The Deputy Prime Minister Belinda Balluku, also Minister of Infrastructure and Energy, took to the social media on Tuesday to share images from the site, saying construction work has advanced and was running on schedule.

“Work is advancing on finalizing the Tirana-Durres highway expansion project,” Balluku wrote.

The expansion project is designed to refurbish end-of-life road layers and expand the road to handle rising traffic especially during the summer season.

The road will be transformed into Category A highway with speed limit at 130 km/hour.

Tirana-Durres highway rehabilitation is designed to cope with an influx of 94 000 vehicles and it costs 250 million euros.

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Israel and Albania began to cooperate on cybersecurity after Iranian hackers damaged the Balkan country’s digital infrastructure in a series of attacks in October.

Albania severed its ties with Iran and has been vocal in European Union deliberations to designate the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terror organization.

Balluku and Cohen also discussed the possibility of opening direct flights between Tel Aviv and Tirana.

Cohen also expressed interest in paying a reciprocal visit to Albania.

Balluku, who also serves as Minister of Infrastructure and Energy, met separately with Minister of Transport and National Infrastructure Miri Regev. The two discussed issues of mass transportation.

Most of Albania’s Jewish population moved to Israel in the 1990s as Communism collapsed in Eastern Europe.

In 2020, Albania drew attention for becoming the first Muslim country to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of anti-Semitism.

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