Foreign relations of Albania

Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic met on Wednesday in Tirana with Albanian Foreign Minister Ditmir Bushati.

They spoke before the second trilateral meeting of foreign ministers of Serbia, Italy, and Albania.

An Albanian who flew a drone over the pitch during a Serbia-Albania Euro 2016 qualifier in Belgrade last fall has been arrested in Tirana.

An Albanian who flew a drone over the pitch during a Serbia-Albania Euro 2016 qualifier in Belgrade last fall has been arrested in Tirana, the Albanian police said in a release on Wednesday.

Bulgaria should have called a regional summit to tackle the migrant crisis, instead of mobilizing the army to guard its borders, a recent analysis reads on the EUInside.

It says the former option would have helped see what is most needed by countries affected by the influx of migrants such as Serbia, Macedonia and Greece.

Bulgaria is ready to help neighbouring Macedonia meet the requirements for joining the European Union and NATO, Bulgaria's Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov said on Monday.   

He also said that increased migrant influx to Macedonia highlights the need to strengthen considerably the European integration of the countries of the western Balkans.

Despite anticipation of a speedy deal between Athens and Tirana on their maritime borders in the Ionian, Albania’s Foreign Minister, Ditmir Bushati, warned on Wednesday that negotiations could take some time.

Sonja Licht said on Thursday that PM Aleksandar Vucic's visit to Tirana will be written in the history of Serbian-Albanian relations.

Relations between Albania and Greece took another turn for the worse on Wednesday after the neighboring country?s Prime Minister Edi Rama called on Athens to renegotiate its maritime borders with Tirana.

FRANKFURT - The Pristina authorities and some foreign ambassadors have welcomed the peaceful protests of three ethnic Albanian opposition parties that want the establishment of the community of Serb municipalities banned, but turned a blind eye on the fact that the rally was held under flags of a "Greater Albania", Frankfurtske vesti reported on Monday.

BELGRADE - Serbian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic will participate on Friday in the closing panel discussion of the Third EU - Southeast Europe Summit in Split, Croatia, the Serbian ministry said in a release.

"Unification" of Kosovo and Albania "through EU"

TIRANA/PRISTINA -- Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama has said that Albania and Kosovo "united the nation through the European Union."