TIRANA, Sept. 24 – A new concession that the ruling Socialists intend to award in the oil industry has come under fire from the main opposition Democrats and raised question marks whether the new public private partnership, the second in
TIRANA, Sept. 24 – Albanian police and the Serious Crimes Prosecution announced on Monday the attack on one of the country’s most dangerous criminal groups – the ‘Bajri’ group, which operated mainly in the North of the country but had
TIRANA, Sept. 22 – The Serious Crimes Prosecution announced on Friday the court has accepted its request to seize 29 assets of various kinds from the so-called ‘Habilaj Group’, Albanian brothers from Vlora accused of being involved in narcotics trafficking
By Ervin Lisaku TIRANA, Sept. 21 – Ruling majority MPs paved the way for Albania’s third Eurobond issue this week and expect the country to raise up to €500 million next October when it taps international markets. In a parliamentary
TIRANA, Sept. 19 – Albania’s Socialist majority in the Parliamentary Committee of Productive Activities voted on Tuesday for amendments in the law for the building of a new National Theatre building, opening a competition for the realization of this project
By Alba Cela Jan Claude Juncker has come a long way in these few years from the first time he took over the Commission and delivered a Bush-patterned ‘read my lips- no more enlargement’ statement. In the latest EU State
TIRANA, Sept. 20 – As the country’s Socialist majority put on the vote President Ilir Meta’s decree on the new National Theatre building accompanied by a few amendments on Thursday in parliament, the opposition marked its fourth absence since the
TIRANA, Sept. 20 – Germany’s Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said that June 2019 doesn’t mean automatic opening of accession negotiations for Albania, during his meeting in Tirana with Albanian counterpart Ditmir Bushati. “On June this year a heuristic decision was
TIRANA TIMES EDITORIAL The controversial dispute for the demolition of the National Theatre and the building of a new modern one continues today in the Assembly of Albania. The hastily introduced law was returned by the President and needs to
TIRANA, Sept. 20 – Albania has managed to attract only about a tenth of the inward foreign direct investment stock in the Western Balkans in an FDI race that is led by Serbia, the region’s largest economy. IMF research shows
