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From January 11, 2015 the municipalities in Albania have the Agency for Regional Development as a joint platform for projects that go beyond boundaries of single municipalities.  The Agency is designed as a structure of the local governments to ensure the right approach to cooperation among municipalities and with the […]

With less than a month to the local elections of June 21, 2015 the political parties have now announced their official candidates to the new 61 municipalities.  It is quite impressive to see the increasing number of women running for Mayors.  From the vivid debates on the candidates, one of […]

Albania held the local elections for 61 new municipalities in June 21, 2015.  The results of the elections would be 61 Mayors and local councils leading now the new expanded local government units.  The voting day and the counting process went smoothly, although there were claims form both political parties […]

The June 2015 local Elections and the situation after brought in Albania, during February 25-26, a fact finding mission of the Council of Europe’s Congress of Local and Regional Authorities to assess the situation of local and regional democracy in the country. The delegation led by Mr. Jos WIENEN, the […]

AAM Executive Director, Agron Haxhimali participated in December 23, 2015 in the Workshop of the State Audit on the findings of this institution regarding local governments.  The workshop discussed on the quality of auditing and better administration of assets from the local governments. The participants reviewed the State Audit report […]