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Greece won’t consent to Albania’s EU accession if there is no progress regarding Beleri
Greece will not consent to the next stage in Albania's EU accession talks if there is no progress on the matter of the elected mayor of Himare, Fredi Beleri, Greek diplomatic sources reiterated in Brussels on Tuesday, writes Greek news agency ANA-MPA.
The same sources underlined that Greece's position is clear and has been explained to the Albanian side. They...
Zero benefits for Albania from China’s Belt and Road Initiative
In 2017, Albania signed a cooperation agreement with China in the framework of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). It was conceived as an attempt to enhance bilateral cooperation in the areas of infrastructure, production capacity, tourism, and agriculture. Six years later, very little has been achieved.
During a tour of Albania by Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli on April...
“E-Society.mk”: The fight against disinformation requires transparent institutions, active media and civil society efforts
(This content is a translation of the original article in Macedonian, published on the 7th of December 2022)
To minimize the negative effects of disinformation on democracy, we must jointly fight it. For that to happen, the institutions must be transparent and the media and the civil society must actively be checking and debunking disinformation. Media education on critical thinking...
Rama: External forces court the Western Balkans, but there will be no renunciation of the EU membership
It is frustrating to wait, but Western Balkan leaders need to reject proposals from foreign powers and maintain faith in EU membership, Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama appealed in an interview with the Financial Times
“Others can bring money, investment, maybe even caviar, but they will not be able to bring what you need to build a functioning free country,”...
Zaev, Vucic and Rama signed the first official documents of the OpenBalkan Initiative
As the first important steps of a new and concrete impulse to promote regional co-operation within the framework of the "OpenBalkan" Initiative, North Macedonia’s Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, the president of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic and the Prime Minister of Albania Edi Rama, yesterday signed the Agreement on Cooperation in Protection and Rescue Operations in Natural Disasters in the Western...
“Faktoje” wins the legal battle against most state institutions in Albania in the “Invoices” case
The Administrative Court of Albania decided that the 8 highest state institutions, namely the Presidency, the Parliament of Albania, and several ministries, would provide Faktoje, the fact-checking website in Albania, with information and invoices about the official trips that heads of institutions took abroad. Decisions were made fairly quickly, despite the challenges caused by the pandemic across the system,...
Analysis: Balkan countries do not have a consistent strategy for COVID-19 testing
No country in the world knows the exact total number of people infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 disease. All that is known is what can be learned from the official records kept by health authorities based on the results of the tests performed. All infections that are laboratory confirmed are considered confirmed cases.
This means that the...
Twenty thousand Covid-19 cases have been registered in the Balkans, more than one third of them are in Serbia
Two months since the first case of COVID-19 was registered in Croatia, as the first Balkan nation to have officially confirmed the presence of the virus, there almost 20,000 inhabitants of 10 Balkan nations that have been infected with the virus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CB8HhRy16kM
What's most striking about the official statistics published by the World Health Organization, the Johns Hopkins University and Worldometer,...
Negotiations start date for Macedonia not until October
Yesterday, EU member states did not accept the recommendation from the European Commission to set a date for opening membership negotiations for North Macedonia and Albania. According to EU Commissioner Johannes Hahn, a small number of countries opposed it.
The draft conclusions from the ministerial meeting on general affairs in Luxembourg, which the media previously reported, said that EU member...
Are Albanians to blame for Serbia’s bad performance at Eurovision?
Serbian fact-checking project "Raskrivanje" has carried out a thorough check into the nebulous claims made by the Serbian daily newspaper "Alo", which accused Fjolla Ismaili, a Macedonian jury member in the selection of the Eurovision song, of somehow to blame because the Macedonia jury did not award any points to Serbian representative Nevena Bozovic.
"This jury left Serbia without any...
Mogherini: It will be a huge mistake if the EU does not start negotiations in June
High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini expects accession negotiations for North Macedonia and Albania to begin in June.
Addressing the Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament, Mogherini said it would be a huge strategic mistake and an example of the EU's "short-sightedness" if it does not decides to open accession negotiations with...
While Albania builds, Macedonia waits for funds for a rail link
Albania is actively involved in the construction of the railroad from Corridor 8 in its part of the territory. On the move from Tirana to Durres, construction work is already under way, and in the final stage for the selection of a contractor for the reconstruction is the railway from Durrës to Elbasan.
The Director of the Public Railway Infrastructure...
“Srbija Danas” sees Greater Albania in Zaev-Rama meeting
The Serbian news portal "Srbija Danas" sunk to a new low yesterday, as some Serbia websites pretends to call themselves the media in order to post comments in the form of news.
Namely, broadcasting the integral news from the Serbian state news agency "Tanjug" on Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev's visit to Tirana for talks with his Albanian counterpart Edi Rama,...
Alma Janka: The best remedy against misinformation is media education
In an interview with Portalb.mk, Alma Janka, chief editor of Faktoje.al, a fact-checking service in Albania, says that the best "remedy" against misinformation is media education. According to her, there should be a greater spirit of cooperation between the media and other actors that influence the media world, with respect for the code of professional ethics, the principles of...
Albania ratified Macedonia’s NATO Accession Protocol
With 130 votes in favor of and none against, the Albanian Parliament voted Macedonia's NATO Accession Protocol. The session was attended by the Macedonian President of the Parliament, Talat Xhaferi who expressed great gratitude when the session was over for the support that Albania provided for this country.
Xhaferi said that Skopje is dedicated to building a society for...
Albania to ratify Macedonia’s NATO membership protocol tomorrow
Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi will pay a working visit to the Republic of Albania today.
The parliamentary press service informs that Xhaferi will attend the next plenary session of the Assembly of the Republic of Albania, where the Protocol for Membership of the Republic of Macedonia to NATO will be ratified.
Yesterday, the State Council of the Republic of Slovenia ratified...
With footage of Gruevski’s deleted, Albanian news site claims it was “sent” to Macedonia
Writing about the request of the Macedonian prosecution about the security footage of the ex-Prime Minister Gruevski's escape through the Albanian border, Albanian news site "BalkanWeb" in an article titled "Albania sends footage of Gruevski's escape", claims that the footage has already been downloaded from the system and, in accordance with the request from the Macedonian authorities, shall be sent to Skopje.
The...
The video recordings of Gruevski automatically erased by the systems in Albania – they couldn’t store them for an extended period
The recordings from the security cameras that recorded the getaway of convict Nikola Gruevski to Albania were not provided and this country didn't act upon the request for international legal help from the security services, said the state Public Prosecutor Ljubomir Joveski during the debate about the Law on the Special Prosecutor's Office at MANU.
-There are several explanations provided...
Top 5 cases of disinformation on the escape of Gruevski
From the entire range of disinformation about the escape of Gruevski on November 11, we have chosen the following five as the biggest i.e. most flagrant ones when it comes to their mendacity, especially since they are a product of someone’s imagination, without any connection with the reality and which were proven to be completely false.
The escape of the...
Families of those convicted in “Divo Naselje” protest in Pec and ask how Albania allowed Gruevski to escape
In Pec, Kosovo, the family members of those convicted for the armed incident in the Kumanovo settlement of Divo Naselje in May, 2015, protested this morning, demanding the release of their loved ones and made accusations against former Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski regarding the mentioned events, Portabl reports.
The protest was held in front of the "Dukagjini" hotel, where...
