{"id":9680,"date":"2021-04-03T13:57:40","date_gmt":"2021-04-03T13:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=9680"},"modified":"2021-04-03T13:57:40","modified_gmt":"2021-04-03T13:57:40","slug":"german-chancellor-merkel-congratulates-kurti-on-becoming-prime-minister-of-kosovo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/german-chancellor-merkel-congratulates-kurti-on-becoming-prime-minister-of-kosovo\/","title":{"rendered":"German Chancellor Merkel congratulates Kurti on becoming Prime Minister of Kosovo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>German Chancellor Angela Merkel has congratulated Albin Kurti for his post as the new Prime Minister of Kosovo by telegram.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by local media KosovaPress, Merkel told Kurti that he has difficult challenges ahead and reiterated Germany\u2019s partnership and support for Kosovo.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the German chancellor brought up the topic of the pandemic and the government\u2019s objectives on reforms over the rule of law, as well as fighting corruption and organized crime.<\/p>\n<p>Also, Merkel weighed in on the importance of dialogue with Serbia mediated by the European Union.<\/p>\n<p><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/kosovo\/2021\/04\/03\/albin-kurti-and-vjosa-osmani-back-down-from-general-elections-law\/\">Albin Kurti and Vjosa Osmani back down from General Elections Law<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/kosovo\/2021\/04\/03\/electing-the-president-abdixhiku-albin-kurti-aims-to-create-political-instability\/\">Electing the president, Abdixhiku: Albin Kurti aims to create political instability<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/kosovo\/2021\/04\/02\/pm-kurti-we-need-to-choose-the-president-or-else-were-heading-to-elections\/\">PM Kurti: We need to choose the president, or else we\u2019re heading to elections<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German Chancellor Angela Merkel has congratulated Albin Kurti for his post as the new Prime Minister of Kosovo by telegram. As reported by local media KosovaPress, Merkel told Kurti that he has difficult challenges ahead and reiterated Germany\u2019s partnership and support for Kosovo. Furthermore, the German chancellor brought up the topic of the pandemic and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":9681,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[163],"tags":[151],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>German Chancellor Merkel congratulates Kurti on becoming Prime Minister of Kosovo - Euronews Albania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/german-chancellor-merkel-congratulates-kurti-on-becoming-prime-minister-of-kosovo\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"German Chancellor Merkel congratulates Kurti on becoming Prime Minister of Kosovo - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"German Chancellor Angela Merkel has congratulated Albin Kurti for his post as the new Prime Minister of Kosovo by telegram. 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