Authorities in Albania have requested assistance from the European Union to help tackle wildfires in the south of the country. Interior Minister Taulant Balla said on Thursday the government has asked for help from the European Commission’s Emergency Response Coordination Centre (ERCC). “We are in contact with the Centre of the European Mechanism of Solidarity through which we would like to continue the fight from the air because, as we have seen, it is almost impossible to intervene at a great part of the existing fire locations,” he said. Balla said it was “impossible” for the country’s fire…