The Guardia di Finanza of Sicily has arrested on October 16th 2017, a group of 11 persons from Albania and Italy involved in a criminal organization specialized in the drug trafficking between the two countries. The group was headed by ...
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“There is no patience fatigue amongst Albanians regarding the EU enlargment process. Albanians are exasperated by a captured government that protects criminal networks and drug lords who have taken over the national economy and state authorities. This is why Albanians ...
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The Chair of the Albanian Parliamentary European Integration Committee Mr. Genc Pollo, met with the General Director for Enlargement at the European Commission, Mr. Christian Danielsson on October 9th 2017 in Tirana. By expressing Albania’s thankfulness for the given support ...
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Under a new draft law, Albania will officially recognize nine national minorities, adding the Bosniak, Egyptian and Bulgarian minorities for the first time. The latter was added consensually to the initial bill in the parliamentary Legal Affairs Committee. The draft ...
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(Picture : 4 tons of cannabis seized by Italian police on Sep. 6th, 2017 worth 20 million euros) The U.S. ambassador to Albania, Donald Lu recently said that fighting organized crime and corruption is the biggest and most difficult challenge ...
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The electoral observers’ report of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly has noted serious deteriorations of the election standards in Albania during the last legislative elections held on June 25th 2017. These findings are in line with the overall assessment ...
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The Albanian public opinion has been widely troubled by the recent coming-back appearance of Enver Hoxha’s portraits and of communist symbols during numerous public memorial activities. Albania is today the sole former communist European country where two former high-level communist ...
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By Andi Bushati The former President of the Republic, Mr. Bujar Nishani, suggested to declassify the minutes of a National Security Council meeting which, according to him, would reveal many facts on the collusion of high rank police chiefs and ...
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