German Minister for Europe Visits Tirana Today

German Minister for Europe Anna Luhrmann visits Albania for the first time today after taking office.

She will talk during meetings with authorities in Tirana on climate protection and Albania's role as a member of the UN Security Council.

As it becomes known, the minister will meet with Prime Minister Edi Rama (PS) and with Deputy Foreign Minister Maggie Fino. Apart from civil society representatives, the minister will meet with Albert Han, chairman of the Regional Youth Co-operation Bureau (RYCO)

Northern Macedonia and Albania are the first two countries, after France in December, to be visited by the German minister of Europe since his arrival in office in December last year.

A testimony that the new government among greens, Social Democrats and liberals, as expressed in the coalition agreement, takes seriously the region's European perspective.

Since its first participation in the regular meeting of the Council of Ministers of Europe on 14 December in Brussels, Luhrmann called for the launch of intergovernmental conferences with the two countries.

Luhrmann is 38 years old and her appointment to the post of minister for Europe, a post this without portfolio was Foreign Minister Annalena Bayerbox's decision. Earlier she was a professor in Geteborg, but politics has started since her youth.

In 2002, she was the youngest deputy in Bundestag, being only 19 years old.