Europe Albania No girls under the age of 18 were married in Albania in 2022, the first time since the registration of marriages began
Europe Albania Unemployment, poverty, and disillusionment with the political elite is emptying small Albanian towns and villages of people, with the young mostly moving abroad; a trend growing in 2023 according to the first statistics issued
Europe Albania The country has declared the Vjosa basin, Europe's last unspoilt river, a nature park; the 13.000-hectare area will be subjected to high protection regulation
Europe Albania Albania ranked first in Europe as country with highest number of remittances from EU countries in 2021, totalling more than €1 billion; it is the highest amount in Europe in relation to country's population, amounting to approximately 6,7% of GDP
Europe Albania There have been a total of three anti-government protests so far in the past week, with opposition and supporters calling for the prime minister's resignation and attempting to disrupt the parliamentary session
Europe Albania Concern is growing in Albania over the privacy of a 'virtual community' app offered by the ruling Socialist Party and, with local elections approaching, over whether it is actually 'voluntary' as the party claims
Europe Albania For 2023, Albania ranks third in Europe after Russia and Serbia for the most expensive apartment prices relative to income, according to data from Numbeo
Europe Albania Thirty years after establishing diplomatic relations between Albania and Ukraine, Foreign Minister Olta Xhacka announced the opening of an embassy in Kiev, a decision officially confirmed by the Council of Ministers
Europe Albania A 70-year-old woman from northern Albania, File Kola, is one of the few to make the ancestral dress called Xhubleta, which UNESCO recently included in the Intangible Cultural Heritage List
Europe Albania Albania joins Serbia in agreeing to offer Chinese citizens visa-free travel – the only two countries in the region to do this
Europe Albania The overproduction of olive oil in 2022 can be a boomerang for the country: as oil has been marketed at lower prices, harvesters and mills are considering reducing capacity and production
Europe Albania More than half of Albanians said they had been asked for a bribe, while half admitted to giving one: these are the highest rates in the region, according to a new report on corruption by Southeast European Leadership for Development and Integration