News: Albania World Press Freedom Index

Albanian Prime Minister, Edi Rama, said that cases of media intimidation by the Albanian government reported by the World Press Freedom Index of 2021 would be "lies" and "fantasy". The new report of the WPFI has placed Albania at position 130, 20 positions below last year. Pavol Szalai, Director of the European Union and Balkan Office, said that Albania scored so low in part because of the different survey methodology compared to 2020, and partly because of the improvement of the situation in Serbia and North Macedonia. However, Szalai continued, "in the period measured by the index, press freedom has clearly deteriorated in Albania."