Albania

Greek Foreign Minister, Nikos Kotzias, said that Greece is determined to resolve suspended problems with northern neighbours. “2018 is the year when we will find a solution to the problems with our neighbours, which have been suspended for decades. We...

President of the Hellenic Republic, Prokopios Pavlopoulos, called his Albanian counterpart Ilir Meta on the telephone on Tuesday, and thanked him for granting Albanian citizenship to the Archbishop of Tirana, Durres and all Albania, Anastasios; the head of the...

The Archbishop of Albania, Anastasios, led hundreds of Orthodox devotees at the Tirana Cathedral on Monday, where he held the first liturgy as an Albanian citizen. Anastasios thanked Albania’s President Ilir Meta for his decision to be granted citizenship. “I expressed...

Inaugurated in 2015 by the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Albanian counterpart Bujar Nishani the construction project of the Grand Mosque 'Namazgja' in Tirana is continuing faster than it was imagined. Journalist Vincent Triest uploaded on Twitter the...

The Albanian government took the first steps to implement the agreement between Athens and Tirana on the exhumation, identification and burial of the bones of Greek soldiers who fell on Albanian territory, during the Greek-Italian War of 1940-1941. According to...

Greek and Albanian police chiefs decided on Thursday on a coordinated plan of action involving police officers in Greece and Albania to deal with the major drug problem between the two countries and cross-border crime in general. Hellenic Police chief...

Greece and Albania took "a step forward" in resolving open bilateral issues during a meeting of their respective foreign ministers over the weekend in Crete, according to their joint statement on Sunday. Nikos Kotzias and Ditmir Bushati discussed "in a...

The Greek government has reacted very calmly to the expropriation of homes and businesses of the Greek minority in Himara, after the Albanian authorities decided to turn the town into a holiday destination. The Himara Greeks who have seen their...

A people-smuggling network based in Athens that tried to get Albanian migrants into the UK, has been busted by the Greek police, in cooperation with Albanian and UK authorities. The gang provided Albanian migrants with fake Greek and Cypriot passports, in an...

Greeks of Himara reacted, as massive police forces arrived in the area on Tuesday in order to help with the implementation of the project to demolish Greek homes and businesses. Several houses and businesses that belong to Greek minority residents...