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  OSCE Presence helps Albania strengthen fight against money laundering and corruption
Publishing date: 31 October 2025
                Content type:  News
                    Where we are: OSCE Presence in Albania
                    What we do: Economic activities, Good governance, Policing
                
      Prosecutors, investigators and law enforcement officials from across Albania came together in Lalëz on 29–30 October 2025 for a two-day training on anti-money laundering and anti-corruption measures. Organized by the OSCE Presence, the course aimed to strengthen Albania’s institutional and operational capacities to investigate complex financial crimes.
                    
        
OSCE Presence in Albania organizes 11th annual Media Development Forum
Publishing date: 29 October 2025
                Content type:  News
                    
                    
                
       On 29 October, the OSCE Presence in Albania organized the 11th annual Media Development Forum, which brought together important decision-makers and experts to address two important priorities for Albania’s media landscape: transparency of media ownership and the institutional independence of public
                    
        
OSCE Enhances Regional Border Security in South-Eastern Europe with Training-of-Trainers for Forensic Document Experts in Tirana
Publishing date: 9 October 2025
                Content type:  News
                    Where we are: OSCE Presence in Albania, OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Transnational Threats Department, OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Mission to Skopje
                    What we do: Border management
                
      Thirteen forensic document experts from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and North Macedonia strengthened their technical expertise and training skills at a training-of-trainers course organized by the OSCE Transnational Threats Department, in close co-operation with the OSCE Presence in Albania, Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Mission to Skopje from 06 to 10 October in Tirana, Albania.
                    
        
Austrian and Albanian judges exchange experiences on administrative justice with OSCE Presence’s support
Publishing date: 3 October 2025
                
        
      A delegation of 29 Austrian judges- members of the European Association of Administrative Judges and the Austrian Association of Administrative Judges- carried out a two-day study visit to Albania, on 2 and 3 October 2025, with the support of the OSCE Presence. The programme introduced the delegation to key Albanian justice institutions and concluded with a high-level roundtable on comparative perspectives of administrative justice between Albania and Austria.
                    
        
OSCE regional workshop in Durrës focused on nexus between drug trafficking and violent crime
Publishing date: 10 September 2025
                Content type:  News
                    Where we are: OSCE Presence in Albania, Transnational Threats Department
                    
                
       The OSCE Presence in Albania, with support from the OSCE Transnational Threats Department/Strategic Police Matters Unit and the United States Department of Justice’s International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program (ICITAP), organized a two-day regional workshop on the nexus between
                    
        
OSCE field operations foster regional inter-municipal co-operation against domestic and gender-based violence
Publishing date: 16 July 2025
                Content type:  News
                    Where we are: OSCE Presence in Albania, OSCE Mission in Kosovo, OSCE Mission to Skopje
                    What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution, Gender equality
                
      Around 50 representatives from municipalities, law enforcement, judiciary, social services and civil society from Kukës and Dragash/Dragaš gathered in Kukës to strengthen co-operation in addressing domestic and gender-based violence, on 16 July 2025.
                    
        
Constitutional Court in co-operation with the OSCE Presence in Albania publishes Volume II of the Guide on Constitutional Court Case Law 1992–2024
Publishing date: 25 June 2025
                Content type:  News
                    Where we are: OSCE Presence in Albania
                    
                
       Following the publication of the Volume I of the Guide on Constitutional Court Case Law in February 2024, focusing on individual constitutional complaints for the period 1998–2023, the Constitutional Court of Albania, in co‑operation with the OSCE Presence in Albania, released on 24 June 2025 the