This is the news from Monday 10 March.

Prime Minister and Socialist Party leader, Edi Rama, declared today that he may not be on the list of candidates for deputies in the May 11 elections, unless he gets the necessary votes. In the meeting with deputies on Monday, Rama said that current deputies will be on the party’s winning list if they receive the necessary votes.

The leader of the Democratic Party, Sali Berisha, officially presented today the coalition of opposition parties called “PD – Alliance for a Greater Albania”. This coalition consists of 26 political parties and Berisha declared that the opposition’s program aims to increase the country’s economy within the first mandate.

In Kosovo, the incumbent Prime Minister, Albin Kurti, says he will once again lead the new government that emerged from the February elections. Currently, Albin Kurti’s Vetevendosje has won 42% of the vote, or 48 seats out of 120 in the Assembly. Vetevendosje leaders say they want to form a government with Serb minority, without Srpska Lista in the coalition.

The European Investment Bank, the main banking institution of the European Union, will soon open an office in Albania. The Economy Committee in parliament approved the agreement that paves the way for cooperation on the methods of financing and loans that the bank provides to candidate countries for the European Union.