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The Serbo-Albanian Bank was founded at Cetinje in 1922, at the time Yugoslav-Albanian diplomatic relations were established, with the purpose of opening its branch offices in Albania in order to contribute to closer economic relations between the two neighboring countries. The Bank was unable to achieve its goal in the first two years of operation, as it had not obtained the necessary licenses from the Albanian authorities. The branch office in Scutari was opened only in early 1925. Another topical issue at the time was the creation of the Albanian National Bank as the central monetary institution that would function as a regulator of the entire economic life of Albania. Supported by the Yugoslav state, the Serbo-Albanian Bank planned its transformation into an Albanian central bank, but without success. Namely, it was Italian capital that assumed a leading role in the Albanian National Bank founded in September 1925. In spite of this failure, the branch office of the Serbo-Albanian Bank commenced its operations in Albania. Under its roof, it set up the Privileged Trading Agency, and expressed interest in obtaining exploration and excavation concessions for the copper mine in the region of Puka in northern Albania. It was granted the concession by the Albanian government, but failed to set up a copper exploitation company. Facing numerous difficulties, the major of which was lack of the necessary cash for operation and significant business losses in Albania, the branch office was closed in 1927, pursuant to the decision of the Cetinje headquarters.

The Serbo-Albanian Bank was founded at Cetinje in 1922, at the time Yugoslav-Albanian diplomatic relations were established, with the purpose of opening its branch offices in Albania in order to contribute to closer economic relations between the two neighboring countries. The Bank was unable to achieve its goal in the first two years of operation, as it had not obtained the necessary licenses from the Albanian authorities. The branch office in Scutari was opened only in early 1925. Another topical issue at the time was the creation of the Albanian National Bank as the central monetary institution that would function as a regulator of the entire economic life of Albania. Supported by the Yugoslav state, the Serbo-Albanian Bank planned its transformation into an Albanian central bank, but without success. Namely, it was Italian capital that assumed a leading role in the Albanian National Bank founded in September 1925. In spite of this failure, the branch office of the Serbo-Albanian Bank commenced its operations in Albania. Under its roof, it set up the Privileged Trading Agency, and expressed interest in obtaining exploration and excavation concessions for the copper mine in the region of Puka in northern Albania. It was granted the concession by the Albanian government, but failed to set up a copper exploitation company. Facing numerous difficulties, the major of which was lack of the necessary cash for operation and significant business losses in Albania, the branch office was closed in 1927, pursuant to the decision of the Cetinje headquarters.

Yugoslav policy with Albania was faced with the lack of organizations aimed at improvement of economic cooperation between the two countries particularly Yugoslav banks in Albania. Favorable circumstances for overcoming this situation appeared in 1933, when Albania, due to financial problems resulted from aggravated relations with Italy, asked Yugoslavia for help. In this respect, in December 1933 the Trade Agreement Annex was signed. One of Agreement's provisions stipulated opening of a Yugoslav bank branch office in Albania. Bank's mission was to facilitate financial and commercial transactions between the two countries. Apart from economic operations, the bank was supposed to have an important political role. It had been envisioned as an institution which would serve as a meeting point for pro-Yugoslav oriented economic and political elites in Albania. The choice was made - Belgrade Export Bank was selected to open its branch office in Tirana, in May 1934. The agreement between the Bank and Yugoslav state stipulated that the state should bear expenses of establishing and organization of the branch office, amounting up to 2 million dinars, as well as the credit for business activities in Albania, up to 8 million dinars. The Export Bank considered its commitment towards the state fulfilled by the very opening of its branch office in Tirana. Therefore its commencing activities were reduced to performing less important tasks. The Yugoslav government, on the other hand, expected the branch office to engage to a much higher extent in all business activities, especially in supplying credits for Albanian merchants. In newspaper articles and in public Albanians expressed their great pleasure in the act of opening of the bank. On the other hand, Italy was the greatest opponent to the opening of a Yugoslav bank and it tried to expel Yugoslav bank from Albania by all means. In 1934, Export Bank's branch office did not manage to find an adequate position in Albanian economic life. ; Rad se bavi osnivanjem filijale jugoslovenske Izvozne banke u Albaniji i njenom ulogom u privredno-političkim odnosima između dve države tokom 1934. godine.

The essay examines Belgrade's view on the conflict between Italian and Yugoslav communism in the stormy years between Stalin and Tito. The dialectics between these two parties, analyzed internationally and on an inter-parties basis, demonstrates how the Yugoslav government had strong doubts about the entire Italian political class, including the PCI. The question of Trieste and the Julian March had raised serious doubts about the correctness of the line brought forward by Italian communism and its leader Palmiro Togliatti. The mistrust between the two parties escalated following the Tito-Stalin split in June 1948. The essay emphasizes that Yugoslavia was always very attentive of developments in the PCI, especially in situations that could have resulted in the creation of opposition currents to the official party line.

The article aimes to present an overview of the Yugoslavian political influence in Italy from the expulsion from the Cominform till the final discharge of the pro-Yugoslavian Italian party Unione socialista indipendente. The authors based the preparation of the article on the outcomes of the Italian and post-Yugoslavian historiography and in particular on former Yugoslav archive documents. The so far developed researches about the topic have been driven by a special attention on the two members of parliament of the Italian Communist Party (Partito Comunista Italiano) Aldo Cucchi and Valdo Magnani that were expelled from their party and basically supported and funded by the Yugoslavian government. Starting from that, the current work provides a broader overview of the actions that Yugoslavia engaged in Italy and it wants also to reach a final evaluation.