Albania Recieves EU Candidate Status

After many unsuccsessful tries, Albania recieved today the European Union Candidate Status.

 The EU General Affairs Council meeting Tuesday in Luxembourg agreed to grant EU candidate status to the Albanian country, subject to endorsement by EU heads of states at their summit on Friday in Brussels.

"This is a clear step forward in EU-Albania relations, reflecting the progress the country has made in European integration and in implementing the necessary reforms. Today's decision underlines the EU's continued and credible commitment to support Albania in its efforts towards this goal," said the Council in a statement.
Albania, however, still needs to meet key priorities, with particular focus on administration and judiciary reform, fight against corruption and organised crime and fundamental rights, it noted.

Along with other Western Balkan countries, Albania was recognised as a potential country for EU membership in 2003. A Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA) entered into force on 1 April 2009. In the same month, Albania submitted its application for EU membership.

The European Commission recommended that Albania be granted EU candidate status in October 2013.
Being recognised as an EU candidate country has a number of implications for Albania. It is an important political signal for Albania and its citizens, showing that the country is moving to the next phase of the European integration process.

The candidate status raises the relationship between Albania and the EU to a higher level. Albania will now receive invitations to EU Ministerial Council meetings open to candidate countries. Its access and cooperation with EU agencies will be easier.

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Durres, tragic accident, 36 year old dead

An accident resulting in the death of a 36 - year-old has recorded this morning at the site known as Mulliri i Bullgarit , road segment Taskin - Durres.

According to Durresi police , Fiat vehicle type , with AA834FO plates , driven by 40 -year-old Pajtim Smoqi , by Shijak collided with a motorcycle driven by 36 -year-old Alvin Muça from Xhafzotaj .

Bike collision with vehicle type Aprilia , with plates AF601 , has devoted 36 -year-old life .

The injured worker was sent to the emergency hospital in Durres , but the collision was fatal and he died at the hands of the doctors .

Meanwhile police station accompanied the 40 -year-old Pajtim Smoqi . Investigation team is working to shed light on the dynamics of the tragic accident .

It is thought that the humidity in the street and high speed may have been the cause of the fatal collision .

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Tirana, cannabis dealers caught

Two suspected drug traffickers, who traded cannabis being disguised as cupboard conveyors, were arrested by police in the capital during the early hours of Friday.

During the operation, codenamed "joinery" in the Siri Kodra way was arrested Nard Deliu, 29, and Hysen HYSA, 60 years old. Both arrestees were caught circulating with a "Volkswagen" vehicle and inside it were found narcotics hidden in a cupboard and divided into 10 packages.

For several months the police had put in tapping these two arrestees and their documented involvement in drug trading in various areas of Tirana. Police is investigating the two suspects for property or other criminal assets acquired.

During the last 24 hours, in Tirana, Durres, Lezha and Gjirokastra have been seized 218 kg and destroyed 3 thousand and 898 narcotic plant roots.

Lezha, cannabis farms discovered

Police in Lezha has discovered in the early hours of Friday morning a parcel planted with narcotics. The news comes from local police sources, according to which the plot was discovered in the village Krajen and about 400 cannabis sativa were planted.

Sources add that associated with the cultivation of these roots the owner of the field, George Brunga has been arrested. Lezha police currently is coordinating actions with the local prosecutor's office for further prosecution of this case.

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Toponyms, Greece allows temporary movement

The Greek Ministry of Interior decided to allow movement of immigrants who have problems with toponyms. The news has been made ​​public by the Ministry, through a circular, which was sent to the Greek border with Albania.

In the circular stated that the movement will be permitted from 13 April to 5 May During this time will allow the movement of migrants with problems with toponyms. Police ordered to allow movement, but this category of immigrants passports will not be placed entry or exit stamp from Greece.

Greek Ministry announces that it is continuing to find a solution between the governments of the two countries. Meanwhile, associations of emigrants living in Greece, have announced a protest Tuesday afternoon outside the Greek Parliament, which will require final resolution of this problem.

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Trial opened against Gjika has been delayed

Vlora Mayor, Shpetim Gjika, along with gentian developer Sherifaj were the only of the eight defendants from Vlora, which came in front of the Court of Tirana, on behalf of the criminal trial that addresses the charges of document fraud and illegal construction.

Two of the defendants Eleni Dardhaj, worker of  Directorate for Territorial Planning and Gezim Feta prosecutors had issued to be represented by lawyers. While the other four codefendants were missing. Standed in this situation. The Judge Arben Micko counted the sheets sent to the charged to receive information.

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Tirana, 24-hour strike of urban transport on friday

Urban transport in Tirana on Friday, will be introduced in a 24-hour strike in protest at the failure of any official response, regarding the concern raised for months to increase the price of the bus ticket.

Representatives of civic urban transport announced the beginning of this strike deeper because the employees of this sector not being paid .

This strike comes after two previous protests, after which there is no solution was found. Tirana Municipality rejected several proposals to fill the request by the Ministry of Transports, while the latter expressed the position that the issue of urban transport in the capital to pass on the powers of the municipality.

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Greece Threatens the Albanian Immigrants

Decisions of Greek, whose side were asked to bring certificates or passports with the correct naming of Greek toponyms to update documents or permit their children to stay , Albanian immigrants living and working in the city of Thessaloniki requested by the Albanian authorities to provide solutions to this problem so vital for them that started about two years ago .



Gathered in one of the halls of the prefecture of Thessaloniki initiative of representatives of some political forces in emigration , tens countrymen have emphasized once again that no solution of this problem will destroy all their hard work and effort in two decades in the state of Greece . For months the Greek authorities deny hundreds of immigrant children born in Greece over the border due to topographical native in their passports that are in Albanian and not the international . Finally problem for renewal of residence permits have encountered because of the children and their parents , you can not renew in some cases their health cards .

Immigrants are expressed that despite promises not see concrete steps to solve the problem , while periods of time that was available to give the Greek authorities are short and they are forced to lead these issues in court and spending money.


Also asked that official Tirana aim as it did with Belgium , the signing of the recognition of years of work in Albania in Greece for the immigrants.In the end of the meeting all participants have signed a petition to the Albanian Foreign Ministry and to know even the Prime Minister Edi Rama , by which require urgent acceleration of procedures so that we topographical denominations of certificates and passports to be children as defined in the relevant international agreements .

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13 Year Old Child Injured by a Vehicle in Shijak

13 years old in a coma, he has been hit by a car. Kosova: Moving in Tirana may put his life in risk

Durres - A 13-year-old child was seriously injured noon today after being hit by a vehicle in Shijak. Learned that the 13-year-old SH. Mushlika traveling by bike when it collided by a car traveling at speed. Car driver has transported himself the boy to the hospital in Durres, where we learn that 13-year-old is in a critical state. Durres hospital doctors asked his transportation to the Military Hospital in Tirana, or in a more specialized private hospital, but his transportation is very difficult, because an ambulance is needed with respiratory, or a special helicopter. Relatives of appeal to the Minister of Health Halim Kosovo to enable transporting the boy to a specialized hospital, in order to survive it. According to hospital doctors Durres, 13-year-old received serious injuries in the body and is of 3 hours in a coma. //Albania On Air

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Genci Çarçani Jailed!

Serious Crimes Court ruled in prison security measure for Genci Carçani​​, the man killed Saturday his ex-wife, Valbona.

Court sources said the man was silent while listening to the prosecution indictment claims for premeditated murder in the family.

Carçani was the first that opened the series of killing three women in two days that shook society. Both crimes were located in Tirana for two women victims, who had dared to denounce the police seeking protection orders. 

But lawyers and experts for the protection of women's organizations say that the Protection Order, should be revised to be more effective.

Justice people watch the changes of the Criminal Code for stricter punishment of violence as a crime deterrent, but have a wider coordination to prevent crime family.

Tirana is known as the city where there are many denunciations of violence against men's from women's. Within this year, the Court has recorded 360 requests for protection orders, but 200 of them were dismissed because women are attracted to the Court.

On the other hand the Tirana Prosecution states that are under investigation for the following 6 months, 90 folders on charges of domestic violence, in which 15 people are under arrest in prison and others to the extent of the obligation to display and house arrest.

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Two womans have been killed by their husbands!

Another crime within the family hit Tirana, recording the third such killing, within a few days in Tirana, the fourth in the country.


Alketa Cani, 36 years old, was murdered by her husband, Ilirijan Cani, in their home, around 18:00 on Monday. Later, the man tried to kill himself, but neighbors carried him to the Military Hospital of Tirana, in a serious condition for life.

Police, after collecting evidences, said that the couple had conflicts, and author of the murder accused his wife for treason. But police said that at the time of the crime, he was under the influence of alcoholic beverages.

Earlier Monday morning, a 44-year-old killed his wife with crowbars, in circumstances still being investigated. The event took place in the field Mamurras when Marjan Leshi executed his wife of 27 years old, Valbona.
Another hit kryeyqytetin crime within the family, recording the third such killing, within a few days in Tirana, the fourth in the country.

Alketa Cani, 36, was murdered by her husband, Ilirijan Cani, in their home, around 18:00 on Monday. Later, the man tried to kill himself, but neighbors carried him to the Military Hospital of Tirana, in a serious condition for life.

Police, collecting evidence before, said the couple had long conflicts, and author of the murder of his wife accused of treason. But police said that at the time of the crime, he was under the influence of alcoholic beverages.

Crime, according to police was made with a Kalashnikov automatic type, and 36-year-old has found immediate death, taking bullets in the head and body. Cani couple had two young children. The main track was jealousy investigation, while police took custody of arrested for the crime at the Military Hospital.

Earlier Monday morning, a 44-year-old killed his wife with crowbars, in circumstances still being investigated. The event took place in the field Mamurras when Marjan Leshi executed his wife of 27 years old, Valbona.

Kurbin Police Station arrested 44-year-old, who admitted to have committed the crime for reasons of jealousy. Monday's events have shaken the public after coming to homicide in the way a mother of two children, last Saturday morning, and a mother of eight children in the combine.

Murder of Alketa Cani is the third murder to a woman within three days after it occurred on Saturday was in Tirana and the fourth since the beginning of the month, after what happened at the Kombinat of the capital city.


All four cases have gone to investigate the Prosecution of Serious Crimes, the new changes to the criminal code, which thought that would prevent crime family. But, although extremely severe penalties for those who commit such crimes, their wave has hit the country again, turning into a nightmare for order situation in the country, given that guns are carried out in two cases, as well as in public. Police still remained far from preventing this serious crime.

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50 Years Old was Killed in Tirana

Another tragedy happened yesterday evening in Tirana, where one person was shot at the entrance of a building near Partizani Gymnasium.

Police sources said the victim is called Edmond Dervishs, about 50 years old, but are still unclear the causes of the murder.

The same sources said that the victim was shot nine times with a pistol by certain persons traveling in a vehicle brand "Mercedes" and quickly left the place of execution.

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July brings rising temperatures

The first week of July will bring gradual increase in temperatures across the country and the start of a more stable weather, compared with the days of June.

According to synopticans, Sunday marked decrease of the temperatures by marking 28 degrees at the maximum value, and is associated with cloud cover and precipitation, which are located mainly in the mountainous areas of the territory of Albania.

This is due to the circulation of air masses in the country, from north-west Europe.

But fickle weather - will follow early this week from a clear weather and warmer.


So, on Monday, temperatures are expected to suffer an increase of three degrees Celsius, marking 31 degrees. Gradual increase in temperature will have on Tuesday and on other days, the period following the start of hot summer.
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Accident in Gjirokastra, murder in Tirana

A serious accident where three people died, occurred in Gjirokastra-Tepelena axis.

According to the first informations, it's a Fiat car brand, with Greek license plates, which initially collided with the side of the road borders and then burst into flames.

The accident occurred around 17:00 and the victims are the brothers Luan and Faik Mancellari, respectively 57 and 62 years, and Luan's son, Laurent.


Persons who are killed in the Qafe Gjashta of Saranda. Police said some occasional people's

tried to come to help the victims, but the outbreak of fires immediately after the collision, made ​​it impossible to do so.

Killed 22-year-old with a knife
It was shot after an banal fight in the way "Don Bosco" in Tirana

A 22-year-old man died after being attacked with a knife in the area of ​​"Don Bosco", in Tirana, while police arrested suspicious person for this event.

The victim is Arber Mitro from Tirana. He died en route to hospital, while the killer is called Bajaraktari Elton, turned himself into police stations.
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The comunist residue's left

In a letter sent Albanians by Top Channel, former U.S. Ambassador to Tirana John Withers says the June 23 vote was a historic act.

Withers says that parliamentary elections recalibrated the national history compass, the remnants of the communist past left and democracy was restored, so there should be no turning back.

Former U.S. ambassador says in his letter that he is not surprised by the elections results of a week ago, as according to him Albanians marked another struggle for freedom.

He wishes the next Prime Minister Rama for the elections victory, while for the incumbent Prime Minister Sali Berisha says that he rarely agreed with his domestic policies, but respected him as a person.

"Perhaps history will judge him more towards", says Withers.

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