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

1 week 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

1 month ago

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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

The mirage of the European integration from the Albanian filibuster political transition

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By Dr. Taulant Hasa[1] Introduction 26 years ago, Albania was accepted as the 35th member of the Council of Europe. Back then, the atmosphere was a celebration day. Tens of cars flagging

5 years ago

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The East and the West of Europe still do not understand one another

Op-Ed

Michel Louyot is a French writer. Lectured literature, and then worked as cultural attaché in Central Europe and Far East. Author of À pas de velours : mes missions culturelles dans l’autre

5 years ago

2 mins read

Polish history: The Fake Coup

Features·Op-Ed

By JAN ROKITA* For the Poles, those eight years started by the fake coup of 13 December, the darkest hours in the lives of the previous generation. Not only was it time

5 years ago

6 mins read

Analysis: Future uncertain for DP as parallel assemblies strive for control

Main·News

TIRANA, Dec. 11 – Delegates representing a large portion of Albania’s Democratic Party convened in an assembly Saturday, voting to sack the party’s incumbent leadership and approving changes to the party’s constitution.

5 years ago

9 mins read

Albania moves to mandates as vaccination rates remain low

Main·News

TIRANA, Dec. 6 – Albania is making vaccines against COVID-19 mandatory for certain groups, including public administration and service sector employees, government officials said this week. The government’s Technical Committee of Experts

5 years ago

2 mins read

Albania’s Economy – 30 Years After

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By Franz-Lothar Altmann Since its start as an independent sovereign state Albania has tried several different models of how to organize the state. With the Declaration of Independence in 1912 the Great

5 years ago

12 mins read

Editorial: Telefonyi Zakon and Thoma Gellci, ‘the felon’

Editorial·Features·Op-Ed

By ALBERT RAKIPI The outdated Russian term Telefonyi Zakon or the so-called Rule of Telephone law, refers to “a practice by which outcomes of legal cases allegedly come from orders issued over

5 years ago

14 mins read

Former Velipoja mayor and MP gunned down

News

TIRANA, Nov. 30 – Pashko Ujka, a former member of the Albanian parliament who also served as mayor of Velipoja from 2011 to 2015, has been killed — shot in the back

5 years ago

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Albania, Kosovo plan to remove border stops

News

ELBASAN, Nov. 27 – Albania and Kosovo will remove the hard border checks currently in place and allow traffic to flow freely, officials at a joint government meeting of the two countries

5 years ago

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Climate change hurting Albania’s aromatic plants, vital to economy of rural areas, exports

Business & Economy·Main

TIRANA, Nov. 29 – Drought and fires seen this year across Albania have damaged wild plants collected for their medicinal and aromatic properties, bringing hardship to hundreds of families who make a

5 years ago

3 mins read

Op/Ed: On the Ramiz Alia* model and the Democratic Party

Op-Ed

By Genc Pollo On 31 March 1991, four months after the founding of the first opposition party, the Democratic Party, the first pluralistic parliamentary elections since the 1940s took place in the

5 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

The mirage of the European integration from the Albanian filibuster political transition

The East and the West of Europe still do not understand one another

Polish history: The Fake Coup

Analysis: Future uncertain for DP as parallel assemblies strive for control

Albania moves to mandates as vaccination rates remain low

Albania’s Economy – 30 Years After

Editorial: Telefonyi Zakon and Thoma Gellci, ‘the felon’

Former Velipoja mayor and MP gunned down

Albania, Kosovo plan to remove border stops

Climate change hurting Albania’s aromatic plants, vital to economy of rural areas, exports

Op/Ed: On the Ramiz Alia* model and the Democratic Party

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