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 months 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

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

9 months ago

7 mins read

Year-end oil sales of €45 mln save 2016 budget from new cut

Business & Economy·Premium

TIRANA, Jan. 4 – The Albanian government collected about €45 million from the sale of some 167,000 metric tons of crude oil last December in a much-needed operation as oil prices slightly

10 years ago

3 mins read

Shkelzen Doli brings Vienna New Year atmosphere to Tirana

Culture

TIRANA, Jan. 3 – Performing the famous Strauss ‘Blue Danube’ waltz, Austrian artists wore Albanian traditional hats and drank raki alcoholic drinks in their debut Tirana concert with Shkelzen Doli, an Albanian-Kosovo

10 years ago

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Two MPs, Kavaja Mayor become first decriminalization victims

News

TIRANA, Dec. 29 – Albania’s Central Election Commission has ruled to strip three elected officials of their mandates over hiding their criminal past in declarations made earlier in 2016 as part of

10 years ago

2 mins read

CEZ affair: Albania bought EU candidate status for €479 mln?

Main·News·Premium

TIRANA, Dec. 29 – Prime Minister Edi Rama has for the first time admitted Albania feared a Czech Republic veto over the country’s 2014 EU candidate status bid in settling a controversial

10 years ago

5 mins read

Mavraj moves to Hamburger in mission to save club from first-ever relegation

Sport

TIRANA, Dec. 28 – Albania’s international center back Mergim Mavraj has moved to Hamburger from Cologne on a two-and-a-half-year deal for a €1.8 million fee in a surprise move as the defender

10 years ago

2 mins read

Explore Albania! But how?

Op-Ed·Premium

By Alan Andoni* Albanians are quite rightly proud of their country’s beaches and mountains. Albania’s politicians have underlined the potential of tourism that would not only bring in badly-needed foreign capital

10 years ago

7 mins read

Pre-electoral tender on new €100 mln medical lab PPP sparks outcry

Business & Economy·News·Premium

TIRANA, Dec. 26 – Plans to award a new costly concession of about €100 million in the public health sector next February, only four months ahead of the upcoming June general elections,

10 years ago

5 mins read

Village residents go on hunger strike over damage from alleged earthquake-like drilling explosions

Business & Economy

TIRANA, Dec. 26 – Ten residents of the Zharrez village in the southwestern district of Fier, have been staging a huger strike since the evening of Dec. 20 protesting what they say

10 years ago

4 mins read

Ex-American Idol contestant picked as Albania’s Eurovision representative

Culture

TIRANA, Dec. 26 – U.S.-based Kosovo singer Linda Halimi has been voted to represent Albania at the 2017 Ukraine Eurovision song contest. The 27-year-old singer, a 2016 American Idol contestant, had been

10 years ago

2 mins read

Partizani beats Skenderbeu to keep alive decades-long title hopes

Sport

TIRANA, Dec. 23 – Partizani came from behind to beat reigning champions Skenderbeu 2-1 in a priceless victory to keep their title hopes alive and narrow their gap with Superliga leaders Kukes

10 years ago

3 mins read

Constitutional Court green-lights vetting law

News·Premium

TIRANA, Dec. 22 – Albania’s Constitutional Court has given its seal of approval to the vetting law in a six to two vote. The vote opens the way for the justice reform

10 years ago

2 mins read

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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

Year-end oil sales of €45 mln save 2016 budget from new cut

Shkelzen Doli brings Vienna New Year atmosphere to Tirana

Two MPs, Kavaja Mayor become first decriminalization victims

CEZ affair: Albania bought EU candidate status for €479 mln?

Mavraj moves to Hamburger in mission to save club from first-ever relegation

Explore Albania! But how?

Pre-electoral tender on new €100 mln medical lab PPP sparks outcry

Village residents go on hunger strike over damage from alleged earthquake-like drilling explosions

Ex-American Idol contestant picked as Albania’s Eurovision representative

Partizani beats Skenderbeu to keep alive decades-long title hopes

Constitutional Court green-lights vetting law

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