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Albania: ucciso leader democristiano
TIRANA, 18 GIU – Un dirigente del partito democristiano albanese (Pdk), Aleks Keka, e’ rimasto ucciso nell’esplosione della sua auto, nel nord del paese. ”Keka – ha detto il segretario generale del Pdk, Nard Ndoka – aveva incontrato alcune persone nel bar centrale della cittadina di Malesia Madhe, a pochi chilometri da Scutari, e stava [...]
Full StoryThree Balkan States Eye Visa-Free Travel
European Commission Vice-President Jacques Barrot confirmed the possibility that the EU might decide this year to grant a visa-free regime to three Western Balkans countries. Barrot reported to interior ministers in Luxembourg on the European Commission’s recent report on the advancement of each country in the region towards visa liberalisation. After the meeting, Barrot stated [...]
Full StoryAlbania Arrests Illegal Dumping Suspects
Three people have been arrested in the southern Albanian town of Vlora on suspicion of dumping large quantities of oil residue in the Adriatic Sea. According to local media reports early on Wednesday, large amounts of oil were pumped from tankers in a coastal area south of the town of Vlora, known as Soda’s Forest. [...]
Full StoryAlbania: Election at final stage
Four coalitions will stand in the elections that will be monitored by at least 2,500 local observers and more than 400 international ones.Throughout the day TV news always begins with the electoral campaign gripping Albania as tension has rocked the headquarters of the political parties gearing up for the parliamentary elections to be held on [...]
Full StoryTaking the Pulse: Eastern Europe
Our theme this week on the BBC World Service is “Taking the Pulse” of the wider global economy and looking at how efforts to tackle the downturn are affecting you. Last year we followed four families across Eastern Europe to see how rising food prices had changed their daily lives. Now a year on, Steven [...]
Full StoryAlbanian investigators uncover owners of company running Gerdec ammunition depot
TIRANA, Albania — An ongoing investigation into last year’s deadly ammunition blasts in Gerdec has revealed the name of the company that was running the dismantling depot, investigators said on Tuesday (April 14th). Running Trans Digging Construction were businessman Mihal Delijorgji, the main suspect in the Gerdec case, and Fahri Balliu, a close aide to [...]
Full StoryElection monitoring will cost Albania 1.5m euros
TIRANA, Albania — Monitoring the June 28th parliamentary elections will cost Albania’s Central Election Commission (CEC) 1.5m euros, media reported on Tuesday (April 14th). The CEC has selected the company R&T to oversee installation of monitoring cameras in all 385 vote-counting stations across the country. On Tuesday, the CEC demonstrated how to register each ballot [...]
Full StoryAlbanian Chamber of Commerce works on an economic recovery plan
The Albanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry plans to bring in a sort of wide-ranging “tax amnesty” to boost the country’s sagging economy and thereby escape the crisis. According to the Italian Institute for Foreign Trade (Ice) offices in Tirana, the Albanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry plans to bring in a sort of wide-ranging [...]
Full StoryEVN, Statraft sign 950m euros Albania power deal
Austria’s EVN utility and Norway’s Statkraft will invest 950 million euros ($1.37 billion) to build three hydroelectric power stations in eastern Albania in what they said was currently Europe’s biggest power project. “The unique size of the complexity of the Devoll hydropower project as the biggest ever investment in Albania, and currently the biggest Hydro [...]
Full StoryIn Albania coordinamento ps Italia
In Albania coordinamento ps Italia Capo Polizia, sara’ epicentro del contrasto a criminalita’ L’Albania, annuncia Manganelli, ‘sara’ l’epicentro per le strategie europee di contrasto alla criminalita’ organizzata’. L’ufficio della polizia italiana in Albania, spiega, diventera’ il centro di coordinamento di tutti gli uffici della polizia italiana e delle polizie europee presenti nei paesi dei Balcani [...]
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