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EU Recommends Visa Removal
TIRANA, May 27 - The European Commission on Thursday said they had approved a proposal for Albania and Bosnia to get visa liberalization. Attention shifted on Thursday from the political crisis on Thursday as both EU and Albanian officials focused on the European Commission’s proposal for the visa liberalization for Albania.

The EU is ending visa requirements for Bosnia and Albania, two Balkan states where citizens had to wait for weeks to be allowed entry into the 27-nation bloc, likely by the end of the year.

EU's Home Affairs Commissioner Cecilia Malstrom said Thursday that the European Parliament and member states would now have to approve the proposal.

In 2009, the EU abolished visas for the citizens of Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia. The latest move would leave Kosovo, a country not recognized by all EU members, as the last Balkan region without visa-free travel to the EU. The EU had demanded that Bosnia and Albania make technical adjustments -- such as introducing biometric passports and strengthening their law enforcement capability --before granting them visa-free status.
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Solution – not a zero sum game
The opposition and the government have given the first signs of potentially moving towards a solution to the current crisis, ongoing and escalating since the last parliamentary elections in June 2009. Yesterday, the opposition put an end to the hunger strike of 22 of its members of parliament and 180 supporters. A hunger strike that went on for 19 days in front of the Prime Minister's Office.
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Take It, Or Leave, EU Tells Albanian Leaders
TIRANA, May 24 – Albania’s top political leaders were told they had no other choice but to take the deal placed in front of them by EU officials at a dinner in a fancy Strasbourg restaurant, sources present at the meeting told the Albanian media. It was EU’s last minute effort to resolve their political deadlock that might have led to some progress in Albania’s 9-month-old political conflict. A meeting in Strasbourg between representatives of the Albanian government and the opposition ended officially without any progress, but the Socialist Party has returned the parliament.
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Socialists Resume Full Participation In Parliament
TIRANA, May 25 - The opposition Socialist Party returned to the Albanian parliament Monday, ending a boycott over an alleged electoral fraud nearly a year ago. The Socialists had also ended their boycott at the end of February but last month they resumed it after the start of the hunger strike asking for the partial recount in places where they claim the vote was rigged by the governing Democratic Party of Prime Minister Sali Berisha last year. Gramoz Ruci of the Socialists said at the parliament that opening the ballot boxes and
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Govt continues monitoring markets for Eurobond issue
TIRANA, May 25 - The Finance Ministry says it watching the financial markets every day and will wait for the appropriate moment to issue the country’s ever Eurobond. “We don’t have any emergency to issue the Eurobond. We will issue it in the most opportune and favourable moment for the public finances and the public interest,” said Xhentil Demiri, the debt director at the Finance Ministry this week.
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Albanian Economy To Grow By 2.3% In 2010, IMF Says
TIRANA, May 21 - Albania’s economy will grow by 2.3% in 2010, Johan Mathisen economist of European Department for Regional Policies and Studies at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said in a press conference in Tirana. “Albania is among the few countries in the world that registered economic growth during 2009, while for this year the economic growth is forecast at 2.3%”, Mathisen said.
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