Friday, January 15, 2010


Greek - Turkish developments

Suddenly, T. Erdogan, wants to see Mr. Papoulias, at Meeting in Abu Dhabi


Sudden message for a meeting with the President of the Republic Karolos Papoulias, Prime Minister of Turkey, Tayyip Erdogan, on the sidelines of the International Conference on Energy in Abu Dhabi.

After consultation with the government - which did not know the intention of the Turkish prime minister - Mr Papoulias Erdogan accepted the proposal and according to diplomatic sources estimate would be to include the Greek-Turkish relations, Cyprus, EU-Turkey relations and regional problems and will be held on Monday morning.

The President of the Republic is already well prepared and helpful in every respect will be the meeting will be tomorrow night with the President of Cyprus, Demetris Christofias.

Erdogan has called to negotiate the matter of Greek-Turkish relations, according to his letter, tow months ago, for the Greek Prime Minister Papandreou.

Serbia recalls ambassador “for consultations”

Serbia today decided to recall its ambassador in Montenegro for consultations, after Podgorica announced it had established diplomatic ties with Priština.

Official Belgrade has also sent a demarche to the neighboring Montenegro over its decision to establish diplomatic relations with the temporary self-government institutions in Kosovo, a statement from the Foreign Ministry said today.

Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremić ordered the top Serbian diplomatic envoy to this country to be urgently recalled to Belgrade for consultations.

The statement added that Podgorica’s decision today infringed on the regional stability and made more difficult the establishment of best possible relations between the neighboring countries, which the government in Belgrade had set as its priority.


Albanian Parliament Speaker, opposes NATO

"Even one foreign soldier, he will be passed on a vote by the Albanian Parliament"

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Speaking for political show on "Opinion", of " TV Klan", Albania's Parliament Speaker Jozefina Topalli, has dismissed any speculation that deals with the continuing NATO request to facilitate crossing procedures, installation and sending troops of NATO missions inside and outside Albania, without taking decision by the Parliament of Albania.

"We will not break the Constitution for sovereignty against our interests. And a foreign soldier (NATO), it will be passed on a vote by the Albanian Parliament.

Two Ministers of Defense, Fatmir Mahdi (an year ago) and now Arben Imami, have proposed a bill, which authorizes the government of Albania to provide permission for the activity of NATO soldiers in Albania, by removing the right Parliament.

Premier Berisha sees as successful electoral propaganda, the national sovereignty, outside of NATO, opposing the strategic position of NATO in South Eastern Europe.

This clarifies that Albania, in the politically destabilized faze, NATO will find it difficult to intervene at an appropriate time, which understand that, for the Prime Minister Berisha, he would find much greater difficulties than in 1997"

A dangerous game for Berisha..

However, Article 2 of Law Nr 10 100, of March 26, 2009, ..for "the accession of Albania in NATO", states that "the Council of Ministers decides on the transfer of foreign troops from the territory of Albania .." The vote by the Albanian Parliament. (Legal document)

Anyway, Sali Berisha, wants to place NATO in a serious position, putting the face with the Constitution of Albania, a very dangerous game of Prime Minister Berisha ..

Support of Minister Chrysohoides for Northern Epirus Community

"To take the new Greek passport, only shows identity homogeneous cart"

The presidents of OMONIA and HURP, Vasilis Bolanos and Vangelis Doulos during their visit in Athens, met yesterday with Secretary of Citizen Protection Ministry Michael Chrysohoides.

The meeting discussed issues concerning the Greek minority in Albania and focus on the process of acquisition of Greek citizenship from Northern Epirus.

The leaders Bolanos and Doulos proposed for the granting of citizenship, which are not required to provide birth Albanian certificates but the only to show the identity homogeneous cart, to take Greek passport.

The minister stressed that he would consider the matter and noted that to stand on the side of Northern epiriotes.

Thursday, January 14, 2010


"Bomber" in Tirana by "World Bank"

Photo: Ilir Meta, Sali Berisha and Philippe Le Houérou seen today in Tirana.

Paradox: World Bank "asks forgiveness" for the destruction of the village Jale from Berisha's police forces

Philippe Le Houérou, is on an official visit in Tirana and met with Prime Minister Berisha and cabinet ministers including Ilir Meta. Let Houérou said surprisingly that the World Bank, is surprised with "Albania success story", with the support of the International Development Agency, World Bank.

However, focusing on developments last year in connection with the project management of integrated coastal area and the elimination of an ethnic Greek village in Himara, Vice President of World Bank explained that "the World Bank regrets that, in an inspection aimed to see if the Bank was restrained or not its policies, went unfounded statements against the government's actions with this project in the village Jale.

Deputy Prime Minister Ilir Meta, at the time that had been in opposition with Premier Berisha, who had accused the son in law of Berisha Jamarber Maltezin, as the responsible of the demolition of Jale village by police forces, hiding the name of World Bank project.

Meanwhile the government for mutual accusations regarding with the World Bank implication on the village Jale destruction, is waiting to start a trial in Vlora District Court.

see video VOA Albanian language: http://www.voanews.com/albanian/2010-01-14-voa10.cfm

Albania; Census 2011, included ethnic and religious affiliation

The Albanian Government promises once again, census religion and nationality, but the Greek community is pessimistic about this transparency, because they do not believe to the Albanian institutions, which constantly have manipulated census

Photo: A road sign at Narta Municipality in northern Vlora City

TIRANA-For the first time, the Albanian census will include ethnic and religious. The news has given State Minister Genc Pollo, who has declared that General population census will take place in 2011.

Pollo has stated that "population and housing census is an important activity that the government will take in 2011, that serves everyone and gives overview of social and economic developments in the country".

According to him, after this process will become a more just policy in the distribution of money and using them effectively. "The New questionnaire is contained ethnic and religious affiliation. Registration will be conducted in a professional manner, conducted by INSTAT and the support of experts from the EU and internationally" - he said, adding that registration will cost more, but is important as a basis to bring important data.

However, only a year ago, INSTAT made census population of Albania, claiming 4.2 million inhabitants, while for the Greek community it said that constitute 1% of the total population, or 4.2 thousand inhabitants. While according to "Omonia" Organization, 2/3 of total population in Southern Albania, have Greek old origin.

Anyway, the Albanian Government promises again, census religion and nationality, but the Greek community is pessimistic about this transparency, because they do not believe to the Albanian institutions, which constantly have manipulated historically, the census.

REPORT: “COULD EUROPE DO BETTER ON POOLING INTELLIGENCE”




John M. Nomikos, Director of the Research Institute for European and American Studies, laments the lack of cooperation among intelligence services in the Balkans, notes a lack of cooperation in that area and an unwillingness to share information, which only benefits international terrorists. (page 9), .-
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Samaras meets Doules and Bollanos in Athens

The issues that dominated the debate concerning the support of Greece to Albania's European perspective, human and minority rights of the Greek community, issues of education, property and the forthcoming census to be held at the request of the Council of Europe and the European Union.

Following the meetings in Athens, were representatives of the Greek minority, the president of HURP Vangelis Doules and Vasilis Bolanos President of Omonia, visited yesterday the president of the "New Democracy" Antonis Samaras.

The meeting with Mr. Samara was a very good atmosphere. The newly elected president of the "New Democracy" has listened carefully to the positions of both President of HURP and the chairman of OMONIA, and promised full support from him and the party of New Democracy.
The issues that dominated the debate concerning the support of Greece to Albania's European perspective, human and minority rights of the Greek community, issues of education, property and the forthcoming census to be held at the request of the Council of Europe and the European Union.

The recommendation for the chairman of OMONOIA Vasilis Bolanos explained by Mr Samaras, where the work for the reorganization of OMONIA, the constitution conference to be held soon and the elections for all levels which are expected to take place immediately following the adoption of the Statute.

On the issue of property mainly coastal areas, Mr. Bolanos said to Samara that despite the commitment of the Prime Minister Sali Berisha to settle that land to go to its rightful owners in fact nothing happened. The encouraging for the property is the government's decision to delegate to international organizations for the management of this issue¨.

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Albania, security developments

NATO military missions, permission from the government

NATO prepares military intervention, in case of deteriorating situation in Albania, whether humanitarian or stabilizer for serious political situations that may occur in the country.

The Albanian government should avoid Parliament, for sending soldiers to the mission Albanians NATO Alliance, by removing the right of the Constitution of the country. Council of Ministers of Parliament proposes the adoption of a draft Constitution for the clash with the manner of the adoption of international agreements, to send military troops to missions abroad or transit of soldiers within Albanian territory.

New government initiative proposed by Minister of Defense, Arben Imami. The government's new draft law is removed Assembly to approve sending or acceptance of foreign military forces in Albania, and it passes only a government decision.

According to newspaper "Panorama", even in the case of humanitarian aid, had a request of the Albanian Government, for help from NATO, pne contravention of the Constitution, and therefore this should be the right of the Albanian Government.

NATO prepares military intervention, in case of deteriorating situation in Albania, whether humanitarian or stabilizer for serious political situations, that may occur in the country. Legislation should give the government authority to provide strong permission in such cases.

Flood, Shkodra Prosecutor launches investigation requires paperwork by KESH

Photo: Leader of opposition Edi Rama, inspecting floods

TIRANA - Prosecution of Shkodra has launched investigations into massive flooding in the area. According to the albanian newspaper "Shekulli" documents that are verified KESH (Albanian Energetic Corporation) on power plant discharges in Vau i Dejes and Koman are under the jurisdiction of this county.

The prosecution responded after denunciations of opposition that flooding was not a natural disaster but human, as is the Drin Kaskada bad managed.

Precisely here has also launched posts verification from the Prosecution to KESH, the discharges, and other data that the institution owns three Water Powers on the Drin River.

Officially body for the prosecution says that investigations can begin as overcome critical situation in Shkodra and currently being carried out checks on the matter.

Wednesday, January 13, 2010


Albanian Academy sees "Greater Albania" by ... Preveza

The new edition of Encyclopedia in Tirana, can break the anger in Greece, while territories of the modern state of Greece, are included in the map of "Greater Albania"

"Albanian national territories" Ioannina, Igoumenitsa, Arta and Preveza ... "Albanians" Marco Botsaris and Pyrros Dimas. These and many more ... "jokes" includes a new version of the Albanian Encyclopedic dictionary, released recently by the Academy of Sciences Tirana, with public funding.

This is the 'better' reissue of the Albanian Encyclopedic dictionary, which was released in 1985 on the status of Enver Hoxha.

The new version removed the "dictatorial philosophy" 'sections which were replaced with references to stimulate the Albanian national greatness, like the" liberation "of Kosovo, etc..

The introduction emphasizes that this dictionary is "a national character and content" to the Albanian nation and homeland. "

"ALBANIAN NATIONAL TERRITORY" IN GREECE!

For the Albanian Academy of Sciences, the intellectual and scientific elite of the country effectively, the region of Epirus, is "Albanian national territory, which militarily occupied Greece in 1912 to 1913.

"Ioannina with a large piece of Chameria and other Albanian territories were given to Greece by the Great Powers which occupied the military," writes specifically the Encyclopedic Dictionary, which 'sees' Chams in Thesprotia and Preveza.

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"Freedom House": Albania, partly free country

Two Citizenship for the community of Northern Epirus, but civil and political rights are inexistent.

The organization Freedom House published its annual report for political rights and civil liberties around the world.

We report this year, Albania is classified as partly free country, while Kosovo as a country not free. In an interview for Voice of America, Taylor Rojlenc analyst who has followed developments in Albania say that the state of freedoms in the country not changed much in 2008 and in comparison with other countries of the region is weak.

Especially some bills approved by year's end, he says, will negatively affect the description of the situation in Albania and in the organization Feedom House report for 2009.

"One of these is new electoral law that will apply this year for the first time. Another was the law of purity that figures and the third law for the General Prosecutor's Office, which provides for increased powers for the Justice Ministry to check and review the activities of Attorney General.

Rojlenc Lord says that results in weak points, Albania has in the areas of corruption, transparency and functioning of the rule of law, including the independence of judiciary and law enforcement. In the field of media freedom, says Mr. Rojlenc, let the situation much to be desired.

Two Citizenship for the community of Northern Epirus, but civil and political rights are inexistent.

With the award of dual citizenship by the Greek government of Prime Minister George Papandreou, the community of North Epirus, should have civil and political rights in all territory of southern Albania where they live. As civil rights are on land ownership, rights of participants in public and local administrate, the opening of the Greek schools and institutions in all space where they live etc..

As with political rights, the community of North Epirus, should have full political freedom, in local and state political representation, political parties and autonomous administrative rights.

The community of North Epirus after administration of a dual citizenship, is thought to be around 650 thousand inhabitants in a great area in Southern Albania.
Kosovo police interrupt minister’s visit
13 January 2010 | 12:59 | Source: Tanjug
PRIŠTINA -- Kosovo police, KPS, have interrupted the visit of Minister for Kosovo Goran Bogdanović to the Serb enclave of Štrpce.

The enclave in located in the south of the province.

Police told the minister that he “cannot move in that area without the Kosovo government permission”.

After he visited the village of Sevce on his way to Štrpce, Bogdanović and his team were stopped by a large number of KPS members, including those from a “special unit”, dubbed “Rosa”, said reports.

According to the same reports, Bogdanović asked to see a written statement from the government in Priština prohibiting him movement. But a regional KPS commanders said that he had an oral order that Bogdanović “must leave Kosovo”.

The armed members of KPS escorted the minister “toward northern Kosovo”, while it was unclear whether he would go to the administrative line checkpoint of Merdare or to the northern part of Kosovska Mitrovica, which he insisted on, said Tanjug.

Bogdanović commented on the incident by saying that it was an ill thought-through move by Kosovo’s temporary authorities, since he was a resident of Kosovo and “as such, regardless of the ministerial office, had a right to free movement in Kosovo”.

“This is a demonstration that there is no freedom of movement in Kosovo and that local Serbs, residents of Kosovo, myself included, are being denied our basic human right,” said he.

Bogdanović added that he “did not wish to create incidents”, and repeated that today’s events were “the best example of how Serbs live in Kosovo”.
Western Balkans one of EU priorities”
12 January 2010 | 09:28 | Source: Beta, Tanjug
BRUSSELS -- EU Foreign Policy High Representative Catherine Ashton says the future of Western Balkans will be one of the priorities of her activities.

Ashton speaks in Brussels on Monday (Tanjug/Xinhua)


Ashton also and pointed out that she wants for the whole region to progress towards the Union in the future.

In a speech before MPs of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament (EP), she characterized visa abolishment for citizens of Serbia, Montenegro and Macedonia as a positive step, and described the political situation in Bosnia-Herzegovina as complex.

“Visa liberalization is a positive step for the three countries. When it comes to Bosnia, we should find a more effective strategy that will improve the country's current position,” Ashton underlined.

The new high representative for the EU foreign affairs stressed that her priorities will be to strengthen the Union and to assume a more credible role of the EU in the world.

Her appearance before the EP marked the beginning of the hearing of the commissioners designate which will last until January 19.



Tuesday, January 12, 2010


Meetings of Doules-Bolanos in Athens

In very good atmosphere, were the meetings of political representatives of the Greek minority in Albania Vagelis Doulos leader of HURP and Vasilis Bolanos chairman OMONIA with Deputy Foreign Minister Dimitri Droutsa, the chairman of the House Petsalnikos Phillips, the representative of SYRIZA Panagiotis Trygazi a member of the International Relations of the Parliament, the State of Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee of the House, Theodore Paraskevopoulos and the State Department of Parliamentary Group.....



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THE THINGS YOU NEED TO DO... BUT WON'T

The bomb that exploded outside the Greek parliament building, right next to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, in central Athens on January 9, was yet another ringing reminder – no pun intended – that the Greek Government, Greek politicians, and all the Greek “social partners” are not doing what they are supposed to do in order to ensure this country exists in a state of reasonable domestic peace, security, and stability. Setting aside for the moment the heroic, but regrettably boilerplate and palpably counterfeit, words of Greek politicians that followed the blast, we need to focus, yet again, on issues of strategic clarity coupled with those of operational effectiveness.

In a broader sense, it matters little who placed the bomb only a few paces away from the two presidential guards posted to watch over the Tomb, thus putting their lives in imminent danger. It is certainly important to eventually capture the physical perpetrators of this act of grave dishonor and insult upon all of Greece's war dead; it is, no doubt, imperative to satisfy the need to bring to justice the cowards in the shadows, who spat upon the gravestone of those who died in battle in order for our modern “angry” hoodies to come to possess the natural ability to breathe today. What is though even more fundamentally important is to face – and defeat – the reality of inaction, obfuscation, and conscious avoidance that has always dominated this country's nominal counter-terror policies...............

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Albanians refuse to leave home despite flooding

Heavy rains have forced the authorities to open the gates of the dam at the hydroelectric power station at Vau i Dejes, flooding several villages near the Adriatic sea.

Albanians help to evacuate a woman from her home near Dajc, district of Shkoder
Albanians help to evacuate a woman from her home near Dajc, district of Shkoder Photo: EPA

Surrounded by raging waters, the villagers of Obot in northern Albania are determined to stay put to secure their modest homes, which were flooded after heavy rains pelted this rural region for days.

"If God has decided that I should die here, let it be. At least I will die in my house, with the only cow that I still have," 60-year-old Gjon Cepi said somberly from the first floor of his little house.

The ground floor is already flooded and only the contours of several pieces of furniture are visible under the murky waters.

Obot, a small village with about 450 inhabitants, ten kilometres (six miles) north from Shkodra, the main town in the area, has come to national attention after disastrous floods swallowed more than ten thousand hectares (25,000 acres) of this Albanian farming region.

A group of around a hundred villagers has refused to be evacuated from their homes, despite calls by the authorities.

The four kilometre-long road that links the village to the rest of the country has also been flooded. Military units take more than 30 minutes to reach Obot by boat.

The crossing itself is difficult, due to strong currents and numerous tree trunks and animal corpses floating in the water.

Visitors to Obot are greeted by an eerie silence only occasionally broken by the cries of animals in distress. Rain continues to pelt the village for hours on end.

Old Cepi could not accept the idea he had to leave his home, as everything his family has ever had was invested there.

"[The earnings of] my son's ten years of working in Italy are totally annihilated," he said.

In a neighbouring house, Florian Franajn - who has been working in Greece - said he had invested 15,000 euros (£13,370) to plant decorative trees and a greenhouse to grow flowers.

"All was lost in just three hours," 30-year old Franajn sighed.

He said he did not expect state compensations for his loss.

"People have lost their houses and their cattle here. Who will think about my flowers and my trees? Only God will help me," he said.

Army captain Gani Boceri said that his people were going door-to-door to convince inhabitants to leave their homes.

"But there are some who want to remain. There are others who want to return the next day to see what has happened to their houses," Bocari said.

With his 800 soldiers, Bocari's job was to assist and evacuate the flood-stricken with their meagre belongings.

"The real damage of this catastrophe will be seen in the weeks to come, when the water withdraws," predicted Marin Pena, a schoolmaster in Obot.

Heavy rains have forced the authorities to open the gates of the dam at the hydroelectric power station Vau i Dejes, causing flooding of several villages near the Adriatic sea.

Arjan Starova, Albania's deputy defence minister, who visited the flooded region, promised that the state would compensate material damages.

The prime minister, Sali Berisha, who visited Shkodra on Monday, praised the fact that no one had died in the floods.

But the Albanian leader added he was worried about economic consequences of the floods in the fertile region considered as Albania's breadbasket.


K. Albanians oppose new status talks

The Kosovo government and political parties in Priština reject all possibilities of new status negotiations with Serbia regarding the status of Kosovo.

This is according to Albanian language daily Zeri, that quotes Kosovo Albanian government spokesman Memli Krasniqi as saying that “the Kosovo government will never agree to negotiations with Belgrade regarding Kosovo’s status. The status of our country is irreversible.”

Reacting to a report in Belgrade daily Blic yesterday that the government in Belgrade was waiting for the opinion of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the legality of the unilateral declaration of independence in order to call a meeting of the UN Security Council for restarting negotiations on Kosovo’s status, Krasniqi said that “there can only be negotiations with Serbia regarding other questions that are in the joint interest of the two countries.”

The opposition in Kosovo is also against new talks, stating that “Serbia itself should give up on this strategy.”

“No one in Kosovo can return the situation to the period before the talks with Serbia,” Secretary General of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo Burim Ramadani said.

Political analyst Ilir Deda said that negotiations with Serbia are possible, “but only regarding issues such as European integration”.

“There will be talks for issues that Serbia and Kosovo need to solve in order to enter the European Union. The international community will not condition Serbia to recognize Kosovo, but it will demand a normalization of relations between Serbia and Kosovo,” he said.

This analyst told Zeri that the EU will not allow “Serbia or Kosovo” to move ahead in European integrations “without some sort of mutual agreement”.

Monday, January 11, 2010


ND opposes migrant citizenship bill

Main opposition New Democracy will vote against a tabled draft bill changing, among others, the country's naturalisation code, ND leader Antonis Samaras underlined on Monday, referring to a high-profile initiative by the government to grant citizenship to eligible second-generation children of migrants.

Samaras, a former minister who recently assumed the party's helm, also pledged to repeal any provisions of the draft bill when his party comes to power.

Moreover, the ND leader repeated his warning towards the government not to proceed with the mass legalisation of migrants, as he said, "without preconditions now being implemented by most European countries".

"The government did not listen to this plea," he charged, adding that he has already conveyed a memorandum to the relevant interior minister spelling out the reasons that ND's deputies will oppose the draft bill.

"In the memo there are comparisons with measures taken by other European countries, so it can clearly be demonstrated that ND is within the European reasoning, whereas the government bill is beyond any reasoning; it simply serves obvious petty political expediencies," he said.

Additionally, he said other European countries not faced with the wave of illegal immigration now plaguing Greece have, nevertheless, adopted stricter conditions for granting naturalisation and citizenship.

"Instead of being careful ... we are moving away from common sense, our (European) partners and our own best interests," he said.

Samaras said the specific draft bill will facilitate the even greater flow of illegal immigrants towards Greece, "who will merely have children in Greece, which in turn will automatically be granted Greek citizenship, thereby legalising their parents..."

"Greeks are a people, not a population. What transforms a 'geographical area' into a unified country and the 'local population' into a people is its identity," he emphasised.

Samaras countered that the Greece-born children of legal migrants in the country should be granted, following an application, citizenship upon reaching adulthood and after completing nine years of compulsory education.

"Greece is an open, democratic society and we do not want to turn the country into a closed fortress, however, we will not allow it to become lawless," he concluded.

Meeting of Droutsa with Bolanos-Doules

On Tuesday, January 12, 2010 at 12:00, Greek Deputy Foreign Minister Dimitris Droutsas will meet at the Foreign Ministry, the president of Omonia and Himara Mayor, Mr. Bolanos and President of the Party of Human Rights Mr. Evangelos Doulos.

The meeting holds on the perspective of the developments inside the Greek community in Albania.
“Fight for new Kosovo talks in 2010”
11 January 2010 | 10:01 | Source: Blic
BELGRADE -- Belgrade daily Blic writes that the Serbian government will be calling for new negotiations for the Kosovo status solution in 2010.

Steps have been taken to immediately, “literally the day after the opinion of the International Court of Justice in The Hague is given, to call a meeting of the UN Security Council”, says the newspaper.

“A fast push and fast progress” will then begin in order to get new negotiations and finding a solution between Belgrade and Priština, Blic writes.

The daily’s source said that without this, Serbia’s strategic goal of EU membership will not be possible.

“The open question of Kosovo is halting Serbia’s EU progress, hurting relations with American as the largest world power without whom there is no political or economic progress, it is also straining relations with the most influential and prosperous European countries and making Serbian unable to become a true leader in the region, because real friendly relations with its neighbors are not possible,” the article continues.

In the region, only Romania and Bosnia-Herzegovina have not recognized Kosovo’s unilaterally proclaimed independence, and of the others, only Montenegro has yet to send an ambassador to Priština, Blic says.

Belgrade, “naturally”, writes this newspaper, reacts negatively to ever step towards cooperation with Kosovo by its neighbors, “deteriorating” relations in the region.

Even though political analysts and experts maintain that the search for Kosovo solution cannot be fast or easy, the government is dedicated to making “fast progress” in solving Serbia’s main problem this year, Blic writes.

Albanian hypocrisy:

Ekrem Spahia: "Thanks for the help from the Greek Government"

The Chairman of King ultra Nationalist Party and Defense vice Minister in the government of Sali Berisha, Ekerem Spahia has changed the "Mask", returning to a "philo Greek" as usually happens in Albania. During his entire political career, he together with Republican Sabri Godo, have named Greece as the greatest enemy of the Albanian nation.

The Television "Top Channel" has found a real paradox telling the nationalist politician changing guise, whenever the need calls his boss, Prime Minister Sali Berisha for the relationship with the Greeks. Spahia thanked Greek team for the help in floods in Shkodra.

In 1997, President Sali Berisha used secret service chief, Bashkim Gazidede, and deputy Blerim Cela, to declare that the uprisings in Albania against Sali Berisha, had organized Greece and CIA.

So, in 1998 coup d`etat, the man nearest Berisha, Ekerem Spahia, was the organizer of the attack against the socialist government, which called "the Greek government of Fatos Nano".

The paradox continue .....Whenever disaster happen in Albania, the Greek forces take the honors as a thanksgiving for humanitarian aid, while in everyday life of Albanian policy, Greece attacked by officials of Tirana, as the mostly 'enemy' with threatens Albania.

http://www.top-channel.tv/artikull.php?id=172472&ref=fp

Sunday, January 10, 2010

The floodgates opened in spectactular fashion in Albania.

Authorities were forced to discharge water from three hydro electric power stations after danger levels were reached.

Rain and melting snow have caused the worst floods in Albania in almost half a century, with some 2500 homes having to be evactuated.

The EU and others have sent aid, but angry locals say help is taking time to get through.

“The houses are all flooded,” one man said. “No aid has come from anyone, no-one’s brought us anything. We were told to register, people have all fled to neighbouring villages.”

The worst hit area is the Shkodra district, north of the capital Tirana.

http://www.euronews.net/2010/01/10/albania-hit-by-worst-floods-in-almost-half-a-century/



Edi Rama, accuses the owners of the media in Albania

"You are returning as lifeboat, for Berisha's Corruption"

Once again he has accused the attorney general for not lifting the immunity for Sali Berisha. Only late in last night, the opposition leader Edi Rama denounced with force, provide support the owners of media to PM Sali Berisha, to manipulate the truth of the recent events.

"Albania media owners rarely support as a ruling totalitarian tendencies of Berisha, in exchange for fiscal interests, using newspapers and television as rescue bark, to support the government corruption of Berisha, about actual flooding situation," said Edi Rama.

About 4 / 5 of the Albanian media are set in the function of propaganda that the totalitarian regime of Sali Berisha, by hiding the truth of events in Albania


Albanian State toward bankruptcy

The Opposition; "This situation, is corruption and not flood"

Albanian opposition charges General Attorney

Opposition leader Edi Rama, has charges General Attorney Ina Rama for the floods in Northern Albania. After having charged directly to Prime Minister Sali Berisha as guilty for the floods, now targets top prosecutor headed of Albania, for indifference about incurring situation for corruption.

Pressure for the General Attorney Ina Rama, comes immediately after the criminal charges that have been made to the country's Prime Minister Sali Berisha, for which the prosecution does not get any measure to strip immunity.

Albanian media said that, charges can not happen of such an event, since the Prosecutor General remains in office as a "puppet" of Prime Minister Sali Berisha.

The great risk of Albanian State

According to investigative newspaper "Tema", Albania is going to list of the states that democracy is failing. Are many reason to have made it possible to end such a classification for countries that democracy, to be failed.

Since the creation of the Albanian state in 1913, the country has passed some systems, regimes and governments, which have failed to integrate the state and institutions in democracy.

The free voting process, the private property and democratic justice system, has been determinate failed Albania.

Now is proving the national wealth, which is the case of hydropower, a major floods in the north western part of the country, to became e new catastrophe.

Albanian politician Arber Xhaferi, qualifies Albania and its political class failed, for which this country should be formatted once again.