TIRANA, Jan. 22 – The Albanian Institute for International Studies, in cooperation with the European Policy Institute Skopje and the European Movement Serbia held on Wednesday a conference on the region’s European integration assessing whether the perspective is still realistic
TIRANA, Jan. 22 – The Monitoring Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has approached the Venice Commission to seek an opinion on the so-called “anti-libel package” proposed by the Albanian government which has been widely criticized,
TIRANA, Jan. 22 – Albania continues to be a hybrid democracy, says The Economist Intelligence Unit in the most recent report on democracy in the world, which analyzes 167 countries. Among them, Albania ranked 79th for 2019, three positions lower
TIRANA, Jan. 22 – Journalist Artan Hoxha published on Wednesday a video allegedly showing June 30 local elections’ Bulqiza Mayor Lefter Alla snorting cocaine publicly. The reporter said the footage was captured by security cameras and the moment was fixed
TIRANA, Jan. 22 – MONEYVAL, the Committee of Experts on the Evaluation of Anti-Money Laundering Measures and the Financing of Terrorism, published its follow-up report on Albania, stating that the country has made progress towards strengthening its framework to tackle
TIRANA, Jan. 22 – The Ministry of Diaspora in Albania recently proposed a draft law on the abolition of pension income tax for different categories of foreign citizens living in Albania. The draft law suggests the abolition of the pension
TIRANA, Jan. 22 – According to the Greek Asylum Service, 3053 Albanian nationals lodged asylum applications in 2019. Based on data provided by these authorities, Albanian citizens rank fifth in regard to the number of lodged applications in Greece after
TIRANA, Jan. 21 – The Greek Ministry of Infrastructure’s revision of the Ionian highway project which extends to the Kakavia border checkpoint, has sparked heated debate in the northern Greek region of Ioannina, bordered by Albania. Municipalities in the northern
TIRANA, Jan. 21 – On Monday, the Ministry of Infrastructure and Energy announced the opening of the international auction for the construction of a photovoltaic power park with a capacity of 140 megawatts in Albania. The park will be built
TIRANA, Jan. 20 – The Albanian parliament elected on Monday evening the High Justice Inspector, thus paving the way for the formation of another crucial new institution in the numbers of new institutions of the system envisioned by the Justice
