By Ervin Lisaku TIRANA, Dec. 22 – Albania is heading to 2017 with mixed expectations about a further economic recovery with almost all attention on politics as the country prepares to elect a new president and hold general elections by
TIRANA, Dec. 21 – Italian 20th century masterpieces will be featured in Tirana next January at a special exhibition from the collection of Rome’s Modern Art Gallery. “The exhibition, curated by Arianna Angelelli, Maria Catalano and Federica Pirani presents the
TIRANA, Dec. 22 – More than forty Albanian and international artists are participating in this year’s traditional Onufri exhibition, Albania’s most important traditional visual art event in the past two decades, which this edition has been dedicated to Mitrush Kuteli,
TIRANA, Dec. 22 – Albania-born, New York-raised ballet dancer Spartak Hoxha has been nominated for the prestigious Clive Barnes Awards handed each year to talented young dance and theatre professionals. The 25-year-old Albanian dancer, who has been a member of
TIRANA, Dec. 21 – In 1990 when Albania’s communist regime was collapsing, then-22-year old Kasem Hoxha was one of the hundreds of Albanians who entered the facilities of the German embassy to escape the country’s authorities. More than two decades
TIRANA, Dec. 22 – Albania will select on Friday its Eurovision representative for next year’s Ukraine song contest. Twenty-four entries by mostly emerging singers are competing in this year’s 55th edition of the national song competition, serving as a platform
TIRANA, Dec. 21 – Albania’s part of lake Ohrid could join that of neighboring Macedonia as a UNESCO World Heritage site in the next couple of years as authorities have stepped up efforts to protect the Pogradec Lake in southeastern
TIRANA, Dec. 20 – The upcoming June 18 general elections have been rated as the key threat to Albania’s public finances for 2017, according to an Open Society Foundation for Albania (OSFA) report analyzing the 2017 draft budget approved last
TIRANA, Dec. 21 – Yields on government securities have more than doubled in the past six months despite the key rate standing at a historic low of 1.25 percent, reflecting higher government demand for internal borrowing and lower interest by
TIRANA, Dec. 19 – The declared wealth of Court of Appeal judges has increased fivefold in the last decade, amounting to nearly $17 million, according to an investigation conducted by Voice of America in collaboration with Balkan Investigative Network (BIRN).
