Ethnic groups in Albania

A school in Dalmatia, in Croatia, is introducing Albanian language classes, designed in part to keep alive the language and culture of an ancient, tiny community of long-ago Albanian migrants known as the Arbanasi.

The Council of Europe's Human Rights Commissioner Nils Muiznieks has three Balkan governments for evicting Roma families from camps while not offering them any alternative accommodation.

Analysis of data released by the EU statistics body Eurostat shows that in four years, from the start of 2010 to the end of 2013, 58,713 Macedonian citizens obtained permission to stay in or become citizens of EU countries.

The number is more than equivalent to the population of the fifth largest town in Macedonia, Tetovo.

The Holy Synod of the Macedonian Orthodox Church, MPC, the Church's highest governing body, this week confirmed that religious rites performed by ousted priests in Australia who are accused of secessionism are not valid.

However, in a move to calm anxious believers, it has said physical reburials need not occur.

A total of 116 222 foreigners have received Bulgarian citizenship in the period between 2001 and May 2015. The information has been confirmed by the Ministry of Justice.

Out of them, 113 647 people have been granted citizenship on account of their origins. The total number of candidates for the same period was 185 447.

A blast occurred late on Sunday near the office of Democratic Union for Integration (DUI), the largest Albanian political party in Macedonia.

The attack took place in Mala Recica, a village populated by over 8000 people located in Western Macedonia, near its border with Albania.

Great Albania threats to tear Balkan apart

Albanian terrorists, members of the UCK attacked Macedonian institutions in the last two weeks in Gosinac, small city near the Albanian border. Many experts stated that these attacks are reprise of the same scenario like the one in Kosovo. One thing is sure: the tensions between Macedonia and Albania are growing.

BELGRADE - Serbia is entitled to request rights for its minority in Albania, as the Albanian minority in Serbia has absolutely all the rights, in line with top European and world standards, Aleksandar Cotric, a member of the Serbian parliament's committee on the diaspora and Serbs in the region, said on Friday.

"Serb minority in Albania denied rights"

BELGRADE -- Serbia has the full moral right to demand for its minority in Albania the same that it provides for the Albanian minority in Serbia, says an MP.

BELGRADE - Albania does not have a law on national minorities and this is why Serbs and other minorities in the country are not recognised as a national minority, Aleksandar Cotric of the Serbian parliament Committee on the Diaspora and Serbs in the Region said on Friday.