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The Hague, Netherlands | 17 Apr 2019 (Tirana Echo)  – The Dutch Parliament has upset Albania’s authorities, by approving a controversial motion to temporarily cancel visa-free traveling for Albanian citizens in the Schengen Zone. The […]

Tirana, Albania | 04 Apr 2019 (Tirana Echo) – The United States says that justice reform in Albania is moving forward, and won’t be stopped, as two crucial anti-corruption structures are expected to be erected […]

Berlin, Germany | 02 Apr 2019 (Tirana Echo) – Germany’s ruling CDU/CSU conservative coalition will decide on EU membership talks with Albania only after the European Commission publishes its progress report later this spring, despite […]

Tirana, Albania | 01 Apr 2019 (Tirana Echo) – Albania’s Foreign Ministry has called on all honorary consuls in the country to give up their diplomatic CD number plates as it decides to call off […]

Tirana, 27 March 2019 – (Special Reporting by Mother Jones) – Albanian prosecutors on Monday questioned the head of the country’s main conservative party regarding more than $600,000 in payments that the party reportedly made […]

Tirana, Albania | 25 March 2019 (Tirana Echo) – One of the candidates taking up vacated seats in parliament from the Socialist Movement for Integration (LSI) electoral list, has been attacked by a group of […]

Tirana, Albania | 24 March 2019 (Tirana Echo) – Albanian police have arrested an Indian citizen linked to the Sandesaras brothers fraud case, after an international arrest warrant was issued by India on money laundering. […]

Tirana, Albania | 16 March 2019 (Tirana Echo) – Another massive protest called by opposition parties in Albania’s capital Tirana, has turned sour as a handful of demonstrators clash with police attempting to storm into […]

Washington, DC | 15 March 2019 (Tirana Echo) – The US Department of State has slammed Albania on pervasive corruption in all branches of the government, but has praised authorities on its internationally backed justice […]