News and press releases

TIRANA, 17 December 2014- The OSCE Presence in Albania, in co-operation with the Minister of State for Local Issues/National Co-ordinator against Corruption, Bledar Çuçi, launched in Tirana today a new initiative to support anti-corruption measures in Albania...

The OSCE Presence in Albania has presented local civil society associations ARSIS and Children of the World and Albania the 2014 Presence’s Award for their contribution in assisting street children and fighting child trafficking at the ceremony in Tirana...

The OSCE Presence in Albania concluded a series of seminars in Tirana and Durrës in December 2014 on the newly-established administrative justice system in Albania...

The OSCE Presence in Albania on 4 December 2014 donated a range of academic books to the Albanian Police Academy. The recently-published books on criminology, psychology, criminal law, criminal procedure and other topics of interest for the law enforcement community will form the nucleus of the library of the Academy’s soon-to-be-established police higher education institution...

SHKODËR, Albania, 5 December 2015- Two parliamentary committees from Albania and Montenegro met on 5 December 2014 in the Albanian town of Shkodra to discuss cross-border environmental issues. The event was organized by the OSCE Presence in Albania and the OSCE Mission to Montenegro, in partnership with the parliaments of the two countries, with the aim of promoting bilateral co-operation and strengthening the legislative process on environmental issues.

Sixty high-school students from the Albanian towns of Lezha, Puka, Korça, Kukës and Peshkopi, met on 2 December 2014 with high-level state officials, including President Bujar Nishani, as part of an OSCE project aimed at strengthening the participation of citizens – especially young people – in decision-making processes at the local and central level. The goal was to enable them become active citizens, to promote a sense of civic responsibility and a better understanding of what democracy means...

KORÇA, ALBANIA, 10 September 2014 – Judges in Korça have embraced today an OSCE-supported project aimed at reducing unreasonable delays in trials, following the positive results of the project in another court in Albania...