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Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama says his country and neighboring Kosovo could one day have a single president, although he added that it was not likely to happen in the near future.

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama said Feb. 18 his country and Kosovo could one day have a single president as a “symbol of national unity” between Tirana and Pristina.

Juncker said it was wrong to represent him and the European Commission as having said that Serbia and Montenegro must be in the EU by 2025.

"That is an indicative date; an encouragement so that the parties concerned work hard to follow that path," he said," the EC president said in Strasbourg before the unveiling of the EU's enlargement strategy.

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama has said that the issue of Cham rights remains one of the thorniest problems in talks between Athens and Tirana.

Speaking on Albanian TV, Rama dismissed recent remarks by Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias according to which Greek and Albanian officials are not discussing the Cham issue.

The six Greek soldiers buried under the Brigo family's olive trees near Himare, a town in southern Albania, have a shrine marking their resting place. Scattered in the nearby valleys, however, others don't. Their remains lie where they fell in 1941, fighting in hot pursuit of the Italian fascist troops they chased out of Greece.

According to a statement, the goal of the MoU is to "enhance already very good relations between" WBF and RYCO.

The ceremony took place in the WBF premises in Tirana, Albania, in the presence of high officials from the ministries of foreign affairs of the Western Balkans 6, European diplomats, representatives of civil society organizations and media, the statement said.

Borisov and Ana Brnabic met in Sofia on Thursday on the sidelines of an international conference dedicated to stronger regional integration in the Balkans, attended also by officials from Tirana, Sarajevo, Pristina, Skopje, and Podgorica, Beta is reporting, citing the Independent Balkan News Agency.

The renaming of Skopje’s airport from “Alexander the Great” to “Kiro Gligorov” (former Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia -FYROM- president) proposed diplomats in the country, an idea that seems to be accepted by Prime Minister Zoran Zaev despite the strong objections expressed by Nikola Gruevski’s main opposition party VMRO-DPMNE.

TIRANA - The Regional Cooperation Council's (RCC) Roma Integration 2020 Action Team will organise a conference in Tirana on Friday to address the needs and priorities in the Western Balkans and Turkey concerning filling in the budget gaps in Roma integration policies, with a specific focus on employment and housing for Roma.

The Mustafa Busuladzic Elementary School in Sarajevo hit back at the criticism of its new name on Thursday, saying that Israel "has no right to give moral lessons to others" because of the building of Jewish settlements in the Palestinian territories in defiance of a UN Security Council resolution.