provocation coming from the “illegal International Civilian Office (ICO) and the illegal institutions …