Albania

A trilateral meeting between Greece, Italy and Albania will be held in Athens on Thursday to discuss plans to tackle the refugee crisis, according to the Greek foreign ministry. Top police and foreign ministry officials from the three countries will...

The FYROM Parliament decided on Monday to extend the "emergency" measures on its borders with Greece and Serbia until December 31, 2016, due to the refugee and migrant crisis. FYROM's Defense Minister, Joran Yolevski, highlighted that it is important to...

Huma rights groups and organized crime experts are expressing rising alarm at the prospect of Syrian and Iraqi war refugees — many of them women and children — heading into Albania from Greece, now that the main Balkans route...

Alternate Citizen Protection Minister Nikos Toskas ruled out the possibility of a violent intervention in Idomeni refugees’ camp and predicted that the condition will return to normal in 1-2 weeks. Speaking to private MEGA TV on Friday he said that...

European states raise fences, close borders and bring military forces to protect their borders from the massive refugee and migrant inflow. On Thursday, about 200 Austrian soldiers and police officers conducted a joint operation on Austria's border with Slovenia in...

The Balkan route through which refugees can cross to northern Europe will close and migrants coming from Turkey will end up trapped in Greece, an Austrian newspaper says. Der Standard claims it has seen a rough draft of Monday's official statement...

A Greek flag was burned outside the offices of the "OMONOIA" organization by unknown individuals on Monday night in the Agious Saranta area in south Albania. The Democratic Union of the National Greek Minority OMONOIA is an organization located in southern...

The Albanian government said that a statue of Catholic missionary Nilo Catalano will be erected in place of the Saint Athanasios Orthodox church that was demolished on Wednesday. The Saint Athanasios church in the village of Drymmades was demolished by...

Himare, Albania, municipal authorities demolished the Greek Orthodox Church of Saint Athanasios in the early morning hours of Wednesday to the dismay of Orthodox Christian locals. Bulldozers and municipal police arrived at the Drymades village where the church is and started...

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama did not let the Greek government's comments on developments within Albania slide by. Last week, police and employees of the Himare Municipality in Albania had entered the Orthodox Holy Church of Saint Athanasios and attempted to remove objects...