Greece and Albania at war, threat of veto arrived ​

Moreover, they also facing a big problem with minorities. Greece is now indirectly threatening to veto the beginning of Albania's accession negotiations to the European Union.
Altin Meshini is a successful producer of organic cheese in Prmet in southern Albania.
His shop is a real tourist attraction: it is located in a large bunker built in 1939 by Mussolini's Fascist Italy and used by Italian soldiers to shell Greek army trenches during the Greco-Italian War of 1940-41.
At that time, Albania was occupied by Italy. After the Greek army pushed back the Italians, bloody fighting broke out around Prmet. According to the Greek Embassy in Tirana, during the Greco-Italian war, around 8,000 Greek soldiers died in Albania, of which 1,300 were buried in cemeteries in Albania. For Altin Meshini, preserving war memories like this is an important step towards understanding how precious life and peace are. "Look at my dairy," he told DW, "it was originally built to take lives in an absurd war. And I use it to feed lives in peace."
People like Meshini may have learned the lessons of the past, but the same cannot be said for the relationship between Albania and Greece. Bilateral relations between the two countries have been strained for a long time, and many problems have their roots in the past.

Albania and Greece are officially still at war

These include disagreements over the delimitation of maritime areas, the state of war between the two countries which officially still continues, and the issue of property rights of members of the Greek minority in Albania.
After Italy attacked Greece from the territory of occupied Albania, Greece declared war on Albania in October 1940. Although Albania and Greece signed a friendship agreement...