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Civil society organisations in Kosovo have expressed concern that their future sustainability might be affected by Brussels' decision to temporarily suspend funds provided under the European Commission's Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance, IPA until Pristina complies with the EU's prescriptions for restoring stability in the country's Serb-majority north.

This time, the "dead" thing is an oil refinery in the town of Ballshi, the seat of the southern Albanian region of Mallakastra.

Shijaku bought the refinery for scrap earlier this year with a loan of nine million euros from its owner, Credins Bank. Once it's picked apart, a solar park will rise in its place by the end of 2023, he says.

I don't know whether that stands true for all the history of the world, but I know that 20th-century Europe's often painful history can be observed through the lens of borders.

The International Commission on Missing Persons, ICMP said in a report published on Tuesday that Albanian prosecutors are still not issuing orders to exhume suspected mass grave sites where people who went missing during the Communist era could be buried.

The Albanian government agreed with the ICMP to start the search in 2018, after eight years of negotiations.

The first exhibition by Enver Hoxha, a medical doctor, plastic surgeon and amateur photographer, which is showing at the National Museum of Kosovo in Pristina until Sunday, documents the journeys of several groups of fleeing refugees across Kosovo from March to June 1999.

The head of Albania's main centre-right opposition Democratic Party, Lulzim Basha, on Monday said his party would soon submit a draft law seeking to ban the display of communist symbols in public.

The Democrats' leader said his party was seeking help from German partner parties in order to follow the same model that Germany has, in banning Nazi symbols.

An Albanian court has sentenced the grandson of former communist dictator Enver Hoxha to ten years in jail for smuggling cocaine, a statement said on Wednesday.

Ermal Hoxha is part of a nine-member group, which includes two Columbians, whose were served prison terms from 10 to 13 years on Tuesday, a Tirana court said.

Albania's government has made public the files of the sinister Directorate of State Security Sigurimi from the time ofthe communist dictator Enver Hoxha, reported BGNES.

There are millions of documents collected in tens of thousands of files of people persecuted by the regime.

During the rule of Hoxha, over 100,000 people were arrested and thrown into camps.

A survey on Albanians' perceptions and understanding of the communist era conducted by an independent think tank on behalf of the OSCE office in Tirana has upset representatives of victims of the old regime and prompted calls for the state to do more to condemn the crimes of the communist past.

Nexhmije Hoxha, 95-year-old widow of Albania's late communist dictator Enver Hoxha, on Monday made her an on-air farewell to Albanians, declaring that this would be her last recorded talk.