The Albanian Prime Minister turned up at his offices in Tirana for our interview wearing what he called his “painting clothes”—denim work shirt and jeans, lightly paint-spattered. Edi Rama had spent ...

Albania has the 39th-largest economy in Europe as measured by gross domestic product. In the Balkans, only North Macedonia, Moldova, Kosovo and Montenegro have smaller economies. “Albania has made ...

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni is traveling to Albania to thank the country for its willingness to host thousands of asylum seekers and tour the sites of two migrant detention ...

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama attends a press conference following the second intergovernmental EU-Albania conference in Luxembourg city in Luxembourg, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024, during the Hungarian ...

Between 1990 and 1992 Albania ended 46 years of xenophobic Communist rule and established a multiparty democracy. The transition has proven challenging as successive governments have tried to deal ...

On October 22, Albania became the second Muslim-majority country to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism. The Washington Post reported that the ...

Area: 28,748 sq. km. (slightly larger than Maryland). Major cities: Capital -Tirana (600,000, 2005 est.). Others – Durres (200,000, 2005 est.), Shkoder (81,000 ...

Albania has been announced as the Official Host Country of ITB Berlin 2025. On Wednesday, 6 March 2024, Albania’s Minister of Tourism and Environment Mirela Kumbaro and Dr. Mario Tobias, CEO of Messe ...

Albania has a historic opportunity to break with the past and accelerate its path towards prosperity and integration into the EU. The country needs deep structural reforms in order to eliminate ...

Albania is a small, mountainous country in the Balkan peninsula, with a long Adriatic and Ionian coastline. Along with neighbouring and mainly Albanian-inhabited Kosovo, it has a Muslim majority - a ...