Northern Epirus

Police in northern Greece have set off tear gas and flash grenades during a rally to protest the fatal police shooting of a man in Albania.

Albanian police shot Greek-Albanian dual citizen Constantinos Katsifas over the weekend, saying he opened fire on officers at an ethnic Greek village.

The Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama, called Greece “spoiled” warning that Albania will “no longer be silent on the historical issues between the two countries” indirectly bringing into the agenda the so-called “Tsam issue”.

Municipal workers look on as an excavator demolishes properties belonging to ethnic Greeks in Himara, southern Albania, on Wednesday. Tensions are said to have peaked after authorities decided to knock down houses belonging to members of the country's Greek minority.

The operation that was carried out on Tuesday for the demolition of several Greek properties in Himara has caused an outcry among residents of the area, but it has also prompted the reaction of the leader of the Unity for Human Rights Party (PBDNJ), Vangelis Dule.

Athens said on Tuesday that it is closely monitoring events in Albania as TV footage in the neighboring country showed some 3,000 police arriving in Himara in the southeast of the country to oversee the demolition of several homes belonging to members of the ethnic Greek minority.

The spectacular photos from the military parade in honour of the “Ochi” (trnslt. “No”) Day National Anniversary.

Ethnic Greeks in Himara are to hold a rally on Monday to protest a decision by Albanian authorities to demolish several homes belonging to minority families in this predominantly ethnic Greek seaside holiday resort on the Balkan country's southeastern coast.

The Greek Foreign Ministry Thursday condemned a decision by Tirana to allow the demolition of homes belonging to ethnic Greeks in Himara.

The move appears to be an attempt to distract Albanian public opinion from a scandal implicating a former minister in drug crimes, the Greek ministry said.

This map shows you just how big the separatist and autonomous movements are all over Europe and not just in Catalonia.

It has local interest too. The very first case it shows is that of Northern Epirus, the Southern part of Albania, refering apparently to the “Protocol of Corfu” signed in 1914, which provided a status of autonomy to the indigenous Greek minority.

The “National Association of Northern Epirus 1914” participated for the third consecutive year at the Annual Conference of the Office of Democratic Institutions and Human Rights of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) held in Warsaw.