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Albania MPs to Vote on 'Decriminalising Politics'
The Albanian parliament will vote in December on whether to adopt a new law excluding people with criminal convictions from holding public office.
The proposed law, referred to as the 'decriminalisation law', will permanently ban people who have been convicted of serious offences, including murder, rape and genocide, from appointment or election to state institutions.
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Greek FM in Kosovo, Albania, Bosnia this week
With Grexit now slowly receding in the rear view mirror, Greece’s radical leftist government is returning to more normal international contacts, as Greek FM Nikos Kotzias begins a tour of Kosovo, Albania and Bosnia-Herzegovina this week.
On Tuesday, Kotzias will head to Pristina, where he will be received by Kosovo PM Isa Mustafa and his counterpart Hashim Thaci.
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Vucic, Meta on cooperation, direct Belgrade-Tirana flights
Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic met with Albanian Parliament Speaker Ilir Meta in Tirana Wednesday to discuss relations between the two countries.
They also spoke about "ways to improve economic cooperation, including establishing direct flights between Belgrade and Tirana," Tanjug reported.
Greece to back NATO-led campaign against ISIS, Kammenos says
Greece will join the United States and other NATO members in efforts to defeat militants of Islamic State (ISIS), an issue which is expected to be discussed in the summit of the transatlantic alliance in Brussels next month, Defense Minister Panos Kammenos said on Friday.
Albanian parliament vice-speaker refers to … Chams — Irredentism making a comeback?
“Albanians of .. Cameria” was the latest irredentist “pipedream” heard in the increasingly tense western Balkans this week, uttered by none other than an Albanian lawmaker who assumed a vice-speaker’s position in that country’s Parliament.
The phrase belongs to one Shpëtim Idrizi, listed as the president of the small nationalist Party for Justice, Integration and Unity.
Albanian MP blasts Erdo?an's call for struggle against Gülenists
Ben Blushi, an Albanian lawmaker of the ruling Socialist Party (PS), has slammed Recep Tayyip Erdo?an?s call for the country to target followers of Fethullah Gülen, which the Turkish president made during his recent visit to the Balkan country.
Albania Online Media Bill Raises Censorship Fears
A bill introduced into Albania's parliament by the opposition MP and former minister Majlinda Bregu is expected to stir a stiff debate on freedom of expression in the country.
The draft law aims to put an end to derogatory and offensive comments by users on online portals, holding their administrators accountable for any infringement of the law.
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Association to file charges against KLA leaders
BELGRADE - The Association of Families of the Kidnapped and Murdered in Kosovo and Metohija (KiM) said Friday that it will press charges before the domestic and international courts against the persons responsible for the crimes against Serbs and non-Albanians in KiM before and after 1999.
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Serbian parliament speaker on visit to Albania
BELGRADE/TIRANA - Serbian Parliament Speaker Maja Gojkovic is on a two-day visit to Albania as from Tuesday, where she will meet with Albanian President Bujar Nishani, Parliament Speaker Ilir Meta and Prime Minister Edi Rama.
This is the first visit by a parliament speaker in the history of relations between the two countries, the Serbian parliament said in a release.
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Albania MP Apologizes For Assaulting Colleague
At his trial on Monday in the Albanian Supreme Court, Socialist MP Arben Ndoka apologized for having attacked a fellow MP, maintaining that such actions have occurred in other parliaments.
"I want to apologize to the public although such incidents have happened in parliaments all over Europe and in the Albanian parliament in the past," Ndoka told reporters outside the court.
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