TIRANA, Dec. 7 – Central and local government arrears have re-emerged as a risk to the country’s public finances after some €500 million was cleared in 2015 in payments to private sector companies contracted for public works under a two-year
TIRANA, Nov. 30 – Identifying potential markets and buyers is the most problematic factor for Albanian exporters who have been hit by a sharp cut in international commodity prices affecting the country’s poorly diversified exports, according to a survey conducted
TIRANA, Dec. 1 – The Socialist Movement for Integration, the junior ally of the ruling Socialist Party, has officially opposed plans to impose an excise rate on vehicle liquefied natural gas, saying the new tax would affect thousands of households
TIRANA, Nov. 30 – Behind political rhetoric of excellent economic cooperation with Kosovo, trade exchanges between the two countries are almost the same compared to Albania’s trade volume with Serbia and only half of what Kosovo imports from Serbia. While
TIRANA, Nov. 30 – President Bujar Nishani is considering returning to Albanian politics following the end of his mandate, he said in television interview this week. President Nishani said he would seek a second term if there was a serious
TIRANA, Dec. 1 – Albania’s main opposition Democratic Party believes that the highly debated vetting bill sent for review at the Venice Commission has not been translated accurately. Therefore, it plans to ask the Constitutional Court to seek a new
By Jerina Zaloshnja At seven in the morning, on the third Tuesday in September of the year 2003, weighed down with some bags and all kinds of suitcases, I placed my foot on the threshold of our new apartment in
BERLIN, Nov. 28 – Five conditions that Albania must meet to continue EU accession negotiation talks still stand, and the negotiations would not open until after elections in Germany and Albania take place next year, German Chancellor Angela Merkel indicated
TIRANA, Nov. 29 – With only a month to go before a law disciplining gambling in downtown areas become effective and few months before the mid-2017 general elections, several ruling majority MPs have proposed some amendments that postpone the law’s
TIRANA, Nov. 28 – Legal changes initiated by the Italian Parliament risk putting at risk the booming call center industry in Albania, one of the country’s key employers in recent years with a huge impact on tackling high youth jobless
