“The agreement with Albania on migrants can become a model of collaboration between EU countries and non-EU countries on the management of migratory flows” said Giorgia Meloni in an interview with Il Messaggero, while the Albanian politicians of opposition raise barricades. "It is an agreement that strengthens the strategic partnership between Italy and Albania and arises [...]
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The second one-week training cycle for a delegation of magistrates of the Special Anti-Corruption and Organized Crime Prosecutor (SPAK) and Senior Officials of the Albanian Judicial Police and the NBI (National Bureau of Investigation) concluded today. At the conclusion of the work, the aforementioned delegation was received by the Prefect Vittorio [...]
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Albanian migrants crossing the Channel will be repatriated within a few days thanks to an expulsion agreement signed last night between Great Britain and Albania between Bledar Cuci, Albanian Minister of Internal Affairs, and Priti Patel, English Minister of the Interior. Albanians who come from a safe third country will be considered ineligible to [...]
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As part of the Italian Week in Albania, the 2022th anniversary of the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding between the Italian and Albanian Ministry of the Interior on advice and assistance for 17 was organized today in Tirana, the European Youth Capital for 1997. the reorganization of the Albanian police force, signed on September XNUMX, XNUMX. Minister Luciana [...]
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Honorable Niko Peleshi visiting the Operational Command of Vertice Interforze The Commander of the Operational Command of Vertice Interforze (COVI), Army Corps General Francesco Paolo FIGLIUOLO, received yesterday morning a visit from the Minister of Defense of the Republic of Albania, Hon. Niko PELESHI. During the meeting, General FIGLIUOLO and Hon. PELESHI discussed [...]
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Undersecretary Ferraresi: 'with the pandemic crisis we need to increase the commitment to transparency and new technologies'' Optimize the use of new technologies tested in the acute phase of the pandemic, increase transparency in the public administration and strengthen international cooperation. These are the main elements on which the action of the Ministry of Justice is focusing on the fight against [...]
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Euronews reports that Chancellor Angela Merkel would like to bring the countries of the Northern Balkans to the European Union. Macron's France is against the proposal. Yesterday Merkel met the Albanian Prime Minister, Edi Rama, in Berlin. From Merkel's words, it is legitimate to deduce that the meeting was characterized by great cordiality: "In the name [...]
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In the morning today, a team of the RENEA (Albanian Special Anti-Terrorism and Critical Intervention Departments) arrested the 38-year-old fugitive BASHO Tesi, near the city of Valona. The wanted man was subjected to a life sentence issued by the Turin Court of Assizes of Appeal in 2011 for a double murder of two prostitutes committed in Italy in 2008. The [...]
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In Tirana, the Albanian opposition led by Lulzim Basha is demonstrating against the government of the socialist premier Edi Rama (elected in 2017) to ask for "a transitional government that prepares early elections that are free and in compliance with international standards". A group of demonstrators stormed the government building, trying to break through the main entrance, but [...]
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The European Union has started screening to verify if Macedonia and Albania are ready to start negotiations, scheduled for June 2019, for entry into the Community area. EU governments late according to the "road map" for the preparatory stages of the procedures for verifying the requirements for entry into the Union, as France and the Netherlands had [...]
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The SANCAS project, funded by the EU and coordinated by the Department of Public Security - Central Direction of the Criminal Police, continues this year. The project, among other activities, provides for overflight activities by means of aircraft of the Guardia di Finanza equipped with sensors for the identification and location of cannabis plantations in Albanian territory. These operational activities will be supported, on the one hand, by national funding and on the other hand, will take place under the aegis of the European project SANCAS - SUPPORT TO ANTI CANNABIS STRATEGY, which implements the consolidated Italian program - active for years -, and which will allow, in [...]
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According to General Alessandro Barbera, Commander of the Central Investigation Service on Organized Crime (SCICO) of the Guardia di Finanza, who spoke at the press conference held in Catanzaro after the 25 arrests made by the Fiamme Gialle under the coordination of the DDA of Catanzaro "The Stammer operation 2 confirms that the 'Ndrangheta is the most powerful organized crime in the [...]
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"First mission for ABI and Italian banks in Albania, to assist and support companies that want to participate in the process of development and productive modernization of the country and its integration with our economy." It is the President of the ABI Internationalization Committee, Guido Rosa, who reiterates the Italian banking sector's support for internationalization [...]
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Next Monday 178 companies will be present in Tirana (35 of which in the context of the second edition of the South Export Plan), 14 between industrial associations, category and public institutions, 3 banks, for a total of over 346 participants. A multi-sector initiative promoted by the ministries of Economic Development and Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation [...]
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The Albanian President of the Republic Ilir Meta, who took office for less than two months, is in Rome today, for his first official visit abroad. Meta is in Rome at the invitation of the President of the Italian Republic Sergio Mattarella, who will receive him at the Quirinale. Subsequently, the Albanian head of state will see the president of [...]
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