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Albania’s ex-president Meta detained by police, spokesman says

Albania's former president Ilir Meta has been detained by police over corruption allegations, his spokesperson and lawyer said on Monday.

Meta's spokesperson Tedi Blushi told a press conference the arrest was "inappropriate" and that it would "be condemned by all patriotic and honest Albanians."

Former Albanian President Ilir Mehta arrested for corruption

The head of the Freedom Party and former Albanian president, Ilir Mehta, has been arrested. Meta’s arrest comes on the orders of the SPAK (anti-corruption body) and he is accused of corruption.

The former Albanian president is accused of three counts of corruption and failure to declare assets, according to top-channel.tv. Reports say he is also accused of money laundering.

Parliament: A “patchwork” of ten parliamentary groups – What’s happening with the electoral law and the 4-5% threshold

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Athens declines NATO Baltic mission

Greece has declined a request from the Baltic nations - Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia - to participate in air patrols over their airspace, citing its current obligations in the Balkans.

The Baltic countries, which do not have fighters of their own, had asked Greece to deploy F-16 jets to help safeguard their skies as part of a NATO air-policing mission.

Rome court rejects orders to detain migrants in Albania

A Rome court has rejected orders to detain a group of migrants in a reception facility in Albania and said they had a right to be brought to Italy, dealing a blow to Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's plan to divert asylum-seekers abroad.

Kyriakos Mitsotakis: No more tolerance for national concessions – First priority is the deportation of migrants

Determined not to let the rhetoric of “national concessions” fester, Kyriakos Mitsotakis appeared from Brussels, speaking in strong terms of “super-patriots” and implicitly but responding to Antonis Samaras’ new shots, even though he separated his views from the right-wing rebukes of the government, against the backdrop of the Greek-Turkish dialogue, and immigration.

Bulgaria Backs Proposal for Migrant Centers Outside EU Borders

Acting Prime Minister Dimitar Glavchev shared his thoughts in Brussels regarding European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen's proposal to establish centers for illegal migrants outside the European Union's borders. He stated, "This is not a bad idea; we have the first such example with Italy and Albania.

Mitsotakis to Financial Times: Cautious about Italy-Albania Migrant Agreement – Europe needs workforce as population shrinks

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis expressed reservations about the Italy-Albania agreement to establish migrant reception centers outside Europe, questioning its viability at a European level. In an interview with the Financial Times on Thursday, Mitsotakis said, “Let’s be cautious here. This is a bilateral agreement. I’m not sure it can be applied across Europe.

Pressure mounts amid surge in migrant flows

The refugee center in Shengjin in Albania, where irregular migrants that reached Italy will be transferred. Rome and Athens react to Berlin's pressure for a specific reference to the reactivation of Dublin in the conclusions of Thursday's European Council on migration.

Albanian restaurant honors Italy’s Meloni as migrants arrive under deal

As Italy dispatched a first group of asylum seekers to Albania on Wednesday under a new deal between Rome and Tirana, one eatery in the port town where they arrived found cause for celebration.

First Italian ship with 16 intercepted migrants docks in Albania

An Italian navy ship has docked at the Albanian port of Shengjin to bring the first group of 16 migrants intercepted in international waters to be processed there.

The naval ship Libra left the port of Lampedusa on Monday with 16 men - 10 from Bangladesh and six from Egypt - who were rescued at sea after departing from Libya, a ministry spokesperson said.

Albania Welcomes First Migrants Under Italy's Controversial Deportation Deal

Albania has welcomed its first group of 16 migrants deported from Italy, as reported by El Pais. The Italian warship Libra docked at the port of Shengjin, and shortly thereafter, the migrants began disembarking, having been rescued in the Mediterranean on Monday.