Forty years after the death of dictator Enver Hoxha, whose four-decade rule over Albania drove it into isolation and poverty, ...

Albania was once a socialist backwater with ... several billion euros are generated from drug trafficking every year. Despite all the poverty in the country, living conditions have improved ...

The Albanian prime minister's wife, staunch human rights advocate and economist joined Mika Brzezinski at the Forbes and Know ...

Albania’s role in saving Jews during the Holocaust ... or whether they were rich or poor,” Petrit Zorba, head of the Albanian-Israeli Friendship Association, told the Jewish Telegraphic ...

Over the coming five-year period, the World Bank Group will focus its support to Albania in the following three key areas. These focus areas are based on five fundamental priorities identified as ...

WASHINGTON, February 12, 2025—The World Bank Group’s Board of Executive Directors has approved a $120 million Second Resilience and Green Development Policy Loan (DPL) to support Albania’s efforts in ...

Signed in November 2023, the Italy-Albania migration deal mandates those ... Six had already been sent back due to being minors or in poor health. Despite the prior legal roadblocks, the ...

In the early hours of November 10, 2022, police raided a cannabis production and processing plant in the village of Rerez, near Berat in central Albania. They found four large greenhouses ...