The Democratic Party (PD) is set to hold its second national assembly in a week, as a nation-wide referendum is taking place to oust current party leadership. PD chairman Lulzim Basha called a meeting of the party’s highest decision-making organ for December 18 in response to the national assembly initiated by former Prime Minister Sali
The Albanian government has approved an agreement with Serbia and North Macedonia allowing companies operating in the field of security and defense to benefit from reduced customs and border procedures. The three leaders of the Open Balkan initiative – Edi Rama, Aleksandar Vucic and Zoran Zaev – will hold their 7th summit in Tirana on
The Albanian opposition announced their first protest against the Open Balkan initiative for December 20, on the day that the initiative’s seventh summit is set to take place in Tirana. Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama will host the summit alongside Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev who are expected to visit
On December 11, Sali Berisha, a two term Prime Minister and President of Albania, addressed some ten thousand jubilant Democratic Party congress participants in Tirana’s main soccer stadium. The political event was a novelty in many ways: one of them was the direct call by Mr. Berisha to Madame Yuri Kim, the US Ambassador, not
The ambassadors of the United States, European Union, Germany, Italy, France, and United Kingdom discussed the Democratic Party (PD) internal strife with chairman Lulzim Basha on Tuesday. One day earlier, opponents of Basha, who were elected members of a steering committee to lead the party after a PD national convention dismissed Basha and the rest
The two opposing leadership groups of the Democratic Party held separate meetings at the party headquarters for the first time since the highest party body, the National Convention, dismissed Lulzim Basha as PD leader. On Saturday, the PD National Convention called through a process initiated by Sali Berisha replaced Basha with a 29-member temporary steering
The claim that George Soros is sponsoring the decision to declare ex-President and Prime Minister Sali Berisha as persona non grata in the United States is “absolutely wrong” and “dangerous”, according to Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Gabriel Escobar. In an interview given to journalist Sokol Balla during his visit to Tirana, he was asked
Journalists reported being prevented from filming in or around the Assembly called by co-founder, ex-prime minister and president, and persona non-grata in the US, Sali Berisha, in Tirana on Saturday. The Assembly brought more than 7000 Berisha supporters to the Air Albania Stadium in the centre of the city, to vote on dismissing current Party
On Sunday, the executive council of the Democratic Party voted in favor of dismissing its chairman, 9 members of the steering committee and its secretariat, and 11 heads of party regional offices following their vote to dismiss PD leader Lulzim Basha in a national convention called by his predecessor Sali Berisha earlier. In an emergency
Yuri Kim was nominated US Ambassador in Albania in late 2019 and started her diplomatic mission in January 2020. In less than two years, she has become a controversial and well-known figure, constantly appearing on the front page of newspapers and portals and even on talk shows in the country. She has been a strong