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

9 mins read

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

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

6 months ago

7 mins read

New confidence drop downplays Albania’s decade-high GDP growth

Business & Economy

TIRANA, Jan. 7 – Business and consumer confidence dropped for the third quarter in a row in late 2018, signaling that the decade-high growth of around 4.2 percent that Albania is estimated

8 years ago

3 mins read

University student protests return despite gov’t promises for improvement

News

TIRANA, Dec. 7 – Public university students have resumed protesting to have their economic and academic demands met, thus marking a full-month’s boycott of university halls. Although their numbers have significantly dropped

8 years ago

2 mins read

Albania oil workers redundant again as failed ARMO privatization saga continues

Business & Economy·Premium

TIRANA, Jan. 7 – Hundreds of workers at Albania’s sole major oil refiner have temporarily remained jobless in a repeated scenario in the past decade following a failed privatization of the Armo

8 years ago

4 mins read

BoA emergency purchases of €170 mln not enough to stop euro’s free fall

Business & Economy·Premium

By Ervin Lisaku TIRANA, Jan. 7 – Albania’s central bank says it purchased around €170 million from the local currency exchange market in the second half of 2018, but its temporary emergency

8 years ago

7 mins read

Albanian President partly decrees gov’t changes in new PM-President clash

News

TIRANA, Jan. 5 – A day after Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama officially submitted the changes that reshuffled the Socialist-led government at the end of December, the country’s President Ilir Meta decided

8 years ago

2 mins read

Outgoing Albanian minister initiates new €59 mln concession after tax haven scandal

Business & Economy·News·Premium

TIRANA, Jan. 3 – Albania’s outgoing energy minister has initiated tender procedures for another big concession only few weeks after a scandal with an offshore tax haven that had €30 million in

8 years ago

10 mins read

PM Rama reshuffles Albanian government

News

TIRANA, Dec. 28 – Prime Minister Edi Rama announced substantial changes to the country’s governing body on Friday morning during the Socialist Party Assembly, ousting seven ministers and replacing them with names

8 years ago

4 mins read

Albania expels Iranian Ambassador under terrorism concerns

News·Premium

TIRANA, Dec. 20 – On Wednesday evening, local media reported Albania declared the Ambassador of the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran and one more diplomat as persona non-gratae, under suspicion

8 years ago

4 mins read

Thieves of state: how to get away with stealing 30 million euros

News

2018’s biggest scandal of money laundering and corruption The Albanian Road Authority (ARA) announced on Dec. 7 it decided to suspend the construction activity of companies Biba X and DH Albania for

8 years ago

6 mins read

Scanderbeg of the Albanians

In-depth·Op-Ed·Premium

The following text is an abstract from the prepared remarks of Altin Zaloshnja, a scholar and community leader, during the January 2018 symposium, in Michigan, commemorating the 550th anniversary of Scanderbeg’s death.

8 years ago

24 mins read

Women in business face hardships

Culture·Features·Special

Even though women in Albania makeup half of the entire population, their path to entrepreneurship and business faces hardships. An investigative piece by Mimoza in the Voice of America Balkans inspects some

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

New confidence drop downplays Albania’s decade-high GDP growth

University student protests return despite gov’t promises for improvement

Albania oil workers redundant again as failed ARMO privatization saga continues

BoA emergency purchases of €170 mln not enough to stop euro’s free fall

Albanian President partly decrees gov’t changes in new PM-President clash

Outgoing Albanian minister initiates new €59 mln concession after tax haven scandal

PM Rama reshuffles Albanian government

Albania expels Iranian Ambassador under terrorism concerns

Thieves of state: how to get away with stealing 30 million euros

Scanderbeg of the Albanians

Women in business face hardships

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