The Olympic Festival event at the Air Albania stadium in Tirana, the most beautiful sports event of the year in Albania that brought together more than 10,000 high school students from all over the country in the opening ceremony of the Olympic Festi...•
EU-Western Balkans Summit
Tirana Declaration, 6 December 2022
We, the leaders of the European Union (EU) and its Member States, in consultation with Western Balkans leaders, and in the presence of regional and international stakeholders, today ...•
Statement by Prime Minister Edi Rama
The Prime Minister of Albania, Edi Rama unequivocally condemns the unjustifiable and intolerable act of violence against the organizer and leader of today’s protest! Violence has not been, is not and never ...•
Prime Minister Edi Rama hosted Thursday the President of the Federal Republic of Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who is paying an official visit to Albania.
At the bilateral meeting and at the extended meeting of the respective delegations at the Ma...•
Albania celebrates the National Flag Day and the 110th anniversary of the country’s independence.
Honouring a long-standing tradition, the celebration events kicked off in the coastal city of Vlora with the national flag raising ceremony that start...•
The city of Lezhe was the Prime Minister Edi Rama’s next stop as part of his tour to inspect the affected areas due to the heavy rains that have been battering many parts of Albania since last Friday. Thanks to the hard work by Lezhe Mayor and loca...•
After visiting the coastal city of Durres, Prime Minister Edi Rama inspected the flood-hit areas in Shkodra after the heavy rains over the past few days. The situation on the ground is completely different from the floods in 2010 despite similar wate...•
Prime Minister Edi Rama on Tuesday inspected several flood-hit areas after the heavy rains that swept across Albania, starting with Durres, where the critical situation in the last few days was best handled thanks to the local government and relevant...•
Today, after going through all the legal steps, I signed a total of 15 construction confiscation procedures, where the legal limits of the permits were exceeded or in some cases they were built without a due construction permit at all. The confiscate...•
The work on construction of the six-km Llogara road tunnel in the south-western region of Vlora is full steam ahead. Prime Minister Edi Rama, accompanied by the Deputy Prime Minister Belinda Balluku, also the Minister of Infrastructure and Energy, in...•
Around 68% of the construction work has been completed at the road linking the coastal town of Orikum and the village of Dukat, one of the most important infrastructure investment projects in the coastal region of Vlora and entire southern Albania....•
Albania and North Macedonia signed a series of bilateral agreements and memorandums of understanding as part of today’s joint session between the governments of both countries to strengthen and boost cooperation on the areas of European integration...•
Prime Minister Edi Rama’s interview with Sky News
– You have seen and heard the rhetoric coming out of the UK about Albanian migrants, talks of invasion, talks of Albanians involved in criminality? How does that make you feel when you hear th...•
The post-earthquake reconstruction programme has fully delivered on the urban transformation of the town of Shijak with the construction of new, stronger and more beautiful residential buildings and single family homes already complete.
Prime Ministe...•
Prime Minister Edi Rama hosted Monday the visiting U.S. Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, a member of President Joe Biden’s cabinet.
During the meeting at the Maps Hall at the Prime Minister’s office, the g...•
The leaders of the six countries of the Western Balkans; Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Serbia, signed three regional agreements at the Berlin Process 2022 Western Balkans Summit on Friday.
The three regiona...•
Prime Minister Edi Rama is on a visit to Berlin, Germany, to attend the Berlin Process 2022 Western Balkans Summit. The Summit is chaired by the German Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz and attended by heads of states from the Western Balkans, represe...•
Prime Minister Edi Rama welcomed Thursday the President of the European Commission Ursula Von Der Leyen, whose agenda of Albania visit began with inspection of the ongoing work on one of the major and strategic projects on recovery and modernization ...•
First phase of a project on rehabilitation of the new Internal Medicine Hospital, an integral part of the Trauma University Hospital Centre in Tirana, is already underway, the latest investment project designed to turn the facility into a new centre ...•
Prime Minister Edi Rama, on an official visit to Israel at the invitation of the Prime Minister of Israel Yair Lapid, was received by the Israeli Knesset Speaker Mickey Levy, to discuss among others the perspective of multifaceted cooperation between...•
