Thaci and Berisha Dine in The Big Apple

balkan insight
20 SEP 2011 / 14:27

Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha and Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci attended a working dinner in New York together last night ahead of the 66th general assembly meeting of the United Nations.

Maryrose Fison London...more...
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Comedy Bridges Language Gulf Between Two Albanias

balkan insight
15 JUL 2011 / 10:25

A new hit sketch in Albania is using humour to tackle the divide between Albanians from Albania and those from Kosovo.

Marjola Rukaj
A comedy show on one of the most watched television stations among Albanians has put the cultural and linguistic chasm between Albanians in Albania and those in Kosovo under the spotlight.

“Xheneriku dhe Kosovari” (“The mechanic and the Kosovar”) takes place in the variety show Portokalli every Sunday on Tirana’s Top Channel....more....
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Kosovo, Albania may form “economic union”

serbianna.com

July 11, 2011 – 4:54 am

Source: Tanjug

TIRANA — Kosovo Deputy PM Behgjet Pacolli and Trade Minister Mimoza Kusari-Lila have come up with an idea to create a common economic space between Kosovo and Albania....more...
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Kosovo, Albania resolve customs disagreement

se times
04/07/2011

Customs co-operation between Albania and Kosovo can serve the economic development of both countries.
By Linda Karadaku for Southeast European Times in Pristina – 04/07/11
At a meeting discussing economic co-operation between Kosovo and Albania, Kosovo Deputy Prime Minister Mimoza Kusari Lila and Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha decided to remove customs fees that are frustrating Kosovo exporters. Building the 34km of road from Fierza to Koman in northern Albania was also discussed....more....
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Nationalists Resurrect Dream of Great Albania

balkan insight
30 JUN 2011 / 18:12

Rise of nationalist parties in Albania and Kosovo puts unification of Albanian lands back on some people’s agenda.

Petrit Collaku Pristina...more...
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Albania Plans Common Textbooks with Kosovo

balkan insight
06 Jun 2011 / 09:03

Albania's Minister of Education announced in a meeting with his Kosovo counterpart on Friday that both countries would work on producing joint textbooks for first-graders.

Besar Likmeta

Tirana
“We will soon have textbooks on the market for children abroad [outside Albania], based on a common programme,” the Albanian Education Minister, Myqerem Tafaj, said.....more...

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Demaci warns about possible union of Kosovo and Albania

serbianna

March 16, 2011 – 8:01 am
Source: Tanjug,14 March 2011Human rights activist from Kosovo Adem Demaci said Sunday that a union of Kosovo and Albania could very easily become reality if Serbia does not change its stance on Kosovo.Albanians could unite, we cannot rule out that possibility if Serbia continues its current policy toward Pristina. If Albanians show they are organized, a national union will become reality, Demaci told Albanian-language electronic media.
Demaci said he opposes the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue, which started in Brussels, claiming that the talks are not what the majority of Kosovo’s people want.
Kosovo was forced into the dialogue by the EU and the UN, Demaci said.

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