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Albania to Probe World Bank-Financed Plant
A spokesperson for Albania's General Prosecutor's office has told BIRN that prosecutors will review all the procedures over the award of a concession to an Austrian company to build a controversial hydro-power plant.
"All the people that might have knowledge of the project will be questioned as part of the investigation," Albi Serani said.
Vucic: We welcome EU response to Rama's statement
KRUPANJ - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic qualified as positive on Wednesday the fact that the EU reacted to the statement by Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama concerning the possibility of unification of Kosovo and Albania.
It is high time redrawing of borders in the Balkans stopped, Prime Minister Vucic said.
Djuric: Rama's statement attempt to blackmail EU
BELGRADE - Director of the Serbian government's Office for Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) Marko Djuric has said that Tuesday's statement by Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama about a unification of Albania and Kosovo is an attempt to blackmail the European Union, apart from being a blunt and brutal threat to stability and peace in the region.
Albania, Kosovo Call for Greater EU Integration, Warn of Unification
Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama warned the EU that his country could unify with Kosovo "in the classic way" in case the Union did not intensify the integration of Pristina.
Rama made this statement during a joint interview with Kosovo's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Hashim Thaci on Tuesday, B92 reports.
Serbian PM Vows to Stop Albanians Uniting
Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic has gone on Twitter to declare that Serbia will never let Albania and Kosovo unify in one state.
His tweet on Tuesday came after Serbian media reports claimed that Edi Rama of Albania had said that if the EU failed to allow the two states to unite within a borderless Europe, they would unify in "the classical way".
Albanian PM's statement is "attack on peace"
Albanian PM's statement is "attack on peace"
BELGRADE -- Serbian Government Office for Kosovo and Metohija Director Marko Djuric says Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama's latest statement represent "an attack on peace."
Rama warned the EU that unless Albania and Kosovo unify through membership in that organization, they would do so "in the classic way."
Detained Albanian MP's Brother Absolved of Murder
Forty-one-year-old Lamaj was killed by gunfire from an AK-47 assault rifle after parking his car outside his apartment in the Vasil Shanto neighbourhood of Tirana.
Frroku, a businessman with a history of conflicts with Lamaj, was arrested in Thessaloniki, Greece, one day later and extradited to Albania.