Archive for November, 2008

19 Nov

Albania hunger strike

Parliament approves controversial electoral reform Ten MPs on hunger strike – small parties face a disadvantage Tirana – The Albanian Parliament decided on Tuesday to electoral reform. On Monday, the international side of a long-awaited project to the competent legislative committee with the votes of the two largest parties, the ruling Democrats and the opposition [...]

17 Nov

Albanian Oil

Tirana, Nov. 17, 2008 – A new autonomous Albanian oil statement release by Manas petroleum estimates the worth of its unverified Albania oil detection to be to the degree that $11.9 billion (€9.3 billion). Enormous and undamaged reserves of Albanian oil and gas have been discovered in northern Albania, Manas announced in January. The report [...]

12 Nov

Albanian parliament meets on election reform

(FindAlbanain) – Tirana, Nov. 11. – The Parliament of Albania and state occupied in protest against approving the new electoral law that pushes toward the pole. Eleven members of the Socialist Movement for Integration, the party of former premier Ilir Meta, and the Democrat Party contest Monday that the reform ‘should be adopted by the [...]

12 Nov

Michel Platini in Albania

UEFA President Michel Platini arrived today in Albania for discussions with the national association and government officials, as part of his four-nation tour that started Tuesday. Platini is scheduled to visit also other national sports academy and view the construction of a new training centre there, undertaken with the help of funds from UEFA’s HatTrick [...]

10 Nov

Albania building collapse

Albania: a third body retrieved after the collapse of a building GJIROKASTER, Albania – Rescue teams have retrieved Monday morning a third body, that of a girl twelve years, killed by the collapse on Sunday of a building in Gjirokastra (southern Albania), which also injured several others , Announced the police. The body of the [...]