The bones of 573 Greek soldiers that fell in the mountains of Albania during the 1940-1941 Greco-Italian war, at the start of WWII, will finally be laid to rest on Friday and receive a proper burial after 70 years, during a funeral ceremony to be held at a new Greek military cemetery in Kelcyra, Albania at noon.

An Albanian "historian" claimed Greek people did not exist in modern-day Greece during a live show on one of Albania’s top TV talk shows. In her hyper-nationalistic, anti-Greek rant, which was apparently influenced by an old piece by satirical publication “The Onion”,

Denmark, France and the Netherlands have postponed the start of FYROM's and Albania's accession negotiations with the EU. This was stated by Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias, coming out of the General Affairs Council in Luxembourg.