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

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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

9 months ago

7 mins read

The Albanian parliament, Kuvendi (Photo: Archives)

Fairness of current closed-list electoral system debated

News

TIRANA, Oct. 20 – Ahead of a meeting of the Special Committee on Electoral Reform, representatives of the Socialist Movement for Integration have announced they plan to recommend an open-list electoral system

10 years ago

4 mins read

Rama and Vucic speak at an event in Belgrade. (Photo: GoA)

PM’s Belgrade visit stirs debate, uneasiness over Kosovo comments

Main·News·Region

TIRANA, Oct. 20 – Prime Minister Edi Rama’s comments in Belgrade last week have led to debate in Albania and Kosovo, with critics accusing the Albanian prime minister of speaking on behalf

10 years ago

4 mins read

EU data shows number of Albanian asylum seekers rose again in 2015

News

TIRANA, Oct. 20 – Albania continues to be among the major contributors to the overall flow of asylum seekers into the European Union, Switzerland and Norway, according to a Pew Research Center

10 years ago

3 mins read

Civil society activists establish new party

News

TIRANA, Oct. 19 – Civil society activists and a group that ran an independent campaign in the Tirana mayoral elections have created a new national party — Sfida per Shqiperine. (Challenge for

10 years ago

1 min read

Police seize 1.3 tons of marijuana

News

TIRANA, Oct. 19 – Police said this week they have seized 1.3 tons of cannabis that had been recently harvested near the towns of Kruje and Fushe Kruje. The Rapid Reaction Police

10 years ago

1 min read

President Bujar Nishani said he has a difficult relationship with the majority ruling, in particular in what he sees as the government trying to increase the executive's influence in the judiciary.

President tells parliament to dump waste bill, PM indicates veto override

Main·News

TIRANA, Oct. 19 – President Bujar Nishani has vetoed a bill allowing Albanian companies to import waste for recycling, following protests and environmentalists’ concerns that it may allow Albania to become Europe’s

10 years ago

6 mins read

Energy Community warns of sanctions against Serbia over Kosovo interconnection dispute

Business & Economy·Region

TIRANA, Oct. 18 – The Vienna-based Energy Community Secretariat, an international organization dealing with energy policy, has warned of sanctions against Serbia in case it does not settle its transmission grid dispute

10 years ago

2 mins read

Cooperatives can boost ailing agriculture sector, study shows

Business & Economy

TIRANA, Oct. 18 – Only a couple of months before the June 2013 general elections, farmers in a village of Lushnje area, some 90 km south of Tirana, decided to boycott the

10 years ago

7 mins read

Justice and defense ministers at odds over ‘bring in the army to fight cannabis’ comment

News

TIRANA, Oct. 19 – To answer public concern over perceived impunity for marijuana growers and traffickers, the country’s armed forces could be used in the fight if necessary, Albania’s justice minister said

10 years ago

1 min read

Maternity hospital director resigns after deaths of mother and child

News

TIRANA, Oct. 18 – Rubena Moisiu, the head of Tirana’s largest maternity hospital, has resigned a week after an expecting mother and the newborn died at the hospital’s emergency wing. Family members

10 years ago

1 min read

De Biasi: We will fight to the end of World Cup qualifiers

Free to Read·Sport

TIRANA, Oct. 18 – Albania’s Italian coach Gianni De Biasi says the national side will fight to the end in its Group G World Cup qualifiers, but is quite realistic when it

10 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

Fairness of current closed-list electoral system debated

PM’s Belgrade visit stirs debate, uneasiness over Kosovo comments

EU data shows number of Albanian asylum seekers rose again in 2015

Civil society activists establish new party

Police seize 1.3 tons of marijuana

President tells parliament to dump waste bill, PM indicates veto override

Energy Community warns of sanctions against Serbia over Kosovo interconnection dispute

Cooperatives can boost ailing agriculture sector, study shows

Justice and defense ministers at odds over ‘bring in the army to fight cannabis’ comment

Maternity hospital director resigns after deaths of mother and child

De Biasi: We will fight to the end of World Cup qualifiers

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