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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

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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

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

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Reports that UK aims to use Albania as migrant holding center stirs anger in Tirana, FM says ‘fake news’

News

TIRANA, Oct 4 – The United Kingdom aims use Albania as a holding place for migrants caught crossing the British Channel in small boats from France in a new asylum crackdown, according to

5 years ago

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Preparing Albanians for large cost of life increases, PM warns of winter ‘energy crisis’

Business & Economy·Main

TIRANA, Oct. 4 – Albania’s prime minister, Edi Rama, has made a surprise and dire prediction — that the country is headed into a massive energy crisis this winter — at a

5 years ago

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The Doshi affair doomed the joint resolution as Democratic Party MP Aldo Bumci insisted that the statement could not be general and should refer to the Doshi case by name. (Offices of the Albanian Parliament)

DP seeks parliamentary inquiries on Apr. 25 elections, waste incinerators, Becchetti affair

Main

TIRANA, Oct. 1 – Albania’s main opposition Democratic Party has officially requested the establishment of a parliamentary commission to investigate alleged wrongdoings during the general elections held on Apr. 25. DP has

5 years ago

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Dubai salutes the future world in a breathtaking opening ceremony for Expo 2020

Features·Op-Ed

Alba Cela- Editor ‘Scheherazade’s 1001 nights’ met Virtual Reality in a show jam-packed with astonishing visuals and exquisite music for the kick off spectacle for the Dubai Expo 2020. For 90 captivating

5 years ago

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Foreign and diaspora buyers contributing to increase in real estate prices, experts note

Business & Economy

TIRANA, Sept. 28 – About one in three real estate properties sold in Albania in the first half of 2021 were purchased by people who don’t live in the country, according to

5 years ago

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EC president starts WB reassurance tour in Tirana

News

TIRANA, Sept. 28 – European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is in Albania at the start of a Western Balkans tour, in which she is expected to reassure jaded Albania and

5 years ago

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Convicted former interior minister wins retrial

News

TIRANA, Sept. 28 – Lawyers for Saimir Tahiri, Albania’s former interior minister and former high official in the ruling Socialist Party, have convinced the High Court to give him a retrial by

5 years ago

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Police officer killed at cannabis roadblock

News

TIRANA, Sept. 28 – A Lezha police officer, Saimir Hoxha, has been killed while checking in on a suspected marijuana route in the Vain region. He was part of a police roadblock

5 years ago

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Albanian PM in Kosovo as tensions rise, Serbia threatens military intervention

Main·News·Region

PRISHTINA, Sept. 27 – Tensions continue to be high at Kosovo’s northern border with Serbia, where a row over vehicle licence plates has led to border closures, ethnic Serb protests, torched Kosovo

5 years ago

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Albania – Kosovo How to Build a Strategic Agenda

Op-Ed

By ALBERT RAKIPI, PhD The article below was first published on Feb. 26, 2020 in the Tirana Observatory, a quarterly journal of foreign policy and international relations by the Albanian Institute for

5 years ago

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Karabakh region of Azerbaijan a year after the 44-day war

Op-Ed

By Anar Huseynov, Ambassador of the Republic of Azerbaijan Today is a first anniversary since Armenia unleashed the 44-day war against Azerbaijan. In September 2020, Armenia launched a large-scale military attack on

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

Reports that UK aims to use Albania as migrant holding center stirs anger in Tirana, FM says ‘fake news’

Preparing Albanians for large cost of life increases, PM warns of winter ‘energy crisis’

DP seeks parliamentary inquiries on Apr. 25 elections, waste incinerators, Becchetti affair

Dubai salutes the future world in a breathtaking opening ceremony for Expo 2020

Foreign and diaspora buyers contributing to increase in real estate prices, experts note

EC president starts WB reassurance tour in Tirana

Convicted former interior minister wins retrial

Police officer killed at cannabis roadblock

Albanian PM in Kosovo as tensions rise, Serbia threatens military intervention

Albania – Kosovo How to Build a Strategic Agenda

Karabakh region of Azerbaijan a year after the 44-day war

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