Albania: Increase in prices. Cause: Decrease in local production: The decrease of production from greenhouses and local farmers caused the increase of prices for consumers. These changes with opposite directions have been present for several days in the retail markets, but according to the farmers, the increase of prices will not be similar to the last years.
Albania, Kosovo and the EU: The dream that Albania has of joining the European Union is in deep trouble.
Swimming to Corfu, from the coast of Albania: Throughout Enver Hoxha's rule, hundreds fled communist Albania by crossing the sea to their nearest neighbor. Twenty years after the regime fell, a freestyle swimmer retraced their perilous route.
EC: Albania is refused the status: Albania’s progress was blocked by the political stunt. During a press conference on the progress report on Albania, European Commissioner for Enlargement, Stefan Fule explained why Albania was rejected for the second time the status of the candidate country to the EU.
Albania's last communist leader Ramiz Alia dies: Albania's last communist president Ramiz Alia — credited with opening one of the world's most isolationist political systems to democracy — has died. He was 85.
