Albania is not "East Europe", but South East. Same as Greece.
Some of my fellow Romanians will also claim they're Central European, but in my mind, all the ones I listed are Eastern European countries. I'd even include Turkey and Kazakhstan in there, part of the latter is to the West of the Urals, which is what we normally consider the border between Europe and Asia.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/382295560/figure/fi...
https://www.worldatlas.com/r/w960-q80/upload/03/90/9b/countr...
Albania is clearly south east europe.
And, I don't care about your random Romanian friend's anecdote.
Yes, it is clearly south east Europe. East.
> And, I don't care about your random Romanian friend's anecdote.
Who's my friend?