Italy warns escalation of crisis in Albania

Photo: Topalli with Italian President Napolitano
down: April 1997, Italian PM Romano Prodi, accompanied by armed groups in Vlora

A surprise visit of the Albanian Parliament Speaker Jozefina Topalli in Rome, has alarmed the political stability in Albania

Albania's government has extended a four-year-old ban on the use of most private boats and yachts, as part of efforts to fight widespread smuggling. A decision published Friday renews the ban until 2012. It applies to the use of all small vessels, yachts and speedboats owned by Albanian citizens. Illegal boats can be confiscated.

The law that prohibits private boats marine, returned to parliament for blocking again, an uncontrolled movement of naval boats, which can be used by contingents of organized crime, say pro-government news agencies near Berisha.

The law that categorically violates basic human rights, it seems that is returned with an Italian influence in Albanian politics.

In Rome Jozefina Topalli, had short time available, meetings with top leaders of state including President Napolitano. The reason is that a rapid economic crisis in Albania, destabilizing the country and can bring large exodus of immigrants, which Italy had been unprepared along the civil war, in 1997.