Month: April 2018

Berlin, Apr 27 (Tirana Echo) – Germany will decide on Albania’s opening of membership talks with the European Union only after consultations with other EU members, Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel has told Albanian Prime Minister […]

Denying Albania the prospect of one day becoming a European Union member could fuel Muslim radicalisation in the Balkan country, endangering regional stability, its prime minister Edi Rama said – according to Euractiv. Rama, in […]

Tirana, Albania, Apr 24 (Tirana Echo) – The full integration Albania and the whole Balkan region into the European Union is in the very best European interest – Donald Tusk the President of the European […]

Tirana, Albania, Apr 23 (Tirana Echo) – Belgian prime minister Charles Michel told his Albanian counterpart Edi Rama in Tirana today that his country will decide in June on EU accession talks with the small […]

Tirana, Albania , Apr 23 (Tirana Echo) – The shutting down of Gulf Oil gas stations across the country which ran a fraud scheme in its last days has exposed links to Georgian oligarchs who […]

Tirana, Albania, Apr 23 (Tirana Echo) – Albania suffers from a series abuse of its human rights including intimidation of journalists and pervasive corruption spread across government, says the latest US Report on Human Rights […]

Tirana, Albania (Tirana Echo) – A massive fire has burned down a recycling facility in the Kashar area west of Albania’s capital Tirana as firemen battle with black smoke and flames for more than two […]

Tirana, Albania (Tirana Echo) – EU Foreign Policy Chief Federica Mogherini said today in Tirana that Albania is ready to open negotiations on its EU membership bid, providing it maintains and deepens the crucial reforms […]

Tirana, Albania (Tirana Echo) – Albania’s Prime Minister Edi Rama has said that EU membership talks mean a new phase of making corrupt politicians, judges and prosecutors pay for what they have done in the […]