Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama’s choice to cut ties with Athens was reflected by Tuesday’s ruling of the Special Anti-Corruption Court in Albania sentencing the elected ethnic Greek mayor of Himare, a municipality in southern Albanis, Fredi Beleri, in the first instance, to two years in prison on charges of vote buying.
The conviction by an Albanian court of the elected mayor of Himare “heightens the concerns raised about the objectivity of the process,” Greece’s Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday, after an ethnic Greek was sentenced to two years in prison for buying votes. The ministry said that Beleri’s presumption of innocence was jeopardized “due to external […]
A mayor from Albania’s Greek minority who was sentenced to two years in prison on Tuesday for buying votes, described the judicial proceedings as a “sham trial.”
An Albanian court on Tuesday convicted a mayor from the country’s Greek minority to two years in prison for buying votes, a ruling that was expected to raise tensions with neighboring Greece. The Special Court on Corruption and Organized Crime also handed Pantelis Kokavesis, Beleri’s aide, an 18-month suspended sentence. During the trial, Beleri said […]
NATO member Albania on Monday inaugurated a refurbished Soviet-era air base, the alliance’s first in the Western Balkan region. The air base is named after the small town of Kucova, 85 kilometers (52 miles) south of the capital Tirana. Officials said the new air base will serve as a modern hub of operations, for training […]
NATO member Albania, which has no fighter jets of its own, opened a rebuilt Soviet-era air base to serve NATO aircraft on Monday amid an increased threat from Russia, Prime Minister Edi Rama said.
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.
Albania’s Parliament votes Thursday on a deal with Italy to hold thousands of migrants rescued in international waters by the Italian authorities while their asylum applications are processed.
Defense Minister Nikos Dendias conveyed a message to Albania on Wednesday, urging the country to respect the European Union standards and regulations as it progresses towards EU accession.
For the past nine months, Kathimerini has been drawing attention to the judicial odyssey of Fredi Beleri, the mayor-elect of the predominantly ethnic Greek city of Himare in southern Albania, and to the violations of human rights, the rule of law and the principles of democracy entailed in his persecution
The ethnic-Greek mayor-elect of the Albanian town of Himare Fredi Beleri should receive a jail sentence of two and a half years, Albanian prosecutors said at his trial on Tuesday.
Albania’s top court gave the green light on Monday to a deal letting Italy build migrant processing centers on Albanian territory, a scheme that has faced criticism from opposition and rights groups.
The Appeal of Albania’s Special Court for Corruption and Organized Crime (GJKKO) on Monday rejected a request by Fredi Beleri, the ethnic-Greek mayor-elect of Himare, to be sworn in before the municipal council.
A deal allowing Italy to build reception camps in Albania for thousands of migrants arriving by sea raises concerns about arbitrary detention and living conditions, the UN human rights chief said on Thursday.
Leaders of the six Western Balkan countries, including Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia, met on Monday in Skopje, North Macedonia to discuss reforms needed to access the European Union growth plan presented last October.
Athens is standing in the way of an EU-Tirana Defense and Security Agreement over the Albanian government’s intransigent stance regarding the incarceration of the ethnic Greek mayor of Himare, Fredi Beleri.
