The government of Albania establishes national holidays. These are called red-letter days and are paid holidays under Albanian law. Weekly holidays are 36 hours periods that include Sunday. The weekly ...

(Bloomberg) – Albanian prosecutors ordered that containers filled with suspected hazardous industrial waste be seized after the cargo was forced to return to Europe from Southeast Asia. The ...

Albanian officials say they prevented a ship suspected of transferring a huge amount of hazardous waste from docking at Tirana’s main port TIRANA, Albania -- TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania ...

Albania is implementing important structural reforms that will support equitable growth, raise productivity and competitiveness in the economy, create more jobs, and improve governance and public ...

Italy’s government has declared 19 countries safe for migrants as part of a new law designed to salvage its €670 million plan to process asylum seekers in Albania. In an emergency cabinet ...

Meloni’s government hopes the decree will mean Albania’s migrant centres can be used. The Italian government has passed a new decree to circumvent a recent ruling from the Rome tribunal and ...

Meta served as Albania's president from 2017 to 2022. He now leads the center-left opposition Freedom Party. Freedom Party officials denounced his detention as a "criminal kidnapping." Video of ...

Albania's left-wing Freedom Party said Monday its leader and former Albanian President Ilir Meta has been arrested on alleged corruption charges. Meta, 55, was arrested in the capital, Tirana, by ...

Ilir Meta, the former president of Albania and leader of the opposition Freedom Party, was arrested Monday in Tirana on charges of corruption, money laundering, and failure to declare assets. Agents ...

Albania’s former President and curent leader of the opposition Freedom Party, Ilir Meta (C), is escorted to a police vehicle at Tirana’s Police Headquarters, in Tirana, on October 21, 2024 ...