Albania

The remains of 108 Greek soldiers killed during a WWII advance in Albania, as Greece repelled an attempted invasion by Italian forces, have so far been unearthed during an ongoing search at Dragot (Tepeleni). The Hellenic National Defence General Staff...

A few thousand Albanian Chams rallied on Saturday outside the Greek Embassy in Tirana demanding that Athens issues an apology for what they called a genocide against them after World War Two. Carrying placards reading "We will never forget the...

The Novartis case - which is shrewdly referred to as the "Novartis scandal" by the Greek government - is obviously not an effort to fight corruption. It is a forced attempt to smear political opponents of the Alexis Tsipras...

The European Commission will propose to the Member States, probably by summer, the start of accession talks with Albania and FYROM, said Johannes Hahn, Commissioner for Neighbourhood Policy & Enlargement Negotiations. Hahn talked to German newspaper Die Welt saying...

Greece's military is setting up a DNA database to help identify the remains of Greek WWII soldiers who died and were buried in Albania. The Hellenic National Defence General Staff announced on Wednesday the establishment of the database with samples...

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama said Greece must recognize the rights of Cham Albanians in Greece’s Epirus region, including the right to claim lost property. In an interview on Tuesday with Greek daily Ta Nea, Rama said the Chams should...

  There is a Cham issue with Greece and the Greek Foreign Minister heard wrong when he said there is not, Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama said on television on Thursday. Greece's Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias had stated previously that there...

Controversy has erupted after a pupil at the opening of an Albanian-medium school in Crete was pictured with a Tirana official wearing a t-shirt bearing a map that claims part of Greece for Albania. According to Cretan website FlashNews.gr the...

Amid the recent focus on Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’ high-profile Davos meeting with FYROM leader Zoran Zaev, the Greek leader also met Albania’s Edi Rama on a series of sensitive issues. Tsipras was joined by Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias...

The process of officially exhuming the remains of thousands of Greek soldiers who fell in the mountains of southern Albania at the start of WWII is to begin Monday, with the activation of a bilateral agreement signed by Greece...