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  Albania - Search View - ninemsn Encarta
Albania responded to the wave of democratization that swept across Eastern Europe at the end of the 1980s by cautiously easing restrictions on religion and foreign travel, legalizing opposition political parties, and broadening contacts with the West; diplomatic relations with the United States were resumed in March 1991 after a 51-year break.
Albania was approved as a member of the World Trade Organization in July 2000 after five years of negotiation, and in the local elections that autumn, the Socialist Party of Albania (PSS) won most seats, ending the domination of local councils by the opposition Democratic Party.
Albania’s political goal is to sign an association accord with the EU; however, in early 2004 the EU insisted that further progress with economic and political reform was required to move the process further forward.
au.encarta.msn.com /text_761561564__1/Albania.html   (5445 words)

  
 Democratic Party of Armenia
Democratic Party of Armenia was created in 1991 to help and to support the Armenian people and to create a sovereign, democratic and economically developed state based on social justice and the rule of law.
The basis of the party's platform is the theory of democratic socialism.
The economic policy of the Democratic party of Armenia is directed to ensure the stable development of the economy of the country and the well-being of its citizens.
dem_party.tripod.com   (312 words)

  
 Albania Update - European Forum
Albania is often referred to as one of the key points for illegal traffic to Western Europe, and despite obvious efforts to reverse the flow, not much seems to have improved.
The SP is the successor to the communist party, the Albanian Workers’ Party.
The party was founded in 1992 to represent Albania’s ethnic Greek population as the continuation of the Democratic Union of the Greek Minority (Omonoia), banned under the autocratic régime of Sali Berisha that was toppled in a popular uprising in 1997.
www.europeanforum.net /country/albania   (5119 words)

  
 Albania POLITICAL PARTIES
Before the 1990s, the only political party was the Communist Party, which was founded in 1941 and has been known officially as the Workers Party (Partija e Punes) since 1948.
The Albanian Democratic Front was the party's major subsidiary organization; other subsidiary groups included the Union of Albanian Working Youth and the Women's Union of Albania.
The primary political parties include the Democrats (led by Sali Berisha), a Western-style conservative party; the Democratic Alliance, a breakaway group of Democrats still largely allied with them; the Socialists (led by Fatos Nano), composed largely of former Communist Party members; and the Social Democrats, a Western-style progressive party largely allied with the socialists.
www.nationsencyclopedia.com /Europe/Albania-POLITICAL-PARTIES.html   (222 words)

  
 ALBANIA, BALKAN PENINSULA
In 1993 the country was governed by a coalition of the Democratic Party of Albania (DPA), the Social Democratic Party of Albania (SDP), the Albanian Republican Party (ARP), and independents.
Albania's relations with the Soviet bloc began to deteriorate in the mid- and late 1950s, when Hozha refused to go along with Moscow's policies of de-Stalinization, peaceful coexistence with capitalist countries, and rapprochement with Yugoslavia.
Albania in the 1980s and 1990s In December 1981 the government alleged that Premier Shehu had "committed suicide"; he was later denounced as a foreign agent, and his former supporters were purged.
www.1001medrecipes.com /mALBANIA.htm   (4529 words)

  
 Albania (10/06)
Albania's territorial integrity was confirmed at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, after U.S. President Woodrow Wilson dismissed a plan by the European powers to divide Albania among its neighbors.
Albania adhered to a strict Stalinist philosophy, eventually withdrawing from the Warsaw Pact in 1968 and alienating its final remaining ally, China, in 1978.
Albania’s public debt reached 55% of GDP in 2005, and the growing trade deficit was estimated at 21.8% of GDP in 2005.
www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/3235.htm   (3793 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Socialist International   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Its members include The Labour Party (United Kingdom), SPD (Germany), the Democratic Socialists of America (USA), the Australian Labor Party, and New Democratic Party (Canada).
The Party of European Socialists, a party active in the European Parliament, is an associated organization of the Socialist International.
The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia - Social Democratic Union of Macedonia
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Socialist_International   (565 words)

  
 REC: Strategic Environmental Issues, vol. 2: Albania
The position of the Green Party in Albania is illustrative as well: it has no representatives in the Parliament and it is not considered to be a serious partner by the other parties.
Due to the present enormity of the economic and social problems in Albania the development of the economy is the leading priority among politicians, the government and the public.
Albania faces an enormous growth in automobile use and needs assistance to tackle the problems that occur in relation to this growth, e.g., air pollution and insufficient infrastructure." Another issue that was mentioned was ecological agriculture.
www.rec.org /REC/Publications/StratIssues/FeeBased/Albania.html   (4980 words)

  
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This was an option that was intensely debated in the 1998 “all-party” talks in early 1998(Political Handbook 447) Republic of Albania The Republic of Albania is one of the smallest and least advanced of European nation.
The Executive branch consists of The chief of state, President of the Republic Rexhep Meidani (Socialist Party of Albania) was elected in 1997 to a five year term elected by the Peoples Assembly due to the resignation of former Democratic Party president Sali Berisha.
This party is headed by the president and Prime Minster and is located on the left of the political spectrum.
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 Albania - Multiparty System
One of the founders of the party was the thirty-five-year-old Gramoz Pashko, a physician and a former APL member and son of a former government official.
The party's newspaper, Rilindja Demokratike, was outspoken in its political commentary.
Several other opposition parties with reform platforms were formed; they include the Agrarian Party, the Ecology Party, the National Unity Party, and the Social Democratic Party.
countrystudies.us /albania/141.htm   (988 words)

  
 ATA News from Albania (96-06-12)
Different from other ex -communist parties of Eastern Europe, as the Hungarian party for instance, it not only was not dispersed, but on the contrary preferred to neglect the problem if its inheritance leaving this sort of analysis to the future.
After the statement of the American government and European institutions for the partial rerun of elections in Albania, it may happened that one day socialists will decide to enter the new Albanian parliament and they will be aware that they had the possibility to be presented by a number of deputies three times higher.
The Chairman of the Democratic Party (DP), Tritan Shehu, welcomed today in an interview with ATA the statement of the European Union (EU) for the continuation of the electoral process in Albania.
www.hri.org /news/balkans/ata/1996/96-06-12.ata.html   (2669 words)

  
 Human Rights Watch: Publications: Europe and Central Asia : Albania   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Albania inventoried its stockpiled mines and in May 2000 reported having 1,607,420 mines stored in 120 depots in the country.
At the center of the dispute is the treatment of the Greek minority living in Albania and this report documents their situation.
In advance of Albania’s first contested elections under Communist rule on March 31, we took part in a fact-finding mission from March 7 to March 12 as part of the first team of independent human rights investigators to have officially visited the country.
hrw.org /reports/world/albania-pubs.php   (766 words)

  
 Albanian Tragedy - La Forge
In the course of the work of the multilateral meeting which was held this month, the delegation of the Communist Party of Albania was invited to give their point of view on the causes of the collapse of Albania.
There are two fundamental causes for the tragedy which Albania is experiencing today: one the one hand there is the treason of the PLA (Party of Labor of Albania) and on the other hand there external pressure.
The multilateral meeting of the parties took the decision to wage a campaign of concrete solidarity with the communists of Albania in order to give them means of expressing themselves.
www.mltranslations.org /Albania/tragfrg.htm   (1002 words)

  
 Destruction in Albania
A leader of the Democrats, the economist Gramoz Pashko, said that the zero point theory must be carried through and that we must begin the work with a blank check that the West would write for us.
During the years in which the Democratic Party government has been in power, the former communists, the heroes of the people, the political opposition have been slandered, persecuted and imprisoned.
In these days through which Albania is suffering, there are emerging dangerous contradictions on the side of the state power, namely that the state power made decisions that conflict with Albanian reality, in which heroes are labelled as criminals and criminals as heroes.
www.mltranslations.org /Albania/destrtm.htm   (1306 words)

  
 Albania - The Inside Story
During 1996 the social climate became explosive due to the failure of almost all economic activity, the crisis of education, the failure to pay pensions, mass unemployment, the lack of goods of prime necessity and the fall in living standards generally.
The popular anger surfaced on the 26th May, 1996, during the rigged elections, when the headquarters of the Democratic Party, as well as police stations and the buildings of other state organisations were burnt to the ground.
The Communist Party of Albania responded with an appeal headed, 'Hands off Albania,' which was immediately signed by the Communist Party of Denmark (M-L), the Federation of Democratic Workers' Associations of Turkey, the Communist Workers' Party of France, the Communist Party of Germany and the Revolutionary Organisation of Norway.
www.revolutionarydemocracy.org /rdv4n1/albania.htm   (1197 words)

  
 Albanian Telegraphic Agency (ATA), 97-06-08
The first eight parties are signers of the political contract of May 9, which says that the election law should be a mix between the majority system and proportional representation.
The Democratic Party condemned on Saturday through a statement the initiative of the Socialist Party to the Constitutional Court, because the SP request is a punishment for the small parties, and it considered ridiculous this act also for the very fact that it was SP that made the original proposal of this formula.
The parties in position and those in opposition after the elections must establish such relations of cooperation so that all the Albanians feel themselves members of the great process of the economic and institutional recovey of the country, of the construction of a genuine rule of law, said Mr Fino.
www.hri.org /news/balkans/ata/1997/97-06-08.ata.html   (3837 words)

  
 Politics of Albania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The President is elected to a 5-year term by the Assembly of the Republic of Albania by secret ballot, requiring a two-thirds majority of the votes of all deputies.
The Assembly of the Republic of Albania (Kuvendi i Republikës së Shqipërisë) is the lawmaking body in Albania.
Source: OSCE The candidates of the Alliance for Freedom, Justice and Welfare (Aliansa për Liri, Drejtësi dhe Mirëqenie;;, Republican Party of Albania and allies) supported the candidates of the PDS in the constituencies, as did some of the informal PS allie with the PS candidates.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Politics_of_Albania   (871 words)

  
 List of political parties in Albania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Albania has a multi-party system, with two or three strong parties and a third party that is electorally successful.
Democratic Party of Albania (Partia Demokratike e Shqipërisë) - Sali Berisha
Social Democratic Party of Albania (Partia Socialdemokrate e Shqipërisë) - Skënder Gjinushi
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_Albania   (436 words)

  
 ALBANIA: parliamentary elections Kuvendi Popullor, 1997
The previous (May/June 1996) general elections had led to the overwhelming victory of the Democratic Party (PDS) of President of the Republic Sali Berisha.
Bashkim Fino of the opposition Socialist Party (PSS) as the new Prime Minister and successor to Mr.
Altogether 23 parties and 1050 candidates vied for the enlarged Assembly’s 155 seats (formerly 140), which had been increased pursuant to a new Electoral Law approved on 16 May. The ruling PDS, headed by Mr.
www.ipu.org /parline-e/reports/arc/2001_97.htm   (475 words)

  
 Leftist Parties of Albania   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
2002 by faction of Communist Party (PKSH) and Party of United Communists (PKBSH), led by Muharrem Xhafa
1941, until 1991 Labour Party of Albania (Partia e Punës e Shqipërisë), led by Edi Rama
Albanian Ecological Party (Partia Ekologjike Shqiptare), Albanian New Socialist Party (Partia e Re Socialiste), Social Workers Party of Albania (Partia Social Punëtore ë Shqipërisë, PSP)
www.broadleft.org /al.htm   (128 words)

  
 Albania: Country Studies - Federal Research Division, Library of Congress
Albania: Country Studies - Federal Research Division, Library of Congress
National Awakening and the Birth of Albania, 1876-1918
Social and Economic Conditions after World War I
lcweb2.loc.gov /frd/cs/altoc.html   (108 words)

  
 Social Democratic Parties of the World   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Party of Socialists and Democrats (Partito dei Socialisti e dei Democratici), San Marino
Social Democratic Party of Switzerland / Socialist Party of Switzerland (Sozialdemokratische Partei der Schweiz / Parti Socialiste Suisse / Partito Socialista Svizzero, SP/PS), associated to PES
African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (Partido Africano da Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde, PAIGC)
www.broadleft.org /socdem.htm   (524 words)

  
 Appeal
Vice President of the Social Democratic Party, MP (Albania)
Member of the European Parliament, European People Party (United Kingdom)
Member of the Scottish Parliament (Liberal Democrats) (United Kingdom)
chechen.radicalparty.org /appeal/all.php   (164 words)

  
 Governments on the WWW: Albania
Ministria e Punës e Çështjeve Sociale [Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs]
Partia Demokratike e Shqipërisë (PD) [Democratic Party of Albania]
Aleanca Demokratike e Shqipërisë [Democratic Alliance of Albania]
www.gksoft.com /govt/en/al.html   (252 words)

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