Tirana Times

This Auditorium Comes With a Price Tag -Corruption in Albania’s Public Universities

Corruption remains one of Albania’s most stubborn obstacles toward development and its dream for European integration. Although the country marked its biggest historical leap in Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index for the

2 weeks ago

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Culture·News·Social Issues

Pushing Against Inertia: How Harnex Is Testing the Balkans’ Appetite for Innovation

Tirana loves a good spectacle. Walk through the capital today and you are greeted by sleek new glass towers, vibrant urban spaces, and a relentless political chorus proclaiming Albania as the next

2 months ago

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News

Saudi Arabia’s Yemen Action: Between Deterrence, Diplomacy, and Regional Responsibility

The latest Saudi action in Yemen should be understood not as escalation for its own sake, but as part of a broader strategic approach that combines deterrence with diplomacy, aimed at safeguarding

6 months ago

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Blowing whistles and deaf ears

Editorial

The long, tedious and conflict-stricken relationship between the right-wing administration currently in power and the Top Media company has culminated recently in the later receiving a penalty of around 13 million euro,

19 years ago

3 mins read

Church on the Defensive

Op-Ed

“There is nothing so small that can not be blown out of proportion” says Ruckert’s law. This probably describes the way the Albanian Orthodox Church must be feeling lately. In the last

19 years ago

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Kosovo’s turnaround – still a work in progress

Op-Ed

By the numbers, it is on par with some of Africa’s poorest countries – an extremely high infant mortality rate of 35 per 1000 live births, plus a rising unemployment rate of

19 years ago

4 mins read

Vejvoda awarded Star of Italian Solidarity for improving Serb-Italian relations

News

On July 5, the Italian government decorated Ivan Vejvoda, executive director of the Balkan Trust for Democracy, with the Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity, second rank (Comendatore) at the Italian

19 years ago

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Rice, U.S. Secretary of State, speaks to BBC about Albania and Kosovo; urges election of consensual president

News

“Elections are very important for a democratic society and the way the country carries out the elections will be decisive for the integration process towards NATO and The EU,” according to U.S.

19 years ago

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Intense heat blamed for low water levels, resulting in Albania’s water and power outages

News

TIRANA, July 19 – Hot weather in the last week has blanketed the entire country with temperatures averaging more than 35 degrees. Hot weather, and the accompanying decrease in river water, has

19 years ago

1 min read

Slain Albanian bricklayer called man in the wrong place at wrong time

News

A judge said yesterday that Prel Marku, 23, a bricklayer from Shkrode, Albania, was “an entirely innocent man” unconnected to the criminal rivalry behind the shooting at the social club in Britian’s

19 years ago

1 min read

EU Rebukes Albania Over Police Officers

News

July 18, 2007 — A European Commission team criticized Albania’s center-right government today for firing many of the police officers the EU spent months training. Members of the Police Assistance Mission of

19 years ago

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Bamir Topi elected new Albania’s president following break in opposition ranks

News

TIRANA, July 20 – Bamir Topi, deputy governing Democratic party leader, was elected Friday as Albania’s new president with the help of opposition lawmakers who broke their coalition’s boycott and voted for

19 years ago

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Fear from snap elections

News

TIRANA, July 20 – Many analysts believed that election of the new president would be a last-minute solution but they also added that the prolonged parliamentary electoral process had seriously damaged the

19 years ago

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Sculptor chosen for memorial statue to Arbnori

Culture

TIRANA, July.9- A national competition has selected sculptor Sadik Spahia to create a statue memorializing the Albanian anti-communist, Pjeter Arbnori. Arbnori was a staunch anti communist who was imprisoned for his political

19 years ago

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Tirana Times

This Auditorium Comes With a Price Tag -Corruption in Albania’s Public Universities

Saudi Arabia’s Yemen Action: Between Deterrence, Diplomacy, and Regional Responsibility

Blowing whistles and deaf ears

Church on the Defensive

Kosovo’s turnaround – still a work in progress

Vejvoda awarded Star of Italian Solidarity for improving Serb-Italian relations

Rice, U.S. Secretary of State, speaks to BBC about Albania and Kosovo; urges election of consensual president

Intense heat blamed for low water levels, resulting in Albania’s water and power outages

Slain Albanian bricklayer called man in the wrong place at wrong time

EU Rebukes Albania Over Police Officers

Bamir Topi elected new Albania’s president following break in opposition ranks

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Sculptor chosen for memorial statue to Arbnori

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