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Extremists in Albania attack the Greek National Minority of the country!
After the reports from the villages of Dropoli in Northern Epirus, Southern Albania, of numerous robberies exclusively on Greek villages and lootings of Greek families’ houses, the phenomenon is spreading to all Greek inhabited areas taking really dangerous dimensions.
Rama Upholds Kosovo's Sovereignty on Pristina Visit
Albania's Prime Minister used an official visit to Kosovo on Thursday to stress the deep solidarity between the two countries at a time of serious tension between Kosovo and Serbia and following tough talks in Brussels between the two sides.
Draft law on Prespes transboundary park to be tabled Friday
A draft law tabled in the Greek Parliament Thursday foresees the establishment of a transboundary protected area in the Prespes lake district which Greece shares with Balkan neighbors Albania and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM).
Tirana and Skopje ratified the trilateral agreement a decade ago.
Albanian prosecutor-general blasts U.S. ambassador
According to Albania's prosecutor-general, Adriatik Llalla, U.S. Ambassador in Tirana Donald Lu is guilty of "undiplomatic attacks and blackmail."
The ambassador previously accused him of hampering the judicial reform that is essential before talks can start on EU membership, the AP reported on Thursday.
US Embassy, Albanian Prosecutor Row Over Judicial Reform
As Albania starts an important process of vetting judges and prosecutors and sets up new justice institutions, the US ambassador to Tirana, Donal Lu, and the General Prosecutor, Adriatik Llalla, have exchanged heated accusations about judicial reform.
EU Parliament 'Calls on Albania to Recognize Bulgarian Minority'
The European Parliament is calling for the first time on Albania to recognize the Bulgarian community living in the country as a minority, EPP/GERB MEP Andrey Kovatchev has said.
Greek products and Greek quality at the ISM exhibition in Cologne
The Greek presence in the ISM food and beverages exhibition in Cologne, Germany was vivid with 30 companies represented there. Companies like ‘Tsakiris’ snacks with original ideas such as the vintage packaging making them stick out from the competition, show us that regardless of the crisis the Greek business world is good in finding the way out of any bad situation.
TAP gas pipeline can gauge customer interest
The Trans-Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) that will take gas from Azerbaijan to Europe is in a position to offer capacity on the line via so-called "open seasons" to gauge interest among potential customers, senior TAP executives said on Wednesday.
Freedom House Highlights Threats to Balkan Democracies
US-based watchdog Freedom House's annual 'Freedom in the World' report, published on Thursday, identified Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania and Serbia as free countries, but Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia and Montenegro as only 'partly free'.
Trans Adriatic Pipeline to cost 4.5 billion euros: Project chief
The Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP), which aims to pump Azeri gas to Europe by 2020, will cost 4.5 billion euros in total, the project chief has stated.
Soldiers sentenced over double-headed eagle symbol
The seven army recruits who posted a photo of themselves making the symbol of a double-headed eagle with their hands last week have been sentenced to 60 days in a military prison, the Hellenic Army General Staff said on Monday.
The symbol appears on Albania's national flag.
Albanian Minister Says Attacking Corruption Got Him Fired
Albania's Minister of Justice, Ylli Manjani - from the junior coalition party, the Socialist Movement for Integration, LSI - has accused Prime Minister Edi Rama of sacking him for speaking out against corruption.
Albanians "spread wings" in Greek army
BELGRADE - After the publication of a photograph of seven recruits of the Greek army of Albanian origin, who symbolized the two-headed eagle with spread wings using their hands - symbol which many connect with "Greater Albania", the thing got politicized, and the opposition, of course, insists on every possible type of responsibility of the security system in the army.
Albania Honours Families That Sheltered Jews From Holocaust
Albania held a series of activities on Friday to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day and commemorate the bravery of Albanians in fully protecting their Jewish community from Nazi persecution during World War II.
Albanians take pride in the fact that this overwhelmingly Muslim nation did not hesitate to shelter Jewish families from the Nazis in defiance of Adolf Hitler's directives.
Albanian: Extremists threaten the Greek minority in Albania while the Rama turns a blind eye
A wave of targeted break-ins in houses of members Greeks minority of Albania has struck once again with many seeing a pattern. According a letter by the Greek mayor of Dropolis, this wave of break-ins, the stealing of Greek flags in villages inhabited exclusively by Greeks the destruction of road signs written in Greek are aiming in terrorizing the local native Greek minority.