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

3 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

France 2: Albania is the ‘Balkans’ Pearl’

Features

TIRANA, July 27 – A country still neglected by tourists, Albania is a hidden paradise facing Italy and sandwiched between Greece and Montenegro with crystal clear waters, mountain landscapes and preserved nature.

9 years ago

4 mins read

Insurance market grows by 12% in year’s first half

Business & Economy

TIRANA, June 27 – Albania’s insurance market continued growing in the first half of this year, apparently triggered by a hike in compulsory motor insurance rates, accounting for half of the market

9 years ago

2 mins read

Kadare: ‘I have waved neither the dissident, nor the conformist flag. I wrote normal literature in an abnormal country’

News·Op-Ed

Albania’s internationally renowned writer Ismail Kadare, a perennial nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature, says his works written both under communist and in the post-1990s have remained the same in content,

9 years ago

23 mins read

Government security yields remain stable

Business & Economy

TIRANA, July 25 – Yields on government securities have almost remained unchanged in the past four months following sharp fluctuations between mid-2016 and early 2017. The situation comes at a time when

9 years ago

2 mins read

France worried over wave of Albanian asylum seekers

Main·News

TIRANA, July 21 – France has expressed its concern over a rising number of Albanian asylum-seekers, asking Albanian authorities to tackle the phenomenon in the next three months. The alarm was raised

9 years ago

3 mins read

Public debt unlikely to meet 2017 63% target

Business & Economy

TIRANA, July 25 – Albania’s public debt hit a three-year low of 66.8 percent of the GDP at the end of the first half of this year, down from about 70 percent

9 years ago

4 mins read

Photo manipulation under communism confessed through Marubi collection

Culture

TIRANA, July 24 – Image manipulation in Albania is as old as the history of Albanian photography itself but retouching became a norm for more than 4 decades under communism when even

9 years ago

7 mins read

Opposition Democratic Party leader Lulzim Basha

Basha reelected DP leader with 91% of vote as critics cry foul

News

TIRANA, July 23 – Democratic Party leader Lulzim Basha has won a landslide election within the party to keep his seat as opposition leader a month after the DP suffered the worst

9 years ago

1 min read

Ilir Meta sworn in as Albania’s new president

Main

TIRANA, July 24 – Ilir Meta has been sworn in as Albania’s new president at a ceremony held Monday in Tirana. At 48, Meta becomes Albania’s youngest post-WWII president, but he has

9 years ago

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Albanian director’s ‘Daybreak’ picked to make world premiere at Sarajevo Film Festival

Culture·Free to Read

TIRANA, July 24 – “Daybreak,” an Albanian drama about moral compromises, has been selected to make its world premiere at the upcoming Sarajevo Film Festival, one of the leading movie events in

9 years ago

2 mins read

Tirana mayor selected among world’s top 40 innovative local leaders

News

TIRANA, July 21 – Tirana Mayor Erion Veliaj has been picked as one of the world’s top 40 mayors to launch to “Bloomberg-Harvard City Leadership Initiative” recently held in New York under

9 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

France 2: Albania is the ‘Balkans’ Pearl’

Insurance market grows by 12% in year’s first half

Kadare: ‘I have waved neither the dissident, nor the conformist flag. I wrote normal literature in an abnormal country’

Government security yields remain stable

France worried over wave of Albanian asylum seekers

Public debt unlikely to meet 2017 63% target

Photo manipulation under communism confessed through Marubi collection

Basha reelected DP leader with 91% of vote as critics cry foul

Ilir Meta sworn in as Albania’s new president

Albanian director’s ‘Daybreak’ picked to make world premiere at Sarajevo Film Festival

Tirana mayor selected among world’s top 40 innovative local leaders

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