By Marko Čadež As of 1 March this year, citizens of Serbia, Albania and North Macedonia will FINALLY be able to live and work in any of the three countries as in
If Albania needed a sign that the European Union is still serious about its enlargement in the Western Balkans, it has received it in a special way: College of Europe, a renowned
The virtual Thematic Event on Road Safety, organized by the EU-funded Twinning Project “Strengthening the capacity of the Albanian Road Authority in applying good governance practices for planning, managing, procuring, implementing and
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Brian Williams, the UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative in Albania, speaks at an event to mark Albania’s 60 years of UN membership. (Photo: UNDP Albania)
By BRIAN J. WILLIAMS* UN Resident Coordinator in Albania It is an honor to be here today to mark the 60th anniversary of Albania’s membership to the UN. I have just arrived
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At the largest border crossing with Greece, Kakavija, police said they detained 23 foreign nationals who had illegally crossed into Albania in the past two weeks. (Photo: Archives)
TIRANA, Dec. 16 – Police officials at Albania’s southern border with Greece say a trickle of refugees trying to transit to northern Europe from Greece through Albania has continued, but the feared
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U.S. Ambassador Donald Lu speaks at an event in Tirana earlier this year. (Photo: U.S. Embassy/Facebook)
By U.S. Ambassador DONALD LU* Fifteen years ago an American judge from California visited China. During a lunch with judges, a young, Chinese judge asked her American counterpart, “What do you
TIRANA, Dec. 13 – Albania will face France, Switzerland and Romania in Group A of the Euro 2016 in a bid to make another surprise campaign after a historic qualification as an
TIRANA, Dec. 11 – Albania’s Skenderbeu ended their Europa League campaign with a 3-0 home defeat against Russia’s Lokomotiv Moscow, finishing bottom in Group H, but making history as the first Albanian
TIRANA, Dec. 7 – Archbishop Rrok Mirdita, the ethnic Albanian priest from New York who became the first leader of Albanian Catholics after the fall of communism, has died at a Tirana
TIRANA, Dec. 9 – Food prices hit a four-year high of 6 percent in Nov. 2015 apparently fuelled by the nationwide campaign against informality which has sparked a moderate price increase due
TIRANA, Dec. 10 – Albania’s winning project for the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale, “I Have Left You the Mountain” is a pavilion, a publication, a public program and a record, UK-based Leah
TIRANA, Dec. 10 – Prestigious French newspaper Le Figaro has announced Albania as one of the top five global destinations for 2016. Featuring a picture of the ancient Rozafa castle in the
TIRANA, Dec. 9 – Fuel prices in Albania will likely rise, following an announcement that the Albanian government has decided to increase licence fees on fuel and gas stations by a staggering
TIRANA, Dec. 1 – Italy’s Snam has joined the Trans Adriatic Pipeline after acquiring a 20 percent from Norway’s Statoil in the project bringing Caspian gas to Europe. Statoil, which was one