Albania is now a member of the European Civil Protection Mechanism under an agreement signed on Friday 18 November in Tirana by the European Commissioner for Crisis Management, Janez Lenarčič, and Albanian Defence Minister Niko Peleshi.
Albania was already a beneficiary of the urgent assistance in kind offered by this European solidarity mechanism, as are all countries in the world that request it in the event of a large-scale natural or man-made disaster that exceeds their capacity to...