This paper aims to examine the phenomena of corruption and money laundering, outlining the relationship of “continuity” running between them. The analysis presented here focuses on the evolution of modern criminal networks and their methods in recent years. The results highlight the points of conver…

The New Pact on Migration and Asylum presented by the European Commission on 23 September 2020 aimes at representing a new start with regard to the whole of issues related to the management of the challenges posed by migrants, refugees and asylum seekers arriving in the European Union. High expectat…

The “Joint Investigation Teams” (JITs) are a new and effective tool for cooperation in criminal matters, based on a “spirit of solidarity” in carrying out cross-borders criminal investigations: synergistic forms of cooperation between both judicial andpolice authorities of the different Member State…

The article aims to retrace the role of the Council of Europe (CoE) in the fight against corruption. The analysis focuses on the institution of the Group of States against Corruption (GRECO), mandated to monitoring and evaluating the implementation of CoE instruments in subiecta materia, according t…

The United Nations are long-term active in the fight against corruption, a phenomenon troubling developed and undeveloped nations alike. Quite recently, through GA Resolution no. 75/194, asset recovery eventually gained new momentum, with a series of recommendations towards the UN Member States. Hen…

The Constitution of the Republic of Albania, adopted in 1998, provided that the Supreme Court had primary and cassation jurisdiction. Primary jurisdiction referred to the obligation attributed to this Court to judge at first instance, the most important figures of the political and judicial power. A…

This article aims to underline how the Western Balkans are an area of fundamental geo-strategic interest for the security inside and outside Europe. Its geostrategic importance was even more evident when, since 2015, the Western Balkans havebeen crossed by one of the most impressive migratory routes…

EU membership accentuates values. The current emphasis is a case of EU idealism, of stricter conditionality in response to political ideology and governance. Democracy is tantamount to liberal democracy, but at the same time pluralism is an integral part of the conditionality. This raises the questi…

Punimi trajton temën e imigracionit nga pikëpamja e zbatimit të sanksioneve penale si një rezultat i shkeljes së rregullave që e qeverisin atë. Analiza fillon me demonstrimin e papërshtatshmërisë së sistemit të pritjes së migrantëve të përgatitur nga BashkimiEvropian (Rregullorja e Dublinit), me çës…

"Gjergj Kastrioti-Scanderbeg (1405-17.01.1468) is the most important national hero and the greatest strategist and statesman of Albanians who led the war for freedom against the Ottoman occupation for the political-national union of the Albanians.2The many frequent military victories glorified Scand…

In the Additional Fund of the British Library manuscripts in London, there are a considerable number of handwritten codices (nearly 451) of Epirote origin.1 At this point, four codices from the British Library have been identified2 that were written or used in the city of Berat: from the British Lib…

There are, in my view, three aspects to the history of Skenderbeg in the United States that need to be considered in order to put this topic into its proper perspective. These are, first, the propagation of the deeds and exploits of Albania’s national hero into Europe, and more specifically into Eng…