NAPOKON …. SË FUNDI… КОНЕЧНО

NAPOKON …. SË FUNDI… КОНЕЧНО

By Marko Čadež As of 1 March this year, citizens of Serbia, Albania and North Macedonia will FINALLY be able to live and work in any of the three countries as in their own. In boring bureaucratic words “The Agreement

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Why Albania sees Kosovo as an Autonomous Province of hers

Why Albania sees Kosovo as an Autonomous Province of hers

The article below was first published on Feb. 26, 2020 in the Tirana Observatory. Many of the issues affecting the Albania-Kosovo relationship remain the same since then, albeit new issues have risen to add fuel to previous disagreements. It is

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Op/Ed: The Future of Europe – Assuming Responsibility with Courage

Op/Ed: The Future of Europe – Assuming Responsibility with Courage

By Karl von Habsburg In mid-December last year, a friend from Ukraine paid a visit to Vienna. Ihor Zhaloba, a historian from Chernivtsi, a university professor, a member of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, co-chairman of the Austrian-Ukrainian Historical Commission,

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Op/Ed: Is Albania slipping into a one-party system?

Op/Ed: Is Albania slipping into a one-party system?

The head of Albania’s opposition, Sali Berisha(1), Albania’s former President and a former two-term Prime Minister, was arrested on Saturday, Dec. 30, 2023. Mr. Berisha’s arrest follows a two-year period of dramatic developments for the Democratic Party, which has been

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Albania risks losing another 13% of its residents to emigration in the next few years, AIIS report warns

Albania risks losing another 13% of its residents to emigration in the next few years, AIIS report warns

TIRANA, Nov. 30, 2023 – About 13 percent of Albania’s resident working-age population is likely going to leave the country in the next few years unless immediate measures are taken to increase local incomes and lower the cost of living,

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Op/Ed: The dilemma over the criticism of the Greek veto

Op/Ed: The dilemma over the criticism of the Greek veto

By GENC POLLO Ten days ago, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, standing on the side of visiting Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, told the media that he was against the bilateralization of the European Union enlargement process.  The chancellor was apparently

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Op/Ed: Is the controversial Albania-Italy deal an anti-migration publicity stunt?

Op/Ed: Is the controversial Albania-Italy deal an anti-migration publicity stunt?

By ANDI BALLA  The recent Albania-Italy bilateral deal aimed at processing irregular migrants and refugees rescued in the Mediterranean in camps within Albanian territory under Italian extraterritorial jurisdiction has sparked intense debate in both countries and beyond.  However, a closer

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Op/Ed: EU’s ASM draft: The good, the bad and the unwritten

Op/Ed: EU’s ASM draft: The good, the bad and the unwritten

By Daniel Serwer, Nov. 15, 2023 The EU-proposed draft of the statute for the Association of Serb-majority Municipalities in Kosovo is now widely available. Is it good, or is it bad? The answer of course is complicated and depends not only

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Council of Albanian Ambassadors on the agreement between Albania and Italy for refugees.

Council of Albanian Ambassadors on the agreement between Albania and Italy for refugees.

The Council of Albanian Ambassadors has issued the following statement in Tirana on Nov. 15, 2023: The Council of Albanian Ambassadors assesses that the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Italy and Albania for the landing and processing of asylum requests of

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Op/Ed: A risky charade: Albanian PM’s deal with Italy to host EU’s irregular migrants is wrong and impractical

Op/Ed: A risky charade: Albanian PM’s deal with Italy to host EU’s irregular migrants is wrong and impractical

Eureka! Finally, a solution has been found for the issue of irregular migration to Europe, which has been a fundamental problem not only for the European Union’s two large southern members, Italy and Spain, but for the EU as whole.

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