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

4 days 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

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

Ongoing heatwave negatively impacting Albania, region

Main·News

TIRANA, July 24, 2024 – A scorching heatwave has gripped Albania and southern Europe this month, affecting daily life and businesses across the country. Health concerns for the most vulnerable, a series

2 years ago

5 mins read

More than 213,000 Albanians gained EU citizenship in past five years, EU data shows

Main·News

TIRANA, July 21, 2024 – People born in Albania are seeking and acquiring citizenships in EU member states at a level that is higher than any other country in the continent, and

2 years ago

3 mins read

EU agriculture funds for Albania suspended indefinitely following misuse investigation, ministry tells parliament

Business & Economy·News

TIRANA, July 21, 2024 – About 112 millions of euros aimed at helping Albanian farmers prepare for being part of the European Union have been suspended indefinitely due to prior misuse of

2 years ago

4 mins read

Bank of Albania shifts policy, cutting key rate by 0.25% to 3%

Business & Economy

TIRANA, July 4, 2024 – The Bank of Albania has shifted direction for the first time since March 2022, easing its monetary policy by reducing the key interest rate by 0.25 percentage

2 years ago

2 mins read

Analysis: Bells toll for Albania’s demographics as census results confirm corrosive effects of massive emigration

Features·Main·News·Op-Ed

TIRANA, July 4, 2024 – The much anticipated and much delayed results of the 2023 Census are out in Albania, confirming a massive population decline in 12 years and a worsening of

2 years ago

5 mins read

Ilir Beqaj, high Socialist official mired in corruption investigations, arrested for abuse of EU funds

Main·News

TIRANA, July 4, 2024 – Ilir Beqaj, Albania’s former minister of health who has a history of holding important position in the ruling Socialist Party, was arrested Thursday on suspicion of involvement

2 years ago

2 mins read

Op/Ed: A lesson for a new world politics

Op-Ed

The UN has recognized the Srebrenica massacre as genocide by a majority vote. With this decision, the international community gives a warning signal against any form of genocide. And the role of

2 years ago

22 mins read

A phone call not every writer wants

Books

By Kristoffer Leandoer Every year he waits in vain by the phone on this very day, and a whole nation waits with him. Every year the Albanian people are equally surprised that Ismail

2 years ago

11 mins read

Chronicles and Fragments

Books·Culture

The novels of Ismail Kadare. By James Wood Like Trieste or Lvov, the medieval city of Gjirokastër, in southern Albania, has passed its history beneath a sign perpetually rewritten, in different hands, but

2 years ago

29 mins read

Interview, Ismail Kadare: All Totalitarian Regimes Are Mad

Op-Ed

May 31, 2008 Ismail Kadare wrote for decades under Enver Hoxha’s brutal communist regime in Albania, was suspected of spying and threatened with punishment for subversive writing. Despite all this, at 72

2 years ago

9 mins read

Obituary: Ismail Kadare, global literary titan who helped ‘making Albania’

Culture·Features·News

TIRANA, June 1, 2024 – Albania’s greatest writer and perennial Nobel Prize candidate, Ismail Kadare, has died at the age of 88. Kadare had permanently moved back to his homeland of Albania

2 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

Ongoing heatwave negatively impacting Albania, region

More than 213,000 Albanians gained EU citizenship in past five years, EU data shows

EU agriculture funds for Albania suspended indefinitely following misuse investigation, ministry tells parliament

Bank of Albania shifts policy, cutting key rate by 0.25% to 3%

Analysis: Bells toll for Albania’s demographics as census results confirm corrosive effects of massive emigration

Ilir Beqaj, high Socialist official mired in corruption investigations, arrested for abuse of EU funds

Op/Ed: A lesson for a new world politics

A phone call not every writer wants

Chronicles and Fragments

Interview, Ismail Kadare: All Totalitarian Regimes Are Mad

Obituary: Ismail Kadare, global literary titan who helped ‘making Albania’

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