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Elections in Albania

11.May 2025. S.Ć.

Polls: Edi Rama on the threshold of victory

Polling stations for parliamentary elections are closed in Albania. The first polls say that Eddie Rama's party could win more than 50 percent

Albanija

11.May 2025. Rachel Shehu (DW)

Elections in Albania: Edi Rama hopes for a fourth term

Parliamentary elections are being held in Albania on Sunday (May 11). The opposition will try to stop Prime Minister Eddie Rama in his bid for a historic fourth term. The result could determine the pace of EU accession, but also citizens' confidence in democracy

Albanija

11.April 2025. Vilma Filjaj-Balvora/DW

Forty years since the death of Enver Hoxha: A million bunkers and death to the Bible

Exactly 40 years have passed since the death of Enver Hoxha, the Stalinist dictator from Albania. During his reign, he turned Albania into one of the most isolated areas in the world. Some consequences are felt even today

Regional security

20.march 2025 KS

Military cooperation between Croatia, Albania and Kosovo: Warning to Belgrade

Croatia, Albania and Kosovo signed a memorandum on military cooperation, which provoked a sharp reaction from Serbia

Illegal migration

23.February 2025. Elona Elezi / DW

Reception centers completely empty: Italy and Albania without solutions for migrants

The planned transfer of migrants from Italy to Albania collapsed after legal obstacles, and the centers built with Italian money remained unused. Critics claim that the project cost one billion euros, and the opposition demands its cancellation

Social media

02.January 2025 MS

Banning TikTok in Albania: Will it be the case in the US?

After a boy died due to an argument on TikTok in Albania, the authorities held about 1.300 meetings with teachers and parents and decided to ban the social network in 2025. Is this decision a good one and what will happen to TikTok in the US

Albanija

24.December 2024 MJ

"Hard winter for dictators": Albanian opposition demands transitional government and resignation of Edi Rama

The Albanian opposition, led by the Democratic Party and its president Salji Berisha, protested again in Tirana demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Edi Rama. There were also references to student protests in Serbia

KiM

28.November 2024 B. B.

For the first time, the Day of the Albanian Flag is celebrated in Serbian municipalities

Albanian Flag Day was also celebrated last year in the municipality of Zvečan, i.e. in the village of Boljetin, but not with a formal meeting. On the eve of this year's commemoration, Albanian flags were placed along the Pristina-Raška main road alongside Kosovo flags

A political affair

21.October 2024 IN THE

Albanian police arrested former president Iljir Meta for corruption

Former Deputy President of Albania Iljir Meta was arrested while driving to a press conference. He is suspected of money laundering while holding key political positions

Migrant crisis

19.October 2024 Zoran Arbutina (DW)

Meloni defeated in court: Migrants from Albania return to Italy

The court does not allow the experiment of Djordje Meloni, in which she tried to place twelve men from Egypt and Bangladesh in a reception camp in Albania

Albanija

08.October 2024 IN THE

Ten people were injured in the clash between police and protesters in Tirana

Ten people were injured in violent demonstrations held in the capital of Albania against the Government of Prime Minister Edi Rama. Demonstrators demand Rama's resignation and the establishment of an interim technocrat government that will manage current affairs until parliamentary elections already scheduled for next year.

Region

28.September 2024 S.Ć.

For and against the Bektash state in Albania announced by Edi Rama

Edi Rama announced the establishment of a Bektash monastery in Tirana like the Vatican in Rome, which, he says, would be a center of moderation, tolerance and peaceful coexistence. Mufti Jusufspahić believes that it is a business movement and an attempt to consolidate Albanians

Albanija

25.September 2024 Anamari Repić

Europe, how far are you?

The fight against organized crime focuses on uncovering illegal marijuana plantations, cocaine trafficking, money laundering and human trafficking, but results remain meager. Although Albania has established a Special Prosecutor's Office, the EU is demanding more action in the fight against narcotics and the confiscation of assets linked to organized crime. Political tensions between the ruling party and the opposition are also worrisome because they often disrupt the work of parliament

A twisted trend

21.September 2024 IN THE

A lion in the yard, to be dangerous

A new fashion has taken hold among mobsters and influencers in Albania and Kosovo - get a lion to be cool and dangerous

Politics and organized crime

17.September 2024 JH

"Spiegel": Albania as Eddie Rama's private narco-state

The West is courting Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama, while his opponents accuse him of turning Albania into a drug state, corrupt to the core, writes the German weekly "Spiegel".

Albania-Montenegro

12.August 2024 IN THE

Ada Bojana: Feces from Albania fill the miraculous river that flows into the Adriatic

Montenegrin fishermen claim that faeces are discharged into the Bojana River twice a day from the well-known Albanian resort of Velipolje. Earlier, they say, they were hiding, but now they are doing it openly

Literature

01.July 2024 B. B.

Albanian writer Ismail Kadare passed away

Albanian writer Ismail Kadare died on Monday at the age of 88

Politics instead of sports

17.June 2024 BB/Radio Freedom Europe

The Football Association of Albania faces a fine due to fan incidents in Germany

Albanian fans threw objects into the field, used pyrotechnics, displayed flags that according to the rules are not allowed to appear at football matches, and one of them even ran into the field

Albanija

06.June 2024 IM / Tanjug

Protest in front of the parliament in Tirana, demonstrators demand the resignation of Edi Rama

The protest was called after former deputy prime minister Arben Ahmetaj, who was on the run, said he saw a large number of people allegedly linked to crime entering Prime Minister Edi Rama's office.

Agreement between Pristina and Tirana

02.May 2024. KoSSev

Border between Kosovo and Albania: No checking of passports and identity cards

On Wednesday, the agreement between Kosovo and Albania on crossing the border without checking passports and personal documents entered into force. The Minister of Internal Affairs of Albania, Taulant Balja, said that the signing of the new protocol will facilitate border crossing procedures

Investment of Trump's son-in-law

02.April 2024. IM (DW)

In addition to the General Staff, Kushner also invests in Albania - not everyone is enthusiastic

The announcement by Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, that he wants to invest in real estate in Belgrade and Albania, caused many doubts in Serbia. What are the reactions from Tirana?

The culture of memory

10.January 2024 Robert Shepherd

A tale of two stadiums

Stadio della Vittoria and Stadio San Nicola in Bari in the spring and summer of 1991 became part of the history of two Balkan nations - Albanians and Serbs

Europe

10.November 2023 BG

Italy opens a center for migrants in Albania: A precedent or an example for the future?

The reception center will be opened at a former military location near the town of Đadera in northwestern Albania, a few kilometers from the Adriatic coast. Asylum requests will be decided according to Italian law

Chronicle

16.August 2023 M.S

Albania: Kurti's deputy caught with over 1000 ecstasy pills

Self-determination MP Besnik Mujeci was arrested in Albania on suspicion of smuggling and selling narcotics. He was previously under police surveillance for three months

On the spot: Albania

19.July 2023 Philippe Bertenschan

Crossroads of human trafficking

Labor is recruited in the poorest and most uninhabited areas - for sowing, care during growth, harvesting, drying and packaging of goods before they are exported to Montenegro, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Greece and Italy. Albanian woman, as the neighboring Slavs call it, is a high-quality plant. In 2016, three years after Prime Minister Edi Rama came to power, Albania rose to seventh place in the world for cannabis production, with a total value estimated at 2,6 percent of GDP, compared to 0,07 to 0,19, XNUMX percent in countries such as France, Germany, Italy or the United Kingdom

Kosovo

13.June 2023 BG

Edi Rama: Is Albania turning its back on Kurti?

The meeting of the governments of Albania and Kosovo has been cancelled. The Albanian Prime Minister explained that the meeting is not possible because Kosovo is moving towards sanctions

Region

02.April 2023. Sofia Popović

New regional initiative: Four times one hundred percent minus two

The four states of the region, which aligned their foreign policy 100% with the European Union, created an informal platform. The necessity of full membership in the EU united Montenegro, North Macedonia, Albania and Kosovo. There is no place for Serbia and Bosnia in such a club