Albania has emerged as a new EU accession frontrunner among Western Balkan states, Andreas Schieder, the European Parliament’s rapporteur for Albania, said on July 9. This is a significant turnaround ...

Albania's Socialist-led parliament has voted to strip center-right opposition leader and former Prime Minister Sali Berisha of legal immunity as part of an ongoing corruption case.

TIRANA – Albania’s Parliament voted Thursday to approve a deal for the country to hold thousands of asylum seekers for Italy, despite protests from opposition lawmakers and human rights groups.

A coloured smoke bomb lighten by Ervin Salianji an opposition lawmaker is seen during a parliament session in Tirana, Albania, Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023. Albanian opposition has tried to disrupt the ...

ROME — Italy's lower chamber of parliament on Wednesday approved a novel government deal with Albania to house migrants during the processing of their asylum requests, a cornerstone of Premier ...

TIRANA, Albania — Albania’s parliament voted Thursday to lift the legal immunity of former Prime Minister Sali Berisha, who leads the opposition Democratic Party and is being probed for ...

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albanian opposition lawmakers violently disrupted a Parliament session Monday to protest the imprisonment of a fellow legislator for alleged slander.

TIRANA, Albania — For months, Albanian opposition parties have used flares and noise to disrupt Parliament, in protest at what they describe as the authoritarian rule of the governing Socialist ...

Fredis Beleris, an ethnic Greek politician imprisoned in Albania for vote-buying, says he hopes his election this month to the European Parliament will help boost the rule of law in Albania.

Beleris, a jailed member of Albania’s ethnic Greek minority recently elected to the European Parliament with Greece’s governing conservative party, arrived in Athens on Monday, July 15, 2024 ...

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania’s Parliament voted Thursday to approve a deal for the country to hold thousands of asylum seekers for Italy, despite protests from opposition lawmakers and human ...