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Italian ship heads back to Albania with eight migrants

An Italian navy ship has set sail for Albania carrying a second small group of migrants, with Rome looking to salvage a controversial plan to process asylum seekers abroad after a first attempt hit legal hurdles.

Albania aims to join the EU by 2030, prime minister tells expatriates in Thessaloniki

Albania hopes to join the European Union by 2030, Prime Minister Edi Rama told a crowd of some 2,000 supporters at a hotel in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki on Sunday.

Rama also promised that the numerous Albanian expatriates will be able for the first time to mail in their ballots in the next general election, set to take place in Spring 2025.

Thessaloniki: Albanian PM Edi Rama calls Greece a strategic partner – Affirms respect for Greek people – Firm stance on “Northern Epirus” issue

At today’s speech by Endi Rama at a central hotel in Thessaloniki included announcements for Albanians living in Greece.

According to rthess.gr, the Albanian prime minister announced that Albanian teachers who live in Greece and teach Albanian to children will join a program and will receive payment from the Albanian state.

Beleri pelted with yogurt and eggs in Tirana

New Democracy MEP Fredi Beleri has been pelted with yogurt and eggs by unknown assailants outside the Albanian parliament in Tirana.

Beleri, an ethnic Greek born in Albania, was in the Albanian capital as part of a delegation from the European Parliament to assess Albania's progress towards European Union membership.

No face-to-face meeting between Rama, Beleri

A much-anticipated meeting between Fredi Beleri, an MEP from Greece's New Democracy party, and Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama in Tirana will not take place, Kathimerini understands.

October 28, 1940 – OXI Day: When Greeks halted the Axis powers

At 3 a.m. on the morning of October 28th, 1940, Emanuele Grazzi, the Italian ambassador to Greece, delivered an ultimatum from Benito Mussolini to Prime Minister Ioannis Metaxas. “Il Duce” demanded that Metaxas allow the Italian army free passage to enter and occupy strategic sites in Greece unopposed.

EU stays on the sidelines over migrant deal between Italy and Albania

A top European Union official on Wednesday refused to be drawn on an opinion of an agreement between Italy and Albania to process some migrants in centers set up in the tiny Western Balkan country, saying only that it was being closely monitored.

Albanian PM Rama to hold Thessaloniki rally in November

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama is planning to hold a rally for Albanian immigrants living in Greece on November 3 at the Porto Palace Hotel in the northern port city of Thessaloniki.

Has migration become Europe’s song that never ends?

Migration was - once again - at the heart of discussions at the latest EU leaders summit, as the issue has been taking on new dimensions across the continent. This renewed focus on migration comes after the far-right made gains in the European Parliament, in various elections in Germany and Austria, and follows the opening of Italy's controversial offshore detention centers in Albania.

Migration: “Rama’s experiment” – Yesterday’s migrants, today’s guards

Images from the early 1990s of thousands of Albanians crammed onto all kinds of ships—most famously the “Vlora” with 10,000 passengers—on the journey of hope from Durrës to Italy are not so distant. It was August 8, 1991, when scenes of a drama were unfolding at the port of Bari that were destined to be repeated.

Migration: The “Italian model”, closed centres outside the EU and deportations – All the solutions the EU is considering for the refugee problem

The recent Brussels summit, which had immigration as its main menu, may have ended without a result, but Kyriakos Mitsotakis does not appear pessimistic. Not only because he believes that progressively Europeans are coming closer to the Greek position, realizing that the root of the problem is how to discourage migrants from coming onto European soil.

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