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 months 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

4 months ago

4 mins read

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

8 months ago

7 mins read

IMF warns of PPP, arrears risks to Albania’s mid-term growth outlook

Business & Economy·Main·Premium

TIRANA, Jan. 29 – The International Monetary Fund has reiterated its warning over the growing use of public private partnerships and the accumulation of new unpaid government bills to the private sector

8 years ago

6 mins read

Albanian football association in legal battle with gov’t over ‘denied’ UEFA tax refunds

Free to Read·Main·Premium·Sport

By Ervin Lisaku TIRANA, Jan. 30 – Failure to settle amicably a tax dispute on the under-construction National Arena stadium, the new home of Albania’s national side in the Albanian capital city

8 years ago

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Albania to apply “tough imprisonment” measures after Italian model

News

TIRANA, Jan. 30 – Approximately 270 convicts in Albania, suspected or convicted as members of criminal networks, are expected to soon undergo a special regime which will keep them isolated and unable

8 years ago

2 mins read

Socialists reject president’s security adviser as head of State Supreme Audit

News

TIRANA, Jan. 30 – A majority of the Economy Commission’s Socialist Party members rejected on Tuesday Bahri Shaqiri as the head of the State Supreme Audit due to lack of experience in

8 years ago

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HPC prosecutor denies proof of ties with former communist State Security bodies

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TIRANA, Jan. 29 – Albanian prosecutor Bujar Sheshi, also member of the newly established High Prosecutorial Council, denied on Monday that he was a recruit of communist former State Security structures before

8 years ago

4 mins read

First Japanese language lab set up in Albania

Culture

TIRANA, Jan. 29 – Japan has donated around €42,000 to set up a Japanese language lab at the Polytechnic University of Tirana, one of the country’s largest public universities offering IT and

8 years ago

2 mins read

Transport operators handle less freight, more passengers

Business & Economy

TIRANA, Jan. 29 – Maritime, air and rail operators in Albania faced mixed results in 2018 when freight transport declined and the handling of passengers only significantly increased for the country’s sole

8 years ago

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Drug trafficking to regional neighbors persists

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TIRANA, Jan. 29 – Gjirokastra Border Police arrested seven people at Drite village, next to the Albanian-Greek border, when it found and sequestered around 700 kilos of marijuana inside a building on

8 years ago

2 mins read

Transparency International: Albania leads perceptions for the region’s most corrupt

News

TIRANA, Jan. 29 – Albania led Balkan countries in Transparency International’s latest report on perceived levels of public-sector corruption, which described the perception for the region as “highly corrupt” with below-average scores.

8 years ago

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Protests force authorities to back off from HPP, oil search plans at protected areas

Business & Economy·Main·Premium

TIRANA, Jan. 28 – Protests by local residents and environmentalists over the construction of a small hydropower plant next to a protected Canyon and oil search plans at a national park have

8 years ago

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Albania remains ‘moderately free’ as it climbs 13 steps in economic freedom

Business & Economy·Free to Read

TIRANA, Jan. 28 – Albania climbed 13 steps to rank one of the Western Balkans’ best performing countries in economic freedom, but remained ‘moderately free,’ according to the 2019 index of economic

8 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

IMF warns of PPP, arrears risks to Albania’s mid-term growth outlook

Albanian football association in legal battle with gov’t over ‘denied’ UEFA tax refunds

Albania to apply “tough imprisonment” measures after Italian model

Socialists reject president’s security adviser as head of State Supreme Audit

HPC prosecutor denies proof of ties with former communist State Security bodies

First Japanese language lab set up in Albania

Transport operators handle less freight, more passengers

Drug trafficking to regional neighbors persists

Transparency International: Albania leads perceptions for the region’s most corrupt

Protests force authorities to back off from HPP, oil search plans at protected areas

Albania remains ‘moderately free’ as it climbs 13 steps in economic freedom

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